Glossary & Terminology

Shared terms and aliases used across Zyra.

  • Stages (preferred): import β†’ process β†’ simulate β†’ decide β†’ visualize β†’ narrate β†’ verify β†’ export

  • Stage aliases: acquire/ingest β†’ process/transform β†’ visualize/render β†’ export/disseminate (legacy: decimate)

  • Connectors: source/destination integrations under zyra.connectors with ingest/egress and shared backends.

  • Transform: lightweight helpers in zyra.transform (e.g., frames metadata, dataset JSON updates).

  • Frames metadata: JSON summary produced from a frames directory (used for videos or galleries).

  • Dataset JSON: lightweight registry or manifest of datasets/products with IDs and metadata.

  • Extras: optional dependency groups (e.g., connectors, processing, visualization, interactive, focused grib2|netcdf|geotiff).

  • Interactive: optional Folium/Plotly outputs for web-friendly visuals.

  • Legacy terms: acquisition (use connectors), decimate (use export), datatransfer (alias of connectors).

  • Provenance: logs/metadata capturing inputs, parameters, and outputs for reproducibility.

See also

  • Workflow-Stages.md, Install-Extras.md, Stage-Examples.md