--- schema: foundry-doc-v1 content_type: topic title: "PointSav encyclopedia — glossary and lexicon" slug: glossary-documentation short_description: "A canonical A-to-Z lexicon bridging standard industry terminology with PointSav platform concepts, providing authoritative definitions across technical, operational, and financial domains." category: reference status: complete bcsc_class: public-disclosure-safe last_edited: 2026-05-25 editor: project-language Task --- This lexicon provides canonical definitions for PointSav platform terms, bridging standard industry vocabulary with the platform's architectural concepts. Each entry defines a term as used in platform documentation, with disambiguation notes and cross-references where relevant. For the [[language-protocol-substrate|language protocol]] that governs which terms are canonical across all three wikis, and for [[editorial-language-registers|register rules]] that govern how terms are translated between audiences, see those articles.
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### Administration Panel or System Administrator or Control Panel or System Preferences In PointSav, system administration is performed through the os-console command ledger and MBA-authenticated web interfaces; no single-point administration panel exists — every privileged action is a signed, auditable transaction. - **Administration Suite** ### AEC Community *Comunidad AEC* Architecture, Engineering, and Construction community, a key target audience for PointSav's digital twin and building management technologies. - **AI Bots** - **Alfred P. Sloan** - **Apache Web Server** - **App – Building ID** - **App – Community** - **Applications** - **App – Workplace OS** ### Artificial Intelligence or AI *Inteligencia Artificial (IA)* The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. - **Assignments** ### Audience Data Audience data describes the characteristics and preferences of a communication's intended recipients; in PointSav, it is derived from service-people identity records and service-content gravity scores, never from external data brokers. - **Audit Trail** - **Authentication** ## B
- **Backup** - **Bare Metal Resources** - **Berkeley Software Distribution or FreeBSD** - **Big Tech or Big Tech Ecosystem or Ring Fence** ### Blockchain *Cadena de Bloques* A system in which a record of transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network. ### Book-Entry *Anotación en Cuenta* Electronic registration. - **Bootable Disk Image** ### Building Connectivity *Conectividad del Edificio* Future-focused tech integration. - **Building Router** ### Business Administration *Administración de Empresas* The process of managing a business or non-profit organization, so that it remains stable and continues to grow. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising business operations. - **Business Software** - **Buying Program** ## C
### Cascading Style Sheet or CSS *Hojas de Estilo en Cascada* A style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. ### CCTV Data Collection CCTV data collection refers to the ingestion of video surveillance feeds; in a PointSav deployment, such streams enter through the os-totebox secure ingestion boundary under the six-tier sovereignty matrix and are never routed through the public internet. - **Chart of Accounts** ### Cloud Computing *Computación en la Nube* The delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet ("the cloud") to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. > **2030 Platform Context:** Addressed by PointSav's Sovereign Infrastructure to eliminate vendor lock-in and structural dependency (Technofeudalism). - **Collaborators** - **Command Line Interface** - **Commits** - **Community Members** - **Configuration** ### Console OS *SO de Consola* A lightweight, terminal-based operating system for managing and interacting with PointSav services and infrastructure. - **Console OS – BIM** - **Console OS – Building Preferences** - **Console OS – F*Keys** - **Console OS – Input Machine** - **Console OS – Maps** - **Console OS – Marketplace** ### Console OS – Systems Administrator The ConsoleOS systems administrator is the Tier A operator who manages network policy, package signing, and identity provisioning on the os-console layer, working exclusively through the F12-gated command terminal. - **Contact Us** ### Container *Contenedor* A standard unit of software that packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries and settings. - **Container Orchestration – OS Level Virtualization** - **Container Orchestration – Platform for Containerized APPs** - **Content Creation** ### Content Management System (CMS) A CMS manages creation and publication of digital content; in PointSav, this function is performed by the combination of service-content (gravity engine) and app-mediakit-knowledge (wiki renderer), eliminating a traditional CMS dependency. - **Contributors** - **Cookies** - **Cookies Notification** - **Cookies Preferences** - **Creative Design** - **Customer Relationship Management (CRM)** - **Customers** ## D
### Data Entry Data entry is the manual input of structured information into a system; in PointSav, all data writes by AI components are prohibited — only deterministic, human-verified writes reach the knowledge graph per SYS-ADR-07. ### Data Migration Data migration is the transfer of data between storage systems or formats; in PointSav, migrations are handled by service-content's deterministic ingestion pipeline and subject to the worm-ledger-design append-only guarantee. ### Decentralized Network A decentralized network distributes functions and data across multiple nodes without a single controlling authority; PointSav implements this as a sovereign mesh topology with deterministic routing and cryptographic anchoring in os-infrastructure. ### Design System A design system is a collection of reusable components, tokens, and documented patterns that standardize a product's visual and interactive language; PointSav's implementation is pointsav-design-system, a DTCG-format vault delivered as a Git repository. ### Design System Components Design system components are the individual reusable UI building blocks — buttons, navigation bars, form inputs — documented in pointsav-design-system/components/ with HTML+CSS+ARIA recipes and token references. - **Device-based Permissions** ### DevOps *DevOps* A set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary with Agile software development; several DevOps aspects came from Agile methodology. ### Digital Transformation *Transformación Digital* The process of using digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements. ### Digital Twin *Gemelo Digital* A virtual model designed to accurately reflect a physical object. In the context of PointSav, it refers to a digital replica of a building or other physical asset. - **Disclaimer** ### Distributed Network A distributed network spreads computation and storage across many nodes, each capable of independent operation; PointSav's fleet implements this through os-orchestration coordinating multiple ToteboxOS archives. ### Docker *Docker* A set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels. - **Documentation** - **Downstream** ## E
- **e-Commerce** - **Economic Model** - **Edge Computing** - **Enterprise** - **Enterprise Resource Management (ERP)** - **Enterprise User** - **es in a Totebox Archive using Tantivy. Operates without a running database engine — the index is static and binary and can be searched on an air-gapped machine. Satisfies DARP compliance: data must be searchable without proprietary software.** - **.EXE** ## F
### File System A file system organizes and stores files on a storage medium; in PointSav, the sovereign file system is managed by os-totebox under WORM-ledger constraints, with os-mediakit providing the public-facing document store. - **.FIN** - **Financial Community** ### First-party Data First-party data is information collected directly from users by the organization that will use it; in PointSav, it enters through service-content's authenticated ingestion endpoints and is stored in the sovereign ToteboxOS archive. - **Fog Computing** - **Fork** - **Freely Transferable** - **FreshRSS** ## G
- **Gamification** - **Geometric Security** - **Geo-Spatial** ### GitHub *GitHub* A provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own features. - **GitHub – PointSav** - **GitHub – WCP** - **Graphic Design** ## H
### HTML *HTML* HyperText Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. ## I
### Information Technology *Information Technology* Required for reliable operations. ### Infrastructure OS *SO de Infraestructura* The underlying operating system for managing hardware and network resources, providing a stable foundation for other PointSav services. - **Installation Guide** - **IoT Connect** - **IoT Device Providers** ### IoT Devices *Dispositivos de IoT* Physical devices that connect to the internet to collect and share data. In the PointSav ecosystem, this includes sensors and other devices used to monitor and control building systems. - **IoT Sensors** - **IT Support** ## J
- **Jawbone** ## K
- **Key Note Slides** - **Kubernetes** ## L
- **LaTeX** - **Leased Server Resources** - **Licensing Agreement** - **Local Administrators** - **Login** - **LoRa** ## M
- **Machine Authorization** - **MAN Files or MAN.txt** - **MariaDB** - **Marketing Directory** - **Markup Language** - **Mark Up Language** - **Media Assets** ### MediaKit OS *SO de MediaKit* An operating system designed for managing and distributing media assets, including the PointSav design system, marketing materials, and documentation. ### MediaKit OS – Design System The MediaKit OS design system integration provides the visual component vocabulary and token layer used by os-mediakit's document and asset generation pipeline. - **MediaKit OS – Distribution** - **MediaKit OS – Hosting** - **MediaKit OS – Marketing** ### MediaKit OS – System Administration MediaKit OS system administration covers the Tier A operator functions for managing os-mediakit's document pipeline configuration, ingestion rules, and storage allocation. - **MediaKit OS – Wiki** - **MediaWiki** - **Metadata** ### Microkernel Operating System *Microkernel* An operating system architecture where the kernel is as small as possible, with most services running in user space. This can improve security and stability. - **Microservices** - **Micro Virtual Machines or Micro VM** - **Mobile Devices** ## N
- **Nano Virtual Machines or Nano VM** ### Network Admin OS *SO de Administración de Red* A specialized operating system for network administrators to manage and monitor network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and firewalls. - **Newsfeed** - **Newswire Services** ## O
- **On-prem Resources** - **Open Source** ### Operating System *Sistema Operativo* The software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals. ### OrchestrationOS *SO de Orquestación* The stateless logic and compute layer. Holds no data. Connects ConsoleOS terminals to one or more ToteboxOS archives and provides extended compute capacity for BIM rendering, GIS spatial analysis, SLM inference, and data warehouse operations. Required for multi-archive use cases — the monetisation boundary between free and proprietary tiers. ### OrchestrationOS – BIM Server *Servidor BIM de OrchestrationOS* A component of OrchestrationOS responsible for managing and processing Building Information Modeling (BIM) data. ### OrchestrationOS – Command Centre *Centro de Comando de OrchestrationOS* The central management interface for OrchestrationOS, providing a single point of control for all orchestrated services. ### OrchestrationOS – Data Engine *Motor de Datos de OrchestrationOS* The data processing and storage component of OrchestrationOS, responsible for managing large datasets and providing data analytics capabilities. ### OrchestrationOS – GIS Engine *Motor GIS de OrchestrationOS* A component of OrchestrationOS that provides Geospatial Information System (GIS) capabilities, including mapping, spatial analysis, and data visualization. - **OrchestrationOS – IoT Connect** ## P
- **P1 – Input Machine** ### P2 – System Administration / Package Manager The Tier 2 system administration and package management layer manages software installation, update verification, and signing for PointSav OS deployments below the ConsoleOS root level. - **P3 – Users** - **P4 – Interface** - **Package Manager** - **Pairing** - **Permissions** - **Personal Computer** - **Platform** - **PointSav** - **PointSav.com** - **PointSav Corporate Support Centre** ### PointSav Design System The PointSav design system is a tokenized, DTCG-format component library and token vault delivered as a Git-tracked repository, providing the visual and interactive vocabulary for all PointSav product surfaces. ### PointSav Digital Systems PointSav Digital Systems is the software vendor entity that builds and maintains the PointSav platform, publishing canonical open-source engineering repositories at github.com/pointsav under the Apache 2.0 license. - **PointSav Documentation or PointSav Documentation Wiki** - **PointSav Landing Page** ### PointSav Private Network The PointSav private network is the on-premises sovereign mesh that connects os-console terminals, os-orchestration compute, and os-totebox archives within a customer deployment, isolated from the public internet by the os-infrastructure layer. - **Privacy Policy** ### PrivateGit OS *SO de PrivateGit* An operating system for managing private Git repositories, providing a secure, self-hosted alternative to public Git hosting services. ### Private Network A private network restricts access to authorized users and devices; in PointSav, the six-tier sovereignty matrix defines which network segments are accessible at each trust tier, enforced by os-infrastructure. - **Product Design** - **Products** ### PropertyArchive *PropertyArchive* A ToteboxOS archive for a physical property. Anchored to a Land Title PIN or legal address. Contains permits, lifecycle records, BIM drawings, IoT data, lease register, and maintenance history. Replaces legacy term RealPropertyArchive. ### Property Management *Administración de Propiedades* Function of proprietary software. - **Proprietary Technology** - **.PUB** - **Public Browser Delivery** - **Public Browser Delivery – BIM** ### Public Browser Delivery – Data Marketplace Public browser delivery for the data marketplace provides browser-accessible endpoints through which external consumers purchase and retrieve licensed data assets curated by service-content. - **Public Browser Delivery – Input Machine** - **Public Browser Delivery – Maps** ### Public Cloud Traditional off-premise infrastructure. In the 2030 platform vision, this represents a structural dependency that Sovereign Infrastructure aims to mitigate. ### Public Cloud Resources Traditional off-premise infrastructure. In the 2030 platform vision, this represents a structural dependency that Sovereign Infrastructure aims to mitigate. ## R
- **README Files or README.txt** - **Real Estate Community** ### Real-Time Operating System A real-time operating system guarantees bounded response times for time-sensitive tasks; PointSav's IoT ingestion path relies on os-totebox to receive real-time streams from RTOS-equipped field devices. ### Record Keeping *Mantenimiento de Registros* Function of proprietary software. - **RSS Feeds** - **RSS Reader** ## S
- **Scaling** ### Second-party Data Second-party data is first-party data obtained through a direct partnership agreement; in PointSav, it enters through controlled service-content endpoints with explicit data-sharing contracts recorded in the sovereign ledger. - **Service Design** ### service-extraction *service-extraction* The deterministic parser service. Strips proprietary formatting from inbound payloads and routes structured data to deterministic services and unstructured text to service-slm. Assigns transaction IDs for chain-of-custody tracing. Canonical long-term name replacing the legacy working name service-parser. - **Service Providers** - **Services** ### service-search *service-search* The inverted index service. Provides rapid full-text retrieval across all files in a Totebox Archive using Tantivy. Operates without a running database engine — the index is static and binary and can be searched on an air-gapped machine. Satisfies DARP compliance: data must be searchable without proprietary software. ### Smart Building *Edificio Inteligente* A building that uses technology to automatically control its operations, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, and other systems. - **Software** - **Source Code** - **Specialty Software** - **Stakeholders** - **Subdomain** ### Surveillance Monitoring of user activity or system behaviour for security or analytical purposes. PointSav replaces third-party surveillance dependencies with zero-cookie first-party telemetry pipelines. ### System Design System design is the process of defining the architecture, components, and interfaces of a system to satisfy specified requirements; PointSav's platform design is governed by the three-ring-architecture and the six-tier sovereignty matrix. ## T
- **Tech Community** - **Technical Debt** - **Technical Lead** ### Technofeudalism A term describing structural dependency on platform providers who control access to data and services. Cited as context for the vendor lock-in problem that PointSav is designed to resolve. - **Technology Selection** - **Tenants** - **Terminal** ### Third-party Data Third-party data is collected by an entity with no direct relationship to the end user and sold commercially; PointSav evaluates all third-party data through SYS-ADR-07 and ingests approved datasets via the service-content deterministic pipeline. - **Tokens** - **Topics** - **Topic Templates** ### Totebox Archive *Archivo Totebox* A self-contained, portable, and encrypted repository for data and applications, designed for long-term storage and secure access. Each Totebox Archive is a single file that can be stored on any storage medium. - **Totebox Archive – Corporate** - **Totebox Archive – Metadata and FTP** - **Totebox Archive – Personnel** - **Totebox Archive – Property** - **Totebox Orchestration** ### Totebox OS *SO Totebox* The operating system that runs within a Totebox Archive, providing a secure environment for applications and services. It is designed to be lightweight and portable. - **Totebox OS – BIM** - **Totebox OS – Bookkeeper** - **Totebox OS – Business** - **Totebox OS – Calendar** - **Totebox OS – Chat** - **Totebox OS – Conferencing** - **Totebox OS – eMail** - **Totebox OS – FTP** ### Totebox OS – IoT Data ToteboxOS IoT data handling receives telemetry streams from connected physical devices and writes them to the WORM-secured archive, available for service-content gravity classification and os-mediakit report generation. - **Totebox OS – IoT Device Library** - **Totebox OS – IoT Sensor Library** - **Totebox OS – Minutebook** - **Totebox OS – Parking Lots** - **Totebox OS – People** - **Totebox OS – Places** - **Totebox OS – Published Work** - **Totebox OS – Research** - **Totebox OS – RSS Feed** ### Totebox Services *Servicios Totebox* A suite of applications and services that run within the Totebox OS, providing functionality such as data storage, communication, and collaboration tools. - **Type II Hypervisor** ## U
### Unikernel *Unikernel* A specialized, single-address-space machine image constructed by using library operating systems. Unikernels are often smaller and more secure than traditional operating systems. - **Upstream** - **Use Cases** - **User-centred** ### User Experience or Service Design or UX *Experiencia de Usuario (UX)* The overall experience of a person using a product such as a website or computer application, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use. - **User Guide** ### User Interface or Product Design or UI *Interfaz de Usuario (UI)* The means by which the user and a computer system interact, in particular the use of input devices and software. - **Usernames and Passwords** - **Users** ## V
- **Virtualization** ### Virtual Machine or VM *Máquina Virtual (VM)* A software-based emulation of a physical computer. It has its own operating system and can run applications independently from the host machine. ## W
- **Wallet** - **WCP Corporate Brochure or WCP Investor Presentation** - **WCP Corporate Wiki** - **WCP Landing Page** - **WCP Newsroom** - **WCP Projects Wiki** - **Web 3.0** - **What You See Is What You Get or WYSIWYG** - **White Paper Discovery Process** - **Wi-Fi** ### Windows Operating System Microsoft Windows is used by PointSav for os-workplace deployments on managed desktop hardware, with the os-workplace sovereign desktop layer providing the management and security boundary above it. - **Wireframes** - **WordPress** ### Workplace OS *SO de Workplace* A user-friendly, graphical operating system designed for everyday business-related tasks, providing a suite of productivity applications and a secure environment for users. ### Workplace OS – Browser *Navegador de Workplace OS* The web browser integrated into Workplace OS, providing secure and controlled access to the internet and internal web applications. ### Workplace OS – Calculator *Calculadora de Workplace OS* A basic calculator application included in Workplace OS for performing simple mathematical calculations. ### Workplace OS – File Manager *Gestor de Archivos de Workplace OS* The file management application in Workplace OS, used for organizing, browsing, and managing files and folders. ### Workplace OS – PDF Viewer *Visor de PDF de Workplace OS* An application for viewing PDF documents within the Workplace OS environment. ### Workplace OS – Spreadsheet *Hoja de Cálculo de Workplace OS* A spreadsheet application in Workplace OS for creating and editing spreadsheets, performing calculations, and analyzing data. ### Workplace OS – Word Processor *Procesador de Textos de Workplace OS* A word processing application in Workplace OS for creating, editing, and formatting text documents. - **World Wide Web** ## Z
### Zero-party Data Zero-party data is information that users intentionally and proactively share with an organization; in PointSav, it is the highest-trust input class for service-content, requiring no inference and carrying explicit user consent. ## See also - [[style-guide-topic]] - [[style-guide-guide]]