glossary

name	glossary
description	Read when naming anything user-facing - GUI text, docs, public Python API names, arguments, docstrings, or error messages. Gives the approved LightlyStudio term for each concept and the wording to avoid, currently covering annotations, annotation classes, annotation sources, and labeling.

Glossary and Naming

Terminology for LightlyStudio.

Use the Term for all user-facing parts: the GUI, the docs, and the public Python API (names, arguments, docstrings, and error messages). Internal implementation names (database tables and columns, resolvers, REST JSON fields, and the generated frontend client) are exempt.

Add new topics as their own ## section below.

Annotations

Concept	Term	Python identifier	Avoid
A classification, object-detection box, or segmentation mask attached to a sample	annotation	-	label, annotation label
The category of an annotation, e.g. "dog", "cat"	annotation class	class_name	label, label class, annotation label
A group of annotations, e.g. ground truth, a model's predictions	annotation source	annotation_source	annotation collection, collection, collection name, label source
Creating annotations	labeling	-	the noun 'label'