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AI Agent
An AI agent is a software system in which a model can select actions, use tools, observe results and adapt its next steps toward an objective within defined boundaries.
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Algorithmic Composition
Algorithmic composition is the use of rules, procedures, probability, computation or formal systems to generate or organize musical material.
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Augmented Intelligence
Augmented intelligence is the design of tools, interfaces and systems that expand human perception, reasoning, memory and creative capability.
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Autonomous System
An autonomous system can perceive relevant state, select actions and adapt behavior toward objectives with limited direct human control during operation.
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Browser Software
Browser software is application software delivered through web standards while relying on the browser runtime for interface, storage, permissions, media and distribution behavior.
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Contextual Execution
Contextual execution is the practice of making identity, state, permissions, relationships and operating context active constraints on what a system can do.
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Creative Coding
Creative coding is the use of programming as an artistic, design or exploratory medium rather than only as an engineering implementation tool.
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Cybernetic Feedback
Cybernetic feedback is the circulation of information about a system's state back into the system so that behavior can be regulated, adapted or transformed.
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Digital Preservation
Digital preservation is the long-term work of keeping digital objects understandable, authentic, usable and accessible despite changes in formats, software, hardware and context.
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Domain Operating System
A domain operating system is a shared runtime and information layer that coordinates identities, entities, permissions, workflows, events and interfaces for a specific field of activity.
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Entity Identity
Entity identity is the durable naming of a person, concept, project, program, publication or artefact so that references remain stable as descriptions evolve.
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Event-Driven Architecture
Event-driven architecture is a system design approach in which components publish, transport and react to records of state change rather than depending only on direct synchronous calls.
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Generative AI
Generative AI refers to machine-learning systems that produce or transform media such as text, image, audio, video, code or structured data from learned patterns.
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Generative System
A generative system is a rule-based, procedural or computational arrangement that produces variable outputs from defined constraints, materials and processes.
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Graph Modeling
Graph modeling represents a domain through addressable nodes, typed relationships and properties chosen to answer specific questions and support specific operations.
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Graph Runtime
A graph runtime is an execution environment in which addressable entities and typed relationships participate directly in contextual computation.
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Human Computer Interaction
Human computer interaction is the study and design of relationships between people, computational systems, interfaces, tasks, environments and cultures of use.
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Hypertext
Hypertext is a system of non-linear text and media connected by links, allowing readers and machines to traverse knowledge through associations.
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Internet Culture
Internet culture is the set of social forms, aesthetics, protocols, communities, memes, archives and practices that emerge through networked communication.
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Knowledge Graph
A knowledge graph is a structured network of entities, identifiers and typed relationships that makes knowledge navigable, queryable and reusable across contexts.
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Large Language Model
A large language model is a parameterized machine-learning model trained to predict and generate sequences of tokens from statistical patterns learned across large text or multimodal corpora.
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Linked Data
Linked Data is a web publishing approach that identifies things with stable URIs and connects them through machine-readable statements.
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Machine Learning Workflows
Machine learning workflows are the ordered practices that move from source material and metadata through validation, preparation, training, evaluation and deployment decisions.
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Metadata
Metadata is structured information about a resource, such as title, creator, date, format, source, rights, subject, relation and preservation context.
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Microservice Architecture
Microservice architecture structures a software system as independently deployable services aligned with bounded capabilities and communicating through explicit contracts.
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Motion Design
Motion design is the use of time, movement, transition, rhythm and sequencing to structure visual communication and interface behavior.
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Multimodal AI
Multimodal AI describes systems that learn from, align, transform or generate more than one modality such as text, image, audio, video, sensor data or structured records.
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Ontology
In knowledge engineering, an ontology is an explicit specification of the kinds of entities, properties, relationships and constraints used to represent a domain.
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Open Source
Open source is a software and cultural practice in which source code is made available under licenses that allow use, study, modification and redistribution.
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Open-Weight Model
An open-weight model is a machine-learning model whose learned parameters are distributed for reuse under stated terms, without necessarily providing the training data, training code or freedoms required by open-source definitions.
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Personal Knowledge System
A personal knowledge system is a practice and tool environment for capturing, linking, revising and retrieving notes, sources, ideas and decisions over time.
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Procedural Graphics
Procedural graphics are images or visual systems generated from rules, algorithms, parameters, simulation or code rather than only manually drawn assets.
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Provenance
Provenance is information about the people, activities, sources, transformations and decisions involved in producing a thing or piece of data.
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation is an architecture that retrieves external information at query time and supplies selected evidence to a generative model before or during response production.
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Signal Archaeology
Signal archaeology is the interpretation of technical, sonic, visual or archival traces as evidence of hidden processes, transformations and histories.
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Situated Actors and Topological Governance
In VASTE, an Actor is an extension-owned graph identity whose effective observation and action are resolved inside a specific System, Environment, topology and policy context.
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Speech Datasets
Speech datasets are structured collections of recorded speech, transcripts, speaker context and quality metadata prepared for analysis, preservation or downstream machine-learning workflows.
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Speech Recording
Speech recording is the directed capture of spoken language with enough technical, contextual and consent metadata to support review, reuse and preservation.
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Systems Thinking
Systems thinking is an approach that studies elements through their relationships, feedback, boundaries, delays, stocks, flows and patterns of behavior over time.
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Typography
Typography is the design and arrangement of written language through typefaces, spacing, hierarchy, rhythm, scale and reading conditions.
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VAB and Genesis
VAB is VASTE’s Assisted Boot orchestration path for understanding an initial intent, composing a sealed plan, admitting a Founding Actor and materializing a governed starting graph.
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.vast Portable Graph Format
A .vast file is an experimental `vast/1` sealed JSON package carrying a System-relative whole-System or subtree closure, its manifest and integrity hash—not a live Environment.
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VASTE Extension Architecture
A VASTE extension is an optional, System-scoped capability unit that declares domain actions, bindings and surfaces while runtime authority remains in the core execution path.
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The Five VASTE Primitives
VASTE has a closed primitive roster—Vertex, Tie, Action, Surface and Environment—from which graph identity, topology, admitted change, observation and execution-local context are composed.
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Voice Technology
Voice technology is the design and engineering of systems that capture, analyze, transform, preserve or present spoken voice as technical and cultural material.