Basic Definitions
Application Programmer’s Interface (API)
- An encapsulation of functionalities common to many applications into reusable modules.
API Implementation
- The instantiation of an API’s functionality in software that is bound to a software language.
SEDRIS Transmittal
- A collection of DRM objects that can be created or accessed via a particular implementation of the SEDRIS API, and when conveyed from one location, system or human organization, to another, all the parts (files, etc.) must be conveyed together in order for the data to be fully accessible by the software applications that invoke the read API implementation.