AI Communication Glossary

Plain-English definitions for terms used in AI communication, machine-readable website architecture, structured data, knowledge graphs, and AI interoperability.

A

AI-Ready Website
A website structured so that AI systems can discover, read, interpret, and cite it accurately, with schema markup, machine-readable endpoints, clear entity architecture, and well-organized content.

K

Knowledge Graph
A structured map of entities (people, places, organizations, concepts) and the relationships between them, used by AI systems to understand context beyond keywords.

S

Schema Markup
Structured data using Schema.org vocabulary, usually expressed as JSON-LD, that tells AI systems and search engines what type of content a webpage is and what it contains.
Structured Data
Information organized in a consistent, machine-readable format that AI systems can parse reliably without inferring meaning from visual layout or prose.