1.1 Glossary
This document uses the following terms:
annotation: Any custom, application-specific extension that is applied to an instance of a schema definition language through the use of custom attributes and elements that are not a part of that schema definition language.
data service: A server-side application that implements the OData protocol for the purpose of enabling clients to publish and edit resources. The resources exposed by data services are described by using the EDM, as specified in [MC-CSDL].
Entity Data Model (EDM): A set of concepts that describes the structure of data, regardless of its stored form.
schema: The set of attributes and object classes that govern the creation and update of objects.
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): A string that identifies a resource. The URI is an addressing mechanism defined in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax [RFC3986].
MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.