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