Assistant Editor: deputises for the chief editor and has a special responsibility for coordinating the import of bulk data into RFLC.

Chief Editor: the highest level content administrator for the Rural Finance Learning Centre.

Chief Editor's Choice: the chief editor may mark any knowledge object or news item as "Chief Editor's Choice" if he or she thinks that it is of a particular high quality or of special topical importance. Knowledge objects so marked will be displayed with two stars.

Discussion: RFLC members may suggest adding details of an existing electronic discussion list or suggest the creation of a discussion within the RFLC.

Editor's Choice: an editor may mark any knowledge object within his or her topic as "Editor's Choice" if he or she thinks that it is of a particular high quality or of special topical importance. Knowledge objects so marked will be displayed with one star.

Event: a type of knowledge object submitted to a topic by a registered member or added and/or uploaded by the topic editor or chief editor. An event may be a conference, training event, meeting, virtual meeting, workshop or staff exchange programme relevant to the worldview.

Inbox: part of the my info section of RFLC that comprises a list of items awaiting editor action or notification of editorial action taken on items that a member submits for review.

Knowledge Objects: any data in any format that can be uploaded to the Rural Finance Learning Centre Community Directory Server (CDS); entered into the RFLC CDS via suggest/add forms (e.g., documents, contacts, multimedia, news, events) or linked to the RFLC CDS (e.g., websites). Knowledge Objects (KOs) can only be submitted by registered members.

Linked Topic: a linked topic appears in the list of subtopics, with an "@" after the title to distinguish it from actual subtopics. A linked topic is actually a subtopic elsewhere in the system. A linked topic is extremely relevant to the current topic

Member: users may use the system anonymously or they can register and gain a RFLC member password. A registered member can participate in discussions and submit items to be added to RFLC.

Member Group: a group of RFLC members; any permissions assigned to a member group apply to all members of that group. This is used to restrict or control access to certain topics.

News: a type of Knowledge Object submitted to the News gateway by a registered member or added and uploaded by the topic editor or chief editor.

Ontology: a vocabulary of terms and some specification of their meaning. RFLC has used a loosely constructed ontology to provide keywords to be attached to the knowledge in the system.

Parent Topic: the connected topic one level up in the hierarchy from the current topic. A topic may only have one parent topic.

Permissions: a permission dictates the action that may be executed on a topic. Examples of Permissions include: read only; submit knowledge; edit; and delete.

Subtopic: equivalent to a sub-category and comprises a connected topic one level down from the current topic. A topic may have many subtopics.

Topic: equivalent to a subject category and comprises a grouping of knowledge within a specific subject area.

Topic Editor: a registered member of the RFLC who has been selected by the CABFIN partnership to act as a content administrator for a particular topic and/or topic tree.

Topic Tree: a topic and its subtopics and their subtopics, etc., etc.

Worldview: a gateway entry that provides an access route to the information in the RFLC. Worldviews include: training, resources, news, discussions and contacts.