Glossary

Terms used across metasalmonpy and Salmon Data Packages.

Candidate: An ontology or vocabulary term returned by deterministic retrieval for a semantic target.
Constraint: A qualifier that narrows the entity or property represented by a measurement, such as a life stage, sex, or assessment phase.
EDH: Enterprise Data Hub, the DFO destination supported by metasalmonpy’s HNAP-aware ISO 19139 metadata export.
GCDFO: The DFO-specific salmon ontology namespace used for concepts whose scope is narrower than the shared Salmon Domain Ontology.
HNAP: Harmonized North American Profile, the ISO metadata profile used by the supported DFO EDH export.
I-ADOPT: A framework for decomposing an observed variable into five components: property, entity, constraint, statistical modifier, and the whole-variable term itself. metasalmonpy also records a unit. There is no dictionary method slot — sdp-0.3.0 removed it.
LLM assessment: An opt-in model decision about a deterministic candidate shortlist. Assessments are provenance for curator review, not authority.
Review marker: The REVIEW: prefix added to inferred IRIs. Strict validation fails until a human removes or resolves every marker.
Salmon Data Package (SDP): A portable directory containing data resources, standardized metadata CSVs, a Frictionless datapackage.json, and optional export artifacts.
Semantic target: A specific metadata field that needs an ontology or vocabulary IRI, such as a measurement property, code value, table observation unit, or dataset keyword.
SMN: The shared Salmon Domain Ontology namespace at https://w3id.org/smn/.
Structured term gap: A machine-readable record that a semantic target lacks an acceptable term or received a final request_new_term assessment.