Data Glossary: Abbreviations, Organizations & Terms
The continuously updated table below lists and describes abbreviations, organizations, and terms relevant to the use of data displayed and used on flaggeo.com.
| Term | Description |
| Banner | A banner is a flag that is fixed to a horizontal pole |
| Bicolour | a two-colored flag whose field is divided into two equal parts, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency; secret service and creator of “The World Factbook”, the main source of data used by this website [7] |
| ccTLD | country code top-level domain: a top-level-domain which is built upon the ISO-3166 standard and represents domains of a country, event though they might also be used in a different context. e.g.: .de (germany), .fr (france) [3] |
| gTLD | generic top-level domain: is a transnational top-level domain. The most wide-spread gTLD is .com (commercial) [3] |
| Heraldry | Heraldry is the art and science of designing and studying coats of arms and other symbols of identity. |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization. ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization, which defines standards across a vast amount of fields and, which are agreed by an international committee of experts. [1] |
| ISO-3166 | The standard ISO-3166 has the purpose to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that can be used when referring to countries and their subdivisions. It is build on codes, and does not define the names of the countries. This is because codes are more reliable than the names, which change depending on the used language. [2] The ccTLDs are also built upon the ISO-3166. |
| The World Factbook | Collection of data of 258 countries and territories providing basic information on their history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues. Maintained by the CIA. The main source of data used by this website. [7] |
| TLD | Top-level domain: A domain, an internet address, consists of multiple parts. The domain-suffix is called top-level domain. e.g.: .com is the TLD of www.google.com [3] |
| Unicode Consortium | The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation, which develops, maintains and promotes internationalization standards for software and data, particularly the Unicode Standard. [6] |
| Unicode Standard | The Unicode Standard specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. [5] |
Sources and Additional Resources:
- https://www.iso.org/home.html
- https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html
- https://www.ionos.at/digitalguide/domains/domainendungen/was-ist-eine-generische-top-level-domain-gtld/
- https://home.unicode.org/
- https://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html
- https://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
- https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
- Book: Flaggen dieser Welt – Form, Entstehung, Bedeutung und Geschichte