## Project vocabulary — canonical terms: use VERBATIM in any language, marked `like this` ```text «indexing» `index` an ordinary public document that holds one entry per indexed object, plus its own field declaration (never: catalogue, registry, listing) `deposit` a bare object reference left in an index document's inbox — open to anyone, and never an instruction (never: message, submission, request) `curate` the owner resolving the references deposited on its index and adding what it can (never: process, ingest, sync) `entry` what an index holds for one indexed object — its NURI and its value for the index's field (never: row, record, item) ```