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ICGLR Data Standard — clean, normative specification.
Technical terms, acronyms and abbreviations #
| Term / Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ICGLR | The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is an intergovernmental organization of the countries of the African Great Lakes region composed of 12 Member States: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia |
| RDBMF | The RDBMF (Regional Database on Mineral Flows) of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is a digital platform designed to track and monitor the trade of minerals within the Great Lakes Region. It is a key component of the Regional Certification Mechanism (RCM) and supports transparency in the mineral supply chain. |
| NMD | The technical data storage facility and the application that is used to manage it at country level, implemented by each ICGLR member state. |
| RCM | The ICGLR Regional Certification Mechanism (RCM) is a regional due diligence and certification system for the ICGLR’s designated minerals (3TG: tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold). It combines mine-site inspection/validation, chain-of-custody tracking, export certification and audits to help ensure mineral supply chains do not support armed groups or abusive/illegal security actors, and to promote transparent, responsible mineral trade in the Great Lakes Region. |
| CoC | A record of the sequence of individuals or entities which have custody of Designated Minerals as they move through the upstream supply chain, as well as associated records of the Lot(s) being moved, and the actions performed on the Lot(s) at any given point in the chain (production, combination, transportation, export, etc.) This process concludes with the issuance of an ICGLR Certificate for the export of Designated Minerals. |
| API | An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. |
| Business term | The human-readable name of a concept (entity, attribute, code list item) as used in day-to-day business communication. It reflects the shared meaning agreed by domain stakeholders and is expressed in natural language (not constrained by system or implementation rules). The business term is the primary label for the concept in the vocabulary and is used in documentation, forms, policies, and stakeholder discussions. |
| Technical term | The machine-oriented identifier for the same concept, used in implementations (APIs, schemas, databases). It follows agreed naming and formatting rules (e.g., camelCase, snake_case), is stable, and is designed to be unambiguous and tool-friendly. The technical term maps 1:1 to a business term/definition, but may differ in wording due to technical constraints (length, reserved words, character set). |
| camelCase | Camel case (stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase) is the practice used in programming of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words. |
| snake_case | The technical data storage facility and the application that is used to manage it at the country level are implemented by each ICGLR member state. |
