3 Terms, abbreviated terms and conventions

3.1 Overview

It is assumed that basic concepts of OPC UA information modelling (OPC 10000-5) are understood in this document.

Note that OPC UA terms and terms defined in this document are italicized in the document.

3.2 OPC UA for Cloud Library terms

3.2.1 Cloud Library

An online database of OPC UA NameSpaces that can be accessed through a REST-style interface (SwaggerV3/OpenAPI), as well as Graph Query Language (GraphQL) and OPC UA Server Sessionless Method calls. In V1, only REST-style interfaces will be used.

3.3 Abbreviated terms

APIApplication Programming Interface
JSONJava Script Object Notation
RESTRepresentational State Transfer
GraphQLGraph Query Language
OpenAPIOpen Application Programming Interface