PointSav encyclopedia — glossary and lexicon

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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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**Correction (2026-08-04):** the anchor links above were dead — they pointed at
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## A
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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
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- **Backup**
- **Bare Metal Resources**
- **Berkeley Software Distribution or FreeBSD**
- **Big Tech or Big Tech Ecosystem or Ring Fence**
### Blockchain
*Cadena de Bloques*

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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
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### 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|six-tier sovereignty matrix]] and are never routed through the public internet.

- **Chart of Accounts**
### Cloud Computing
*Computación en la Nube*

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> **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
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### 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*

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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|os-orchestration]] coordinating multiple ToteboxOS archives.

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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
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- **e-Commerce**
- **Economic Model**
- **Edge Computing**
- **Enterprise**
- **Enterprise Resource Management (ERP)**
- **Enterprise User**
- **.EXE**

## F
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### 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
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- **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
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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
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- **Jawbone**

## K
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- **Key Note Slides**
- **Kubernetes**

## L
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- **LaTeX**
- **Leased Server Resources**
- **Licensing Agreement**
- **Local Administrators**
- **Login**
- **LoRa**

## M
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- **Machine Authorization**
- **MAN Files or MAN.txt**
- **MariaDB**
- **Marketing Directory**
- **Markup Language**
- **Mark Up Language**
- **Media Assets**
### MediaKit OS
*SO de MediaKit*

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### 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
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- **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
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- **On-prem Resources**
- **Open Source**
### Operating System
*Sistema Operativo*

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A component of OrchestrationOS that provides Geospatial Information System (GIS) capabilities, including mapping, spatial analysis, and data visualization.

- **OrchestrationOS – IoT Connect**

## P
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- **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 (Correction, 2026-08-02, verified against canonical `origin/main`: no directory is currently Apache-2.0-licensed. The real, ratified root `LICENSE` ("MULTI-LICENSE NOTICE" v1.1, effective 2026-05-24) is a per-directory scheme — most `os-*`/`service-*`/`app-console-*` directories are AGPL-3.0-or-later; a handful (`os-infrastructure`, `os-mediakit`, `os-interface`, `app-mediakit-*`) are FSL-1.1-ALv2. Flagged, not resolved.).

- **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*

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### 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*

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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.

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## R
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- **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.

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Function of proprietary software.

- **RSS Feeds**
- **RSS Reader**

## S
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- **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*

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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.

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## T
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- **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
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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
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- **Virtualization**
### Virtual Machine or VM
*Máquina Virtual (VM)*

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## W
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- **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*

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A word processing application in Workplace OS for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.

- **World Wide Web**

## Z
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