The following terms are used throughout this standard. Each term is given in English and French, with a full description.
| English | French | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ICGLR — International Conference on the Great Lakes Region | CIRGL — Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs | 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 — Regional Database of Mineral Flows | BDRFM — Base de données régionale des minerais | 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 — National Minerals Database | BDNM — Base de données nationale sur les minéraux | The technical data storage facility and the application that is used to manage it at country level, implemented by each ICGLR member state. |
| RCM — Regional Certification Mechanism | MRC — Mécanisme régional de certification | 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 — Chain of Custody | CdP — Chaîne de possession | 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 — Application Programming Interface | API — Interface de programmation d’application | 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 | Termes métier | 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 | Identifiant technique | 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 | camelCase (caseChameau) | The practice used in programming of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words. Used as the naming convention for technical terms in this standard (e.g., mineSiteId, certificationStatus). |
| snake_case | snake_case | The naming convention in which each space is replaced with an underscore (_) character, and words are written in lowercase. A commonly used naming convention in computing, for example for variable and subroutine names, and for filenames. |
