aid: sitecore name: Sitecore Vocabulary description: >- Domain vocabulary, taxonomy, and key terminology for the Sitecore Digital Experience Platform, covering content management, customer data, personalization, commerce, and digital asset management. created: '2026-05-02' modified: '2026-05-02' domains: - name: Content Management description: Terminology for managing digital content in Sitecore XM Cloud terms: - term: Site Collection definition: >- A logical grouping of related Sitecore sites within an XM Cloud tenant. Collections allow shared resource management and organizational hierarchy. aliases: [collection] relatedTerms: [Site, Tenant] - term: Site definition: >- An individual website managed within a site collection. Each site has its own set of pages, languages, and rendering host configuration. aliases: [website, XM Cloud site] relatedTerms: [Site Collection, Page, Rendering Host] - term: Page definition: >- A content item within an XM Cloud site that corresponds to a navigable URL. Pages have versions, language variants, and publishing states. aliases: [content page, page item] relatedTerms: [Site, Publishing Job, Template] - term: Rendering Host definition: >- A front-end application endpoint (Next.js, React, etc.) that renders XM Cloud content. Used by Experience Editor and Pages for visual authoring. aliases: [editing host, front-end application] relatedTerms: [Site, Experience Edge] - term: Experience Edge definition: >- Sitecore's globally distributed CDN layer that delivers published content to headless front-end applications. Content is pushed via Publishing Jobs. aliases: [Edge, content delivery] relatedTerms: [Publishing Job, GraphQL Delivery API] - term: Publishing Job definition: >- An asynchronous process that pushes content from XM Cloud authoring to Experience Edge. Jobs track progress, status, and item processing metrics. aliases: [publish job, content publish] relatedTerms: [Experience Edge, Page, Site] - term: Template definition: >- A Sitecore item template that defines the fields and structure of a content type. Pages and other content items are created from templates. relatedTerms: [Page, Field] - name: Customer Data Platform description: Terminology for Sitecore CDP guest data and behavioral tracking terms: - term: Guest definition: >- The core customer entity in Sitecore CDP. A guest profile aggregates personal information, behavioral data, order history, and custom data extensions. aliases: [customer, contact, user] relatedTerms: [Guest Reference, Order, Data Extension, Session] - term: Guest Reference definition: >- The unique identifier for a guest profile in Sitecore CDP. Used as the primary key across API operations. Format is a UUID string prefixed by context. aliases: [guestRef, ref] relatedTerms: [Guest] - term: Data Extension definition: >- Custom key-value attributes attached to a guest profile in CDP. Allows organizations to store domain-specific data beyond standard guest fields. aliases: [custom attribute, profile extension] relatedTerms: [Guest] - term: Stream API definition: >- The Sitecore CDP API for real-time behavioral event ingestion. Captures page views, product interactions, and purchase events. aliases: [event stream, behavioral streaming] relatedTerms: [Session, Guest, Behavioral Data] - term: Session definition: >- A bounded interaction period of a guest with a digital touchpoint. Sessions contain events and are associated with guest profiles. relatedTerms: [Guest, Stream API] - name: Personalization description: Terminology for Sitecore Personalize decisioning and experimentation terms: - term: Flow Definition definition: >- A reusable configuration defining the logic, variants, and triggers for a Sitecore Personalize experience. Flows can be web-based, full-stack, or API-triggered. aliases: [experiment, experience, personalization flow] relatedTerms: [Decision Model, Variant, Connection] - term: Decision Model definition: >- A programmatic targeting model in Sitecore Personalize that determines which offer or experience variant to show a given user based on rules and ML scoring. aliases: [decisioning, targeting model] relatedTerms: [Flow Definition, Variant] - term: Connection definition: >- A configured integration with an external system used within Sitecore Personalize flows and decision models. Defines auth credentials and endpoint configuration. aliases: [integration, external connection] relatedTerms: [Flow Definition, Decision Model] - term: Variant definition: >- An alternative version of content or experience within a flow definition. Sitecore Personalize serves variants based on decisioning rules or A/B allocation. relatedTerms: [Flow Definition, Decision Model] - name: Commerce description: Terminology for Sitecore OrderCloud and Discover commerce capabilities terms: - term: Marketplace definition: >- The top-level commerce organization in OrderCloud. Contains all buyers, sellers, suppliers, products, and order management entities. aliases: [org, organization] relatedTerms: [Buyer, Seller, Supplier, Catalog] - term: Buyer definition: >- An organization in OrderCloud that purchases goods. Buyers contain users, user groups, addresses, cost centers, and spending accounts. relatedTerms: [Marketplace, Order, Catalog] - term: Seller definition: >- The primary organization within an OrderCloud marketplace that manages the product catalog, pricing, and fulfillment. relatedTerms: [Marketplace, Buyer, Supplier] - term: Catalog definition: >- A collection of products made available to specific buyers in OrderCloud. Catalogs control product visibility and access permissions. relatedTerms: [Product, Buyer, Price Schedule] - term: Price Schedule definition: >- A pricing configuration in OrderCloud that defines how products are priced for different buyer segments, including quantity breaks and min/max order amounts. relatedTerms: [Product, Catalog, Buyer] - term: Extended Properties definition: >- Custom key-value fields (xp) that can be added to nearly any OrderCloud resource. Enables domain-specific data without schema changes. aliases: [xp, custom properties] relatedTerms: [Product, Order, Buyer] - term: Discovery definition: >- Sitecore's product search and recommendation engine (formerly Sitecore Search). Provides ranked search results, faceted filtering, and personalized recommendations. aliases: [Sitecore Discover, Sitecore Search] relatedTerms: [Search, Recommendations, Behavioral Events] - name: Digital Asset Management description: Terminology for Sitecore Content Hub digital asset management terms: - term: Entity definition: >- The core data object in Content Hub. Entities represent assets, metadata schemas, jobs, users, and all other configurable objects in the system. relatedTerms: [Asset, Taxonomy, Schema] - term: Asset definition: >- A digital file (image, video, document, etc.) managed within Sitecore Content Hub. Assets are a specialized type of entity with file-related metadata. relatedTerms: [Entity, Upload, DAM] - term: Selection definition: >- A named set of Content Hub entities used for bulk operations and export workflows. relatedTerms: [Entity, Job] - term: Stylelabs definition: >- The brand name of the platform underlying Sitecore Content Hub (previously Stylelabs M.Content). The domain stylelabs.io is used for Content Hub tenant URLs. relatedTerms: [Content Hub, Entity] apis: - name: XM Cloud REST API baseUrl: https://xmapps-api.sitecorecloud.io authType: Bearer (OAuth 2.0) version: v1 - name: CDP REST API baseUrl: https://api-engage-us.sitecorecloud.io authType: Basic Auth version: v2.1 - name: Personalize REST API baseUrl: https://api.boxever.com authType: API Key version: v1 - name: OrderCloud API baseUrl: https://api.ordercloud.io/v1 authType: Bearer (OAuth 2.0) version: v1 - name: Content Hub REST API baseUrl: https://{tenant}.stylelabs.io/api authType: Bearer (OAuth 2.0) version: v1 - name: Discover API baseUrl: https://{subdomain}.rfksrv.com authType: API Key version: v3