Glossary

Basic concepts

• _Prtcl: the underscore protocol, a set of rules defining how a digital piece of data can be updated, forked and merged, similar to Git.

• Evee: evolving entity, a digital piece of content that evolves following the _Prtcl rules.

• Perspective (branch in Git): an evolving version of any piece of content, controlled by its author. One of the core concepts of the _Prtcl.

• Context (repository in Git): an arbitrary string that defines what a perspective is talking about. One of the core concepts of the _Prtcl.

• Commit (commit in Git): a change made by an author to an evolving piece of content. One of the core concepts of the _Prtcl.

Cortex

• Cortex: framework in charge of interpreting Evees, make their content interoperable and rendering their content in different ways.

• Pattern: a trait that a piece of content can implement. Each pattern specifies how a kind of content can behave. The core building block of the Cortex framework.

• Lens: web component capable of rendering a specific pattern.

• Source: a service capable of retrieving content-addressable objects from their hash.

• Provider: a source that is also capable of creating or modifying objects.

• Module: group of patterns, lenses, sources and providers that work together.