One vocabulary

Glossary

Every term the platform uses, in one place — the core entities, the recognition vocabulary, and the public terms adopted across the app.

The public vocabulary

The platform names each concept exactly one way. These are the chosen terms — and what they replaced.

Analyser: One of the four analysis tools (Persona, Role, Requirements, Resume). An Analyser produces a plan. Previously also called a Planner.
Flow: The navigational stage sequence that links a role's competencies to clauses, supports, and materials. Never "workflow" in the interface.
Activity Flow Diagram (AFD): The BPMN-style visual bound to a flow, browsable by detail level L1–L4. Expanded on first use; AFD thereafter.
Verification panel: The invited practitioners who confirm a standard relationship by relationship; a round is the event they vote in. Delphi, online workshop, and focus group are panel formats — not separate features.
Future-ready role: The archetype a legacy role transforms toward. Every item on a future-ready role carries cited source evidence.
Register: A computed cross-entity table — the gap register, the cross-reference register, the profile–information-use register.
Maturity ladder: Generated → authored → verified: one flow climbing states, never three different types. The same grammar runs the homepage pipeline strip, the flows hub, and the trust panels.
Statement type: The field on an Action Statement that records what kind of act it describes. Its values come from the Activity Type taxonomy, so a statement type is an Activity Type, the way a nationality is a country.
Activity Type: The governed 18-member taxonomy that Statement type values are drawn from. One member, for example "Do (x)", is an Activity Type. Use this name when the taxonomy itself is the subject.

Core entities

Role: An organisational position composed of one or more Profiles. Roles vary by jurisdiction even when they share a name — e.g. Architect in the UK vs Niger carries different obligations.
Profile: A generic container of competency Statements and Information Uses. Profiles are the building blocks of Roles; one Profile can appear in many Roles.
Information Use (IU): A canonical container for the types of information work a profile performs, defined per the BIMei 211in document. Three branches: Model Uses (MU), Document Uses (DU), Data Uses (dU). IUs link to Roles transitively via Profiles.
Statement (Item): A single competency statement — an action a profile can perform. Items belong to Profiles and may be linked to Materials.
Material / Source Material: A derived artefact (clause, template, checklist, guide, or standard) cited from a Source. Materials connect to Items and IUs only — not directly to Profiles.
Source: The issuing publication, dataset, or upload from which Materials are derived — e.g. ISO 19650, ABNT NBR 15965, an uploaded company SOP.
Flow: An ordered sequence of activities. Flows attach to Profiles only; Roles reach Flows transitively via their Profiles.
Persona: A user-specific tuple: Role + Current Profiles + Target Profiles + Flow of activities to close the gap. Built by the Persona Analyser. Not synonymous with Profile.
Jurisdiction: A scoping context — a country, sub-national region (e.g. Quebec), or supra-national bloc (e.g. EU) — that governs which Materials, Profiles, and Roles apply.
Requirements Analyser: The second Analyser: it ingests a project programme, extracts statements and flows, and identifies the competencies needed to deliver the project. Previously called the Project Planner. Distinct from the Persona Analyser.

Recognition terms

Recognition: A record that a named body backs a role, profile or flow as meeting its standard.
Recognising body: The organisation that recognises a role: a professional association, an industry or trade body, a registration board, or similar. It is not an accreditation body.
Issuer: The body or credential platform that turns a credential template into real, signed credentials.
Credential type: The kind of credential the recognition leads to — for example, a full membership credential or a smaller continuing-development unit.
CPD points: Continuing-professional-development credit, counted in the body's own scheme.
Validity period: How long a credential stays valid before it must be renewed. Some credentials never expire.
Renewal frequency: How often a holder must renew the credential, where renewal applies.
Evidence requirements: What the body expects a candidate to provide to earn the credential.
Market (jurisdiction): Whether a recognition applies to one specific market or worldwide.
Status: Whether a recognition is a draft, active, or withdrawn.
Formal: A role that has been reviewed and approved as stable. Recognition only shows publicly on a formal role.
Credential template: A ready-made description of a credential, in a standard format, that an issuer uses as the starting point to issue real credentials.
Open Badges 3.0: An open standard format for digital credentials, maintained by 1EdTech.
W3C Verifiable Credentials: A W3C standard format for cryptographically verifiable credentials.

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One vocabulary

Glossary

Every term the platform uses, in one place — the core entities, the recognition vocabulary, and the public terms adopted across the app.

The public vocabulary

The platform names each concept exactly one way. These are the chosen terms — and what they replaced.

Analyser: One of the four analysis tools (Persona, Role, Requirements, Resume). An Analyser produces a plan. Previously also called a Planner.
Flow: The navigational stage sequence that links a role's competencies to clauses, supports, and materials. Never "workflow" in the interface.
Activity Flow Diagram (AFD): The BPMN-style visual bound to a flow, browsable by detail level L1–L4. Expanded on first use; AFD thereafter.
Verification panel: The invited practitioners who confirm a standard relationship by relationship; a round is the event they vote in. Delphi, online workshop, and focus group are panel formats — not separate features.
Future-ready role: The archetype a legacy role transforms toward. Every item on a future-ready role carries cited source evidence.
Register: A computed cross-entity table — the gap register, the cross-reference register, the profile–information-use register.
Maturity ladder: Generated → authored → verified: one flow climbing states, never three different types. The same grammar runs the homepage pipeline strip, the flows hub, and the trust panels.
Statement type: The field on an Action Statement that records what kind of act it describes. Its values come from the Activity Type taxonomy, so a statement type is an Activity Type, the way a nationality is a country.
Activity Type: The governed 18-member taxonomy that Statement type values are drawn from. One member, for example "Do (x)", is an Activity Type. Use this name when the taxonomy itself is the subject.

Core entities

Role: An organisational position composed of one or more Profiles. Roles vary by jurisdiction even when they share a name — e.g. Architect in the UK vs Niger carries different obligations.
Profile: A generic container of competency Statements and Information Uses. Profiles are the building blocks of Roles; one Profile can appear in many Roles.
Information Use (IU): A canonical container for the types of information work a profile performs, defined per the BIMei 211in document. Three branches: Model Uses (MU), Document Uses (DU), Data Uses (dU). IUs link to Roles transitively via Profiles.
Statement (Item): A single competency statement — an action a profile can perform. Items belong to Profiles and may be linked to Materials.
Material / Source Material: A derived artefact (clause, template, checklist, guide, or standard) cited from a Source. Materials connect to Items and IUs only — not directly to Profiles.
Source: The issuing publication, dataset, or upload from which Materials are derived — e.g. ISO 19650, ABNT NBR 15965, an uploaded company SOP.
Flow: An ordered sequence of activities. Flows attach to Profiles only; Roles reach Flows transitively via their Profiles.
Persona: A user-specific tuple: Role + Current Profiles + Target Profiles + Flow of activities to close the gap. Built by the Persona Analyser. Not synonymous with Profile.
Jurisdiction: A scoping context — a country, sub-national region (e.g. Quebec), or supra-national bloc (e.g. EU) — that governs which Materials, Profiles, and Roles apply.
Requirements Analyser: The second Analyser: it ingests a project programme, extracts statements and flows, and identifies the competencies needed to deliver the project. Previously called the Project Planner. Distinct from the Persona Analyser.

Recognition terms

Recognition: A record that a named body backs a role, profile or flow as meeting its standard.
Recognising body: The organisation that recognises a role: a professional association, an industry or trade body, a registration board, or similar. It is not an accreditation body.
Issuer: The body or credential platform that turns a credential template into real, signed credentials.
Credential type: The kind of credential the recognition leads to — for example, a full membership credential or a smaller continuing-development unit.
CPD points: Continuing-professional-development credit, counted in the body's own scheme.
Validity period: How long a credential stays valid before it must be renewed. Some credentials never expire.
Renewal frequency: How often a holder must renew the credential, where renewal applies.
Evidence requirements: What the body expects a candidate to provide to earn the credential.
Market (jurisdiction): Whether a recognition applies to one specific market or worldwide.
Status: Whether a recognition is a draft, active, or withdrawn.
Formal: A role that has been reviewed and approved as stable. Recognition only shows publicly on a formal role.
Credential template: A ready-made description of a credential, in a standard format, that an issuer uses as the starting point to issue real credentials.
Open Badges 3.0: An open standard format for digital credentials, maintained by 1EdTech.
W3C Verifiable Credentials: A W3C standard format for cryptographically verifiable credentials.

Glossary

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Core entities

Recognition terms

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The public vocabulary

Core entities

Recognition terms

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