Glossary

being

A record in an indexia table. May be a creator or a creature.

creator

A record in a genus (parent) table. Creators may have one or more creatures in species (child) tables. All creators have an id & one text trait.

creature

A record in a species (child) table. Creatures must have one & only one creator from a genus (parent) table. All creatures have an id, a text trait, & one foreign key relationship on the genus of their creator.

corpus

From Latin, meaning body. A dataframe representation of indexia data.

dendron

From Ancient Greek, meaning tree. An XML element tree representation of indexia data.

diktua

From Ancient Greek, meaning net. A network graph representation of indexia data.

eidola

From Ancient Greek, meaning figures or representations. Module-generated sample data or tables.

genus

A parent table containing creator records. Columns are id & <trait>, where <trait> is a user-defined attribute of the creators, stored in the table as text. Changes to the genus or its creators cascade to creatures.

id

Unique identifier of a creator or creature. The column id is the primary key of the genus or species table. Must not be null.

kind

Name of an indexia table. May be a genus or species.

species

A child table containing creature records. Columns are id, <trait>, & <genus_id>, where <trait> is a user-defined attribute of the creatures & <genus_id> represents the id of a creature’s creator.

trait

Attribute of a creator or creature, stored as text. Must not be null.