Terminology

Term

Meaning in PostProject

Asset

A logical production object, independent of a path.

Representation

One usable realization of an asset, composed from a content structure.

Content structure

How one or more storage resources form a representation.

Resource

A storage-level object or compact patterned object used by a representation.

Locator

Where or how a resource can be accessed.

Object ID

A typed PostProject identity for one domain object.

External identifier

A scheme-qualified industry, registry, vendor, or application value.

Activity

An operation that consumes inputs and produces outputs.

Provenance

Production knowledge about how media or results were produced.

Revision

One durable, successful local mutation transaction and its semantic events.