name: Datafiniti Vocabulary
description: >-
  Shared vocabulary of terms used across Datafiniti's Data-as-a-Service APIs
  for business, product, property, and people datasets.
terms:
  - term: Record
    definition: >-
      A normalized data row in the Datafiniti catalog representing a single
      entity such as a business, product, property, or person.
  - term: Dataset
    definition: >-
      A category of records such as businesses, products, properties, or
      people aggregated from the public web.
  - term: Query
    definition: >-
      A Datafiniti search expression used to filter records by field
      conditions and full-text terms.
  - term: View
    definition: >-
      A named field projection that selects a subset of fields returned for
      records.
  - term: Download
    definition: >-
      A bulk asynchronous export of all records matching a query, returned
      as a downloadable file.
  - term: Enrichment
    definition: >-
      A process that augments existing records with additional Datafiniti
      attributes.
  - term: Suppression
    definition: >-
      A process that removes outdated or invalid records from a customer
      dataset.
  - term: Real-time Request
    definition: >-
      An on-demand fetch that retrieves the latest data directly from
      source websites for a record.
  - term: Token
    definition: >-
      A bearer credential issued by /v4/auth and required on every
      Datafiniti API call.