Glossary

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.

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

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.