Glossary of terms

Fact of Death

The collection of Australian deaths registered with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (RBDM) of each jurisdiction. Fact of Death is often abbreviated to FOD.

Datasource

Complete collection of data available to search against. Data sets are defined upon each datasource.

E.g. FOD.

Data Set

Searching and reference data definitions are defined within a Data set. Each Data set outlines which match fields and reference fields are returned.

Exact Match

An EXACT match is where all data fields provided by the end user must match ‘exactly’ against the data held in the Australian Death Check.

Match field

Searching term within a data set. These could be text or data fields which clients provide their values to match against the Data set.

E.g. the deceased date of birth may be a match field within a Data set. The deceased date of birth is available in the Datasource and made available to match against in the Data set.

Partial Match

A PARTIAL match is where the first ‘part’ of the data field as provided by the end user matches against the data held in the Australian Death Check.

The first ‘part’ is the text data provided prior to any spaces. For example Jane Marie as a given name would match against Jane.

Date fields are matched by/with the year only. For example 01/01/1983 would match against the value of 1983.

Reference field

Supporting fields returned in match results. These fields are not necessarily able to be matched against and are returned for the matched record.

E.g. the deceased date of death may be defined as a returned reference field when a match is found against the deceased’s name and date of birth.

Client

System access clients and individual users that have Data sets made available to them. The ADC team will provide each client an account.

API Key

Unique identifier for the client’s access over web services.

Endpoint

System web service calls are made against defined endpoints for the type of search being performed.