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| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption programme that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language; the new file format to upload data from November 1, 2017 |
| .Dot20 | Plain text format; the file format that can be used to upload data till November 1, 2017 |
| API | Application Programming Interface (API): a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components |
| ION | Issuing Organisation Number (ION) which is provided by ICCBBA to organisations listing in BMDW the Search & Match Service (read more about ION on: https://www.iccbba.org/tech-library/iccbba-documents/standards-documents/global-registration-identifier-for-donors-ion-database-and-grid-rules |
| XSD | XSD defines what elements and attributes may appear in an XML document; annually a new version of the XSD will be released; the current version is: 2.1 |
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