Glossary

Baseprint Document Format (BDF)

A digital encoding format for the dissemination of research document snapshots across independent websites in both webpage and PDF formats. For more information, visit baseprints.singlesource.pub.

Baseprint document snapshot

Baseprint snapshot

A document snapshot encoded in Baseprint Document Format (BDF).

Baseprint document succession

A succession of Baseprint document snapshots recorded in Document Succession Git Layout (DSGL).

Baseprinter

An authoring tool. Documentation here and source code here.

BDF

Baseprint Document Format.

document snapshot

A snapshot of data encoding a document.

Document Succession Git Layout (DSGL)

A structured layout of Git objects in a Git commit history to represent a Baseprint document succession.

Document Succession Identifier (DSI)

An textual identifier of Baseprint document successions and their document snapshots.

DSGL

Document Succession Git Layout.

DSI

Document Succession Identifier.

snapshot

A record of data captured at some point in time.