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Award notice
Publication stating an award decision or procedure result. It does not, by itself, prove delivery or contract performance.
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Operative part
Part of a judgment or authority decision stating what was decided. Read it with the reasoning, procedure and facts.
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Advocate General opinion
Analysis presented to the Court of Justice of the European Union in some cases. It informs the debate but is not the judgment.
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Archival call number
Identifier assigned to an archival unit so it can be retrieved. Record it with the institution, fonds and description.
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Archive fonds
Documents created or received by a person or organisation during its activity. Their origin helps interpret an individual item.
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Finding aid
Inventory or guide describing holdings and call numbers. It points to documents but its summary does not replace reading an item.
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Digitised edition
Digital version of an identifiable edition. Separate the work’s date, the copy’s date and its online publication.
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Design right
Intellectual property relating to a product’s appearance in a territory and protection state. Distinguish it from a trade mark or patent.
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Office of origin
Authority where an intellectual property right is filed or registered. Aggregators may show several offices with different coverage.
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Appeal status
Dated indication of a known challenge to a decision. A published decision may still change through the procedure.
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Cited passage
Page, view, paragraph or exact passage supporting a claim in a document. It enables a check beyond a general link.
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Statistical unit
Person, establishment, transaction or area represented by one observation. Similarly named series may count different units.
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Series break
Discontinuity caused by a changed definition, method, coverage or base year. An apparent trend may reflect that break.
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Statistical revision
Change to an already published figure after new information or methodological improvement. Keep each extraction date and version.
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Data distribution
File, API or other concrete representation of a dataset. One catalogue entry may point to distributions with different formats or dates.
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File checksum
Digest calculated from a file to identify the exact version processed. A matching checksum does not establish data accuracy.
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Metadata quality
Extent to which producer, licence, resources and coverage are documented. It does not directly measure record accuracy.
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Hero image
The visual representing a page topic in its HTML content. It should agree with the title and context.
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Responsive image variant
An image version suited to screen width or density. It avoids unnecessary transfer while preserving a fallback source.
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Image caption
Visible text placing an image in context, such as subject, date or source, without overclaiming.
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EXIF metadata
Information embedded in some image files, such as description, creator or rights. It guarantees no search ranking.
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Image rights metadata
Information about image owner, licence or rights-acquisition page; always check the original licence.
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@id identifier
Stable URI joining nodes in a JSON-LD graph. Person, article and page should retain separate identities.
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Rich result eligibility
A page meeting supported types, properties and provider rules. Eligibility does not guarantee rich result display.

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Start with the topic: Enter one or two specific terms: citation, CSV or provenance. Every word must be present, so a long sentence can exclude useful pages.
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DEEPER READING / PRACTICE

Turn internal search into a useful user journey

A query produces several close results. Reading should help to distinguish the need definition folder, detailed method and implementation tool.

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Priority checks

Formulate a specific need and then try neighboring terms. Read the descriptions and select the type of resource according to the searched step: understand, run or control.

Interpretation pitfalls

The first result is not always the best document to the context. An absence can come from the vocabulary used rather than a lack of content.

Working record to retain

A short route connects a need definition page, a guide and a checklist. Maintaining unresolved questions helps to rebuild research.

PRACTICAL CASE / WORKED EXAMPLE

A natural requirement does not match the exact title

The following case illustrates an approach to defining the need. Situations are pedagogical: they serve to examine the choices and conditions of success, without describing a fulfilled mission or announcing a guaranteed result.

Example context

A reader is looking for how to check a number, while the resources use the word indicator. The results must allow to continue despite a different formulation of the title.

Suggested approach

Try the neighboring terms and read the descriptions. Differentiate methods of calculation, comparison and verification of sources. Choose the resource that corresponds to the actually sought-by-step.

Conclusion and next step

Research becomes a path of solution. The questions still open serve to clarify the next query instead of multiplying the words without clear intention.

Questions for deeper practice

How do you improve a search without losing the initial need?

Keep the starting question and then specify the object, operation and resource type. Useful results give a complementary vocabulary, but their title should not automatically replace the reader's target.

DETAILED WORKSHOP / APPLICATION

Refine a query for the task to carry out

01 / Prepare the necessary information
Describe the initial question and the desired result. Identify the object, operation and type of resource that could help: file, method or tool.
02 / Carry out the approach
Try a formulation and read the descriptions. Release the useful terms and test the variants without giving up the intention. Compare the resources found according to their contribution to the route.
03 / Examine an alternative situation
If the results are close but too general, specify the operation or scope. A well-classed page is not necessarily the one that meets the searched step.
04 / Decide on the next step
Research is useful when it leads to a resource whose response can be identified. Open questions are used to prepare for the next consultation.
05 / Hand over the verification records
Keep a short track with request, resource and supplement. The reader can restart his work without repaired the tests that have led to useful content.

ANNOTATED WORKING DOCUMENT / REVIEW GRID

A track record from a request

The note retains question, tried formulations, useful results and next resource. It distinguishes the exploration vocabulary from the initial goal of the reader.

On a small screen, scroll the grid horizontally to read all three columns.

Example situations to assess
Observation	Supported interpretation	Next step
A resource responds to the desired operation.	The result can serve as a useful step in the course.	Keep the passage and choose the necessary supplement.
The results remain general despite the good topic.	The request must specify action, object or scope.	Try an appropriate formulation without losing the initial question.
The first result has the word but not the answer.	The presence of the term does not prove its relevance.	Read the descriptions and compare the contribution of resources.

Reviewing the working document

The final verification verifies that each step reduces an open question. A link list is not yet a useful path if the reader cannot explain what each page brings.

REPORTING / EXAMPLE WORDING

Presentation of results: Turn internal search into a useful user journey

Point to clarify

A search result must be judged according to its contribution to the searched operation.

Before handing over

Check that the track keeps the initial question despite the vocabulary variants.

Example of a qualified conclusion

The resource selected meets the described stage of the need. The questions still open guidelines the next consultation and remain distinct from the answer found.