http://thequality.com/flics/10weeks/blog/archives/docs/Glossary.doc
| AGENT | Software that functions autonomously on behalf of a user |
| GUI | “Graphic User Interface” The non-text based visual mechanism by which input to a computer is managed, also referred to as ‘look & feel’ e.g. Microsoft Standard GUI |
| FLIC | "Flexible light interactive content" The art asset format created for the project. |
| MIX | The technical description of the film experience created as an XML file in a format like SMIL |
| MOD | Re-mixed content packaged so it can be downloaded into the experience |
| RE-MIXABLE FILMS | Films you can fiddle with like never before |
| MODFILMS | Ditto |
| MACHINIMA | Machine cinema. Films created using real-time 3D engines (e.g. game technology). |
| RIG | "Reactive Interface Grid". Mind-machine interface technology in the story. Project-specific code on the DVD. |
| ENGINE | As in 3D engine. Code which plays the film in real-time from a library of assets. |
| GROOVER | Rhythm game module of the RIG |
| SWITCH | Performance (DJ/VJ) module of the RIG |
| FEEDER | Online input/output module for the RIG |
| SANCTUARY | The film and overall project title |
| ten weeks in the head bin | The film script on which SANCTUARY is based |
| ASSET | Digital media file used in the production |
| SMIL | Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language. Technical language for describing timing and playback information of audio-visual assets |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework. Technical language for describing semantic properties of any object. |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language. Technical language for describing any arbitrary markup language in machine-readable terms |
| CMS | Content Management System. |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
| Creative Commons | Online resource developing an intellectual commons in the form of new licenses that make it easier to build on other people's existing work and develop new ways to collaborate |
| Code | Software |
| OSS | Open Source Software. Open source means conforming to a license specifying certain critera including access to source code, free distribution, no restrictions toother software, and technical neutrality. |
| P2P | Peer-to-peer. P2P is a class of applications (like the Kazaa) that takes advantage of resources -- storage, cycles, content, human presence -- available at the edges of the Internet. Because accessing these decentralized resources means operating in an environment of unstable connectivity and unpredictable IP addresses, P2P nodes must operate outside the DNS system and have significant or total autonomy from central servers. |
| HfC | Horses for Courses (web3d film by Michela Ledwidge, 2001). English expression originating from the practice of picking race-hourses deemed the most suitable for any given terrain and conditions. |