version: '0.1'
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: openapi/mcmaster-experts-openapi.yml
note: >-
  Terms McMaster's own surfaces use, with the McMaster-specific meaning. Derived from probed
  responses and metadata; nothing here is imported from a vendor glossary.
terms:
  - term: MacID
    definition: >-
      McMaster's institutional login identifier, issued to every student, staff member and faculty
      member. Required to sign in to the Azure API Management developer portal, and exposed as the
      `macid` field on every McMaster Experts person record.
    surfaces: [ developer.api.mcmaster.ca, experts.mcmaster.ca ]
    personal_data: true
  - term: McMaster Experts
    definition: >-
      McMaster's researcher and expertise discovery gateway — a bespoke application, not a vendor
      research-information system. Indexes people, groups, user labels and publications.
    surface: https://experts.mcmaster.ca
  - term: group
    definition: >-
      An organisational unit in the Experts taxonomy — a Department, Faculty, centre or institute.
      Carries a slug usable as the `group` filter on /api/people.
    example_typeNames: [ Department, group ]
  - term: user-label
    definition: >-
      A field-of-research or expertise classification attached to a person or publication. Surfaced
      as `labels` and `labelKeys` on a publication record.
  - term: MacSphere
    definition: >-
      McMaster University Libraries' institutional repository of theses, dissertations and
      open-access outputs. DSpace 8.2, self-hosted under mcmaster.ca, holding 26,361 items as of
      2026-09-01. OAI-PMH repositoryIdentifier is macsphere.mcmaster.ca.
    surface: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca
  - term: Mosaic
    definition: McMaster's student and administrative information system. No public API surface.
    surface: https://mosaic.mcmaster.ca
  - term: Avenue to Learn
    definition: >-
      McMaster's learning management system, a D2L Brightspace deployment. Any LTI or Caliper
      conformance is D2L's, not McMaster's.
  - term: UTS
    definition: >-
      University Technology Services, the unit that operates developer.api.mcmaster.ca and McMaster's
      central IT. Publishes no status page.
    surface: https://uts.mcmaster.ca
  - term: Borealis
    definition: >-
      The Canadian Dataverse Repository, operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario Council of
      University Libraries. McMaster holds the named `mcmaster` collection on it — a tenancy, not a
      McMaster-operated platform.
    surface: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcmaster
  - term: CAF
    definition: >-
      Canadian Access Federation, operated by CANARIE. The registration authority for McMaster's
      Shibboleth IdP, which is published onward into eduGAIN.
  - term: DOI prefix 10.15173
    definition: >-
      The Crossref DOI prefix registered to McMaster University Library, member 5872. A publication
      record bearing this prefix was minted under McMaster's own membership rather than a publisher's.