CWDS Glossary

The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.

The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.

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Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

A documented process or set of procedures to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

Discovery/Discovery Phase

​The first of the four CWDS Digital Service development stages used to report point-in-time status of each Digital Service (e.g., Intake). The objective of this stage is to conduct User research and explore stakeholder needs (e.g., specific client or policy requirements). The outputs of this stage include, but are not limited to, the following: prioritized list of epics and User Stories, Alpha phase goals, and an initial set of User Personas.

Disposition

In the context of child welfare, a determination made by a social service agency that evidence is or is not sufficient under state law to conclude that maltreatment occurred.  A disposition is applied to each alleged maltreatment in a report and to the report itself. There are three identified outcomes: substantiated, inconclusive or unfounded.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

A cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet

DocTool

A custom-developed tool containing design information for the CWS/CMS.

Documentation

Both external to the Product and internal to the Product materials for both the process and Product and includes printed materials (e.g., quick start cards, manuals and books), computer-readable text (e.g., plain text files, hyperlinked help systems and web pages), audio and video (e.g., computer-based video files, video tapes and telephone-based question and answer service) and built-in documentation (e.g., built-in manuals and source code comments). This definition supersedes the definition for Documentation provided in the CWS-CARES General Provisions - Information Technology, Section 1.

Document Imaging

The online storage, retrieval, and management of electronic document images. The main method of capturing images is by scanning paper documents. Document imaging systems replace large paper-intensive operations.

Document Management System (DMS)

A system used to track, manage, and store documents.

Domain Modeling

A process for capturing the main concepts of a domain (i.e., person, incident, or an allegation) and defining what data connects those concepts together. Used to inform data model design and configuration decisions.
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