3 Terminology

Terminology used within this specification.

Term	Description
Event	Event conveys pre-scheduled date-time slots allocated for a specific activity such as consultation, maintenance, monitoring, therapy, etc. The Scheduler considers an event as the smallest schedulable slot of time (e.g. doctor consultation with a patient, or automated payroll calculation).
Subscriber	Person/device/software that is participating as an audience/consumer of activities and alerts in a specific event (i.e. students, patients, software apps, devices, etc.).
Resource	Person/device/software/facility/vehicle/etc. that is allocated to carry out some specific activities in a specific event.
Appointment	The enrolment of a Resource or Subscriber into a specific event.
Event Status	State of an event (proposed/published/booked/started/completed/no-show/failed/cancelled).
Event type	The main activity to be done during a specific event (e.g. diagnostics, consultation, Vaccination, interview, therapy, training, meeting).
Host Entity	Organization that provides resources for an Event (Identity of a Hospital, school, Company, Hotel, etc.).
Organizer	A person user authorized by Host to manage event schedules, and allocate resources and subscriptions for one or more events using this Building Block (i.e. health worker, admin, kin of patient, etc.).
Venue	Address of the physical location where the event is hosted. If the event is purely online, the location will be “Virtual”.
Alert Message	Specific information (reminders/acknowledgements/status/etc.) sent to subscribers and resources in the context of an event they are associated with.
Alert Targets	Resource and Subscribers to send trigger messages.
Alert Mode	Messaging method to be used for each specified target (SMS/email/URI).
Alert schedule	Date/time and associated details of which specific alert message must be sent to whom for an event.
Alert Status	The state of a scheduled Alert (pending/sent/acknowledged/ delivered/failed) which may be recorded in internal log.
Resource Category	(doctor, nurse, equipment, ambulance, etc.) needed in a given Event.
Resource Name	Individual name (a person’s name, a Doctor, Speaker, Teacher, Ambulance, Conference room, maintenance toolkit, etc.).
Affiliation	The entity that a subscriber or resource represents in an Event.
Log report	Information filtered from (system/administrative/transactional/status/etc.) related log maintained in the schedule.
Information Mediator	Another Govstack Building Block for secure access to services of various Building Blocks.
Pub/Sub	Rooms to publish or subscribe for messages associated with the scheduler through an Information Mediator Building Block.
Messaging building Block	Another GovStack Building Block needed for transmitting alert messages through SMS/Email