Glossary
- Agency
- An organisation in the Public Sector (central and local government).
- Blog
- A weblog, usually shortened to blog, is a website where regular entries are made (such as in a journal or diary) and presented in reverse chronological order. Blogs often offer commentary or news on a particular subject, like food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are mainly textual although many focus on photographs, videos, or audio. The word blog can also be used as a verb, meaning adding an entry to a blog.
- Department
- A generic term for a diverse range of agencies that serve as instruments of the Executive Government of New Zealand, as well as some agencies in the legislative branch of government (i.e. the Parliamentary Service and the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives) and that, together with all Ministers of the Crown and the Sovereign, legally constitute the ‘Crown’.
- Enterprise architecture
- The practice of applying a comprehensive and rigorous method for describing a current or future structure for an organisation’s processes, information systems, personnel, and organisational sub-units, so they align with the organisation’s core goals and strategic direction. Although often associated strictly with information technology, it relates more broadly to the practice of business optimisation in that it addresses business architecture, performance management, and process architecture as well. The main purpose of creating an enterprise architecture is to ensure business strategy and IT investments are aligned. Enterprise architecture allows traceability from the business strategy down to the underlying technology.
- Federated enterprise architecture
- The application of enterprise architecture practices to an overarching organisation composed of fully autonomous or semi-autonomous organisations working together to achieve the over-arching organisation’s core goals and strategic directions.
- Folksonomy
- A collaboratively generated, open-ended labelling system that enables Internet users to categorise content such as web pages, online photographs, and web links. The freely chosen labels, called tags, help to improve search engines’ effectiveness because content is categorised using a familiar, accessible, and shared vocabulary. The labelling process is called tagging. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and Del.icio.us.
- ICT
- Information and communication technologies – the use of devices and applications to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, share, and retrieve information.
- Podcasts
- Podcasting is distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. The term podcast, like radio, can mean both the content and the method of delivery.
- SMS
- Short Message Service is a service available on most digital mobile phones (and other mobile devices, e.g. a pocket PC, or occasionally desktop computers). It allows short messages (also known as text messages, or more colloquially SMSs, texts, or txts) to be sent between mobile phones, other handheld devices, and landline telephones.
- Social networking websites
- Social networking refers to a category of Internet applications which help connect friends, business partners, or other individuals using a variety of Web 2.0 tools. Examples are MySpace and Bebo.
- VoIP
- Voice over Internet Protocol routes voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. It means Internet connections can be used for telephone conversations, often in conjunction with video imaging.
- Web 2.0
- Refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static web pages. The concept may include blogs and wikis.
- Wiki
- A type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content quickly and easily, sometimes without needing to register. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that underpins the operation of such a website, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (and original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and online encyclopaedias such as Wikipedia. ‘Wiki-wiki’ means ‘fast’ in Hawaiian.
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