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Glossary

  • Bring Your Own Data checked by automation only
    The pattern of encoding institutional governance data in the AI Risk Ontology schema so it is served alongside the public frameworks.

  • Control / Action checked by automation only
    The mitigation side of the model - what an organisation does or deploys against a risk; served by the /control and /action endpoints.

  • Crosswalk checked by automation only
    A generated mapping of equivalent concepts across two taxonomies, replacing hand-built spreadsheet crosswalks.

  • Evaluation checked by automation only, still a draft
    A benchmark or test measuring a risk or a capability, linked to its datasets and tasks; served by the /evaluation endpoint.

  • Incident checked by automation only, still a draft
    A documented occurrence of a risk, carrying its source and linked back to the risks it demonstrates; served by the /incident endpoint.

  • Obligation checked by automation only
    A framework-imposed requirement together with the evidence categories that demonstrate compliance; served by the /obligation endpoint.

  • Risk checked by automation only
    A named, identified harm carrying a persistent identifier, defined by one taxonomy and mappable to equivalents in others.

  • Taxonomy checked by automation only
    A framework’s catalogue of risks and controls, and the unit each BYOD data file and each --isDefinedByTaxonomy query is scoped to.