Definitions

Member
Any user who has created an account. Edits by members cause otherwise Moderator Approved records to be marked as Needs Approval.
(Synonyms – editor, authenticated user, contributor)

Moderator
A member with extra rights, Moderators are experts in their field. They can approve record changes, create Projects and can invite other researchers to be Moderators.

Design & Art Australia Online Manager
A site administrator. Design & Art Australia Online staff.
(Synonyms – maintainer, administrator.)

Field
A unit of metadata. For example ‘birth date’, or ‘exhibition title’.

Record
All the information we have about a person. That includes the biographical prose and field data.

Prose Text
This is the biographical prose within a biographical record.

Stub
A very brief biographical record in need of more information. You’ll see an invitation to add more information to a stub at the bottom of the prose field.

Moderator Approved
A record that has been approved by a Moderator.

Double-Blind Peer Reviewed
A prose text that has been anonymously peer reviewed by at least two reviewers (peer and board) prior to publication.

Are there any other terms you think should be included in this list? Email us at daao [at] unsw.edu.au.