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1 Purpose
This document establishes the authoritative entries and maintenance rules for Controlled Terminology Register within the controlled Good Taste Awards standards system.
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2 Scope
This document applies to the requirements, decisions, records, controls, and outputs expressly identified under Controlled Terminology Register. Award scope and exclusions are controlled by GTA-STD-100; this document shall not create an additional award dimension. Operational prerequisites identified here affect assessment validity and never constitute product certification.
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3 Authority and interpretation
The Standards Authority owns GTA-REG-002; the Standards Authority approves it. Normative verbs, controlled terms, stable requirement identities, policy constants, and generated representations shall be interpreted under GTA-GOV-002, GTA-GOV-005, and the controlled registers.
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3.1 Registered relationships
| Relationship | Direction | Related document |
|---|---|---|
uses_terms_from | inbound | GTA-GOV-002 |
controls | inbound | GTA-GOV-005 |
publishes | inbound | GTA-DATA-004 |
governed_by | outbound | GTA-GOV-001 |
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4 Requirements
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GTA-REG-002-R001 — Preferred term
The Standards Authority shall assign one authoritative English expression to each controlled concept.
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GTA-REG-002-R002 — Definition
The Standards Authority shall state necessary and sufficient meaning within the Good Taste Awards system.
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GTA-REG-002-R003 — Term class
The Standards Authority shall classify governance, method, assessor, sample, decision, data, claim, publication, or operational terms.
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GTA-REG-002-R004 — Aliases
The Standards Authority shall identify permitted search aliases without granting them normative authority.
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GTA-REG-002-R005 — Prohibited usage
The Standards Authority shall identify expressions that create ambiguity, external authority, or unsupported meaning.
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GTA-REG-002-R006 — Capitalization
The Standards Authority shall preserve controlled product, role, star, and system names.
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GTA-REG-002-R007 — Cross-reference
The Standards Authority shall link terms to owning clauses, data fields, and public explanations.
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GTA-REG-002-R008 — Translation
The Standards Authority shall preserve English authority and record verified accessibility equivalents.
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GTA-REG-002-R009 — Change
The Standards Authority shall assess every dependent document, field, interface, test, and publication before amendment.
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GTA-REG-002-R010 — Term validation
The Standards Authority shall detect undefined controlled terms, duplicate meanings, circular definitions, and conflicting use.
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5 Controlled terminology register
| Term ID | Preferred term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
GTA-TERM-001 | active version | The controlled version resolved by the document register for current use. |
GTA-TERM-002 | activation | The authorized change that permits a controlled version to govern Good Taste Awards activity. |
GTA-TERM-003 | approval authority | The Good Taste Awards role empowered to authorize a controlled document or decision. |
GTA-TERM-004 | authoritative language | The sole language whose controlled text governs interpretation and application. |
GTA-TERM-005 | clause | An addressable unit of controlled content identified by a clause number and stable key. |
GTA-TERM-006 | controlled document | A Good Taste Awards instrument governed by an identifier, version, authority, status, and change control. |
GTA-TERM-007 | content hash | A machine-generated value used to verify that controlled content has not changed. |
GTA-TERM-008 | document family | A controlled classification that identifies the purpose and authority level of a document. |
GTA-TERM-009 | document number | The permanent human-readable identifier assigned to a controlled document. |
GTA-TERM-010 | document owner | The Good Taste Awards role accountable for the accuracy, control, and maintenance of a document. |
GTA-TERM-011 | governing content | Content that establishes authority, hierarchy, control, or interpretation across the standards system. |
GTA-TERM-012 | informative content | Content provided for explanation that does not establish an obligation. |
GTA-TERM-013 | normative content | Content that establishes a requirement, prohibition, recommendation, or permission. |
GTA-TERM-014 | permission | A controlled allowance expressed by the word may. |
GTA-TERM-015 | prohibition | A controlled restriction expressed by the words shall not. |
GTA-TERM-016 | recommendation | A preferred but non-mandatory practice expressed by the word should. |
GTA-TERM-017 | requirement | A mandatory and verifiable obligation expressed by the word shall. |
GTA-TERM-018 | stable key | A permanent semantic identifier used to resolve a document or clause independently of display numbering. |
GTA-TERM-019 | superseded version | A preserved controlled version replaced by another authorized version. |
GTA-TERM-020 | version | A controlled numeric identifier that distinguishes one authorized content state from another. |
GTA-TERM-021 | assessment | A controlled blind evaluation of a submitted product under the Good Taste Awards method. |
GTA-TERM-022 | assessor | A qualified individual authorized to provide an independent product response. |
GTA-TERM-023 | consumer-side assessor | An assessor assigned to the consumer-side composition track as either a screened potential consumer or a screened food enthusiast for the defined target population. |
GTA-TERM-024 | professional assessor | An assessor qualified through relevant food, drink, culinary, retail, buying, production, hospitality, writing, or category experience. |
GTA-TERM-025 | assessment panel | The complete set of valid assessors whose evidence contributes to a decision point for one product. |
GTA-TERM-026 | valid assessment | An independent response that satisfies identity, eligibility, completion, timing, and integrity requirements. |
GTA-TERM-027 | independent response | An assessor response submitted and locked before the assessor receives group opinion or result information. |
GTA-TERM-028 | Overall Liking | The assessor's integrated hedonic judgment of how much the product is liked as a complete tasting experience. |
GTA-TERM-029 | descriptive response | A structured observation that explains aroma, flavour, texture, balance, integration, finish, or defect perception. |
GTA-TERM-030 | sensory pleasure | The experienced enjoyment produced by the product's aroma, taste, texture, balance, integration, and finish. |
GTA-TERM-031 | taste-only scope | The boundary that excludes non-sensory commercial, health, nutritional, service, and identity factors from the award result. |
GTA-TERM-032 | target population | The predefined group used to establish assessor relevance and the permitted interpretation boundary without, by itself, implying population-representative inference. |
GTA-TERM-033 | candidate state | The level or progression status calculated from locked valid responses before professional confirmation. |
GTA-TERM-034 | star decision | The authorized result produced by controlled calculation, professional confirmation, and result authorization. |
GTA-TERM-035 | no star | The result assigned when a product does not satisfy a star level under the controlled decision rules. |
GTA-TERM-036 | One Star | The Good Taste Awards result meaning excellent taste and worth choosing. |
GTA-TERM-037 | Two Stars | The Good Taste Awards result meaning outstanding taste and worth seeking out. |
GTA-TERM-038 | Three Stars | The Good Taste Awards result meaning exceptional taste and worth making a special effort to experience. |
GTA-TERM-039 | progression | The authorized movement of a product to an assessment point requiring additional valid responses. |
GTA-TERM-040 | open public feedback | Voluntary public opinion collected outside the controlled star decision and excluded from that decision. |
GTA-TERM-041 | blind assessment | Assessment in which prohibited product identity and commercial information are unavailable to assessors. |
GTA-TERM-042 | blind code | A randomly assigned presentation identifier that does not reveal product identity or result status. |
GTA-TERM-043 | identity key | The restricted mapping between a submitted product and its blind code. |
GTA-TERM-044 | product | The defined food or drink configuration entered for assessment. |
GTA-TERM-045 | submitted product | The product identity, formulation, format, and declared use represented by the accepted submission. |
GTA-TERM-046 | product version | A controlled distinction between materially different formulations, formats, strengths, or preparation instructions. |
GTA-TERM-047 | batch | A traceable production grouping represented by the samples used in an assessment. |
GTA-TERM-048 | sample | The physical quantity of a submitted product received and controlled for assessment. |
GTA-TERM-049 | assessment portion | The controlled net amount presented to one assessor for one independent assessment. |
GTA-TERM-050 | retail unit | A complete commercial package supplied by the submitting organization. |
GTA-TERM-051 | preparation loss | The controlled allowance for product lost through opening, trimming, cooking, transfer, or equipment contact. |
GTA-TERM-052 | retained quantity | The controlled quantity held for identity verification, exception review, or authorized reassessment. |
GTA-TERM-053 | exception allowance | The controlled additional quantity reserved for a defined operational exception. |
GTA-TERM-054 | chain of custody | The continuous record of sample receipt, control, movement, access, preparation, use, and disposition. |
GTA-TERM-055 | decanting | The controlled transfer of product from identity-bearing packaging to neutral preparation or presentation ware. |
GTA-TERM-056 | presentation | The controlled delivery of a prepared assessment portion to an assessor. |
GTA-TERM-057 | serving order | The assigned sequence in which an assessor receives products. |
GTA-TERM-058 | carryover | An influence of a preceding product on the perception of a following product. |
GTA-TERM-059 | palate cleanser | A neutral material used under controlled conditions to reduce carryover. |
GTA-TERM-060 | balanced allocation | A product assignment arrangement that controls differences in appearance frequency, pairing, and serving position. |
GTA-TERM-061 | session | A controlled set of assessment activities conducted under one approved session plan. |
GTA-TERM-062 | session plan | The controlled record of products, assessors, roles, allocation, order, preparation, and integrity controls for a session. |
GTA-TERM-063 | randomization | The controlled assignment of codes, orders, positions, or allocations by a method not chosen for a preferred result. |
GTA-TERM-064 | order balance | The control of serving-position frequency across assessors and products. |
GTA-TERM-065 | response lock | The irreversible control that prevents an original independent response from being overwritten. |
GTA-TERM-066 | panel discussion | The moderated exchange that occurs after response lock to explain perceptions and support result confirmation and comments. |
GTA-TERM-067 | Standards Authority | The controlled role accountable for approval and interpretation of the Good Taste Awards standards system. |
GTA-TERM-068 | Method Authority | The controlled role accountable for the assessment construct, decision method, validation requirements, and methodological interpretation. |
GTA-TERM-069 | Assessment Operations Lead | The controlled role accountable for entry, session, preparation, presentation, and operational completion decisions. |
GTA-TERM-070 | Sample and Blind Control Officer | The controlled role accountable for product identity separation, blind codes, sample custody, storage, movement, and authorized identity release. |
GTA-TERM-071 | Panel Lead | The controlled role accountable for assessor briefing, independent response completion, discussion discipline, minority evidence, and comment evidence. |
GTA-TERM-072 | Decision Officer | The controlled role accountable for response-set verification, deterministic candidate calculation, confirmation control, and result authorization. |
GTA-TERM-073 | conflict of interest | A relationship or interest capable of impairing or appearing to impair independent assessment or decision-making. |
GTA-TERM-074 | recusal | The recorded removal of a person from an assessment or decision because of a conflict or disqualifying condition. |
GTA-TERM-075 | invalid assessment | An assessment that cannot support a result because a mandatory integrity condition was not met. |
GTA-TERM-076 | procedural reassessment | A new controlled assessment authorized because the earlier process was invalid or materially compromised. |
GTA-TERM-077 | deviation | A recorded departure from an approved requirement, parameter, instruction, or session plan. |
GTA-TERM-078 | incident | An event that may affect sample integrity, assessor independence, data integrity, decision validity, confidentiality, or continuity. |
GTA-TERM-079 | corrective action | Action taken to remove the cause of a confirmed process failure and prevent recurrence. |
GTA-TERM-080 | root cause | The underlying controllable reason that a process failure occurred. |
GTA-TERM-081 | raw response | The original assessor input preserved before transformation, aggregation, interpretation, or correction. |
GTA-TERM-082 | record | Preserved evidence that an action, observation, authorization, or result occurred. |
GTA-TERM-083 | append-only correction | A correction that preserves the original value and adds the corrected value, reason, authority, and lineage. |
GTA-TERM-084 | audit trail | An ordered record of creation, access, calculation, authorization, correction, and status change. |
GTA-TERM-085 | decision engine | The controlled deterministic logic that calculates candidate state from valid locked inputs and policy constants. |
GTA-TERM-086 | policy constant | A controlled numeric, logical, or coded value used consistently across documents and systems. |
GTA-TERM-087 | schema | A machine-readable definition of permitted structure, fields, values, and validation conditions. |
GTA-TERM-088 | content block | A typed unit of document content such as a paragraph, requirement, list, table, formula, note, or example. |
GTA-TERM-089 | clause tree | The ordered parent-child structure of addressable clauses within a document. |
GTA-TERM-090 | publication interface | The controlled machine access through which standards content and related registers are delivered. |
GTA-TERM-091 | active route | A convenience location that resolves the active controlled version of a document. |
GTA-TERM-092 | fixed-version route | A permanent location that resolves one specified controlled version. |
GTA-TERM-093 | generated output | A rendered file or response produced from the authoritative controlled source. |
GTA-TERM-094 | Good Taste Publication Index | The zero-to-one-hundred non-normative display transformation that does not govern candidate calculation, progression, confirmation, review, or star authorization. |
GTA-TERM-095 | relationship | A controlled semantic link between documents, clauses, forms, records, fields, tests, or versions. |
GTA-TERM-096 | traceability | The ability to follow a requirement, action, record, value, and decision through their controlled relationships. |
GTA-TERM-097 | access control | The rule set that permits or denies a role's ability to view, create, alter, authorize, or export information. |
GTA-TERM-098 | direct identifier | Information that directly reveals the identity of an organization, product, or person. |
GTA-TERM-099 | pseudonymous key | A controlled identifier that supports linkage without directly revealing identity. |
GTA-TERM-100 | export | A controlled representation of source content or records in an approved format. |
GTA-TERM-101 | award mark | The controlled Good Taste Awards visual identifier permitted for an authorized awarded product. |
GTA-TERM-102 | certificate | A controlled statement recording the product identity and authorized Good Taste Awards result. |
GTA-TERM-103 | digital badge | A machine-verifiable digital representation of an authorized Good Taste Awards result. |
GTA-TERM-104 | result statement | The approved wording used to communicate an assessment result. |
GTA-TERM-105 | approved statement | Controlled public wording authorized for a defined result and product scope. |
GTA-TERM-106 | product comment | A concise evidence-based explanation derived from locked responses and controlled panel discussion. |
GTA-TERM-107 | comment evidence | The valid response content and discussion record that supports a product comment. |
GTA-TERM-108 | result correction | An authorized change that preserves the original result record and states the corrected result and reason. |
GTA-TERM-109 | result withdrawal | The controlled removal of authority to use a result or associated award representation. |
GTA-TERM-110 | review request | A formal request to examine whether an assessment or result followed the applicable controlled requirements. |
GTA-TERM-111 | review outcome | The authorized conclusion of a procedural review. |
GTA-TERM-112 | star claim | A public statement that a defined product holds a specified Good Taste Awards star result. |
GTA-TERM-113 | comparative claim | A statement of preference, superiority, equivalence, non-inferiority, unsurpassed performance, defined-set best status, or rank involving two or more products or a product and a defined comparator set. |
GTA-TERM-114 | product scope | The precise formulation, format, strength, market identity, and other controlled boundaries covered by a result. |
GTA-TERM-115 | claim scope | The products, markets, channels, wording, and conditions to which an approved statement applies. |
GTA-TERM-116 | award cycle | A controlled programme cycle identified without forming part of the permanent document number. |
GTA-TERM-117 | submitting organization | The entity authorized to enter a product and accept the applicable Good Taste Awards obligations. |
GTA-TERM-118 | eligibility | Satisfaction of the controlled conditions required for a product to enter or remain in assessment. |
GTA-TERM-119 | exclusion | A controlled condition that prevents a product, person, response, or claim from entering a defined process. |
GTA-TERM-120 | non-award result | The controlled result state assigned to an assessed product that receives no star. |
GTA-TERM-121 | Data and Publication Custodian | The controlled role accountable for data integrity, access, exports, comments, notices, publication state, and audit preservation. |
GTA-TERM-122 | Independent Reviewer | A competent controlled role that reviews material evidence or a decision without having created or altered the object under review. |
GTA-TERM-123 | potential consumer | A consumer-side assessor who could realistically consume or use the product within the predefined target-population criteria. |
GTA-TERM-124 | food enthusiast | A consumer-side assessor who satisfies potential-consumer relevance and demonstrates disciplined sensory observation without acquiring professional voting weight. |
GTA-TERM-125 | composition track | One of the two mutually exclusive panel-count classifications, consumer-side assessor or professional assessor, assigned to a voting assessor for one product route. |
GTA-TERM-126 | consumer-side subtype | The potential-consumer or food-enthusiast classification recorded within the consumer-side composition track without creating an additional vote. |
GTA-TERM-127 | strict consumer-side majority | A panel condition in which the number of valid consumer-side assessors is greater than one half of all valid assessors at the decision point. |
GTA-TERM-128 | sequential independent monadic assessment | Presentation in which each product receives its own independent response in an assigned sequence without requiring a direct comparison or cross-product choice. |
GTA-TERM-129 | liking lock | The immutable event that fixes the Overall Liking value or authorized inability state before explanatory questions are displayed or elicited. |
GTA-TERM-130 | completion lock | The immutable event that closes the complete independent response after all applicable explanatory evidence is recorded and before panel discussion. |
GTA-TERM-131 | professional confirmation | The bounded evidence-based disposition process that follows candidate calculation and cannot promote the candidate, alter a locked response, or replace the consumer-side majority. |
GTA-TERM-132 | independent professional review | The controlled resolution route used when no professional disposition has a strict majority, performed by a conflict-free Independent Reviewer with applicable professional qualification who did not participate in the original confirmation set and who does not add or alter liking evidence. |
GTA-TERM-133 | preserved level | A previously confirmed star level retained while additional evidence is collected solely to test eligibility for a higher level. |
GTA-TERM-134 | ordinary award result | The authorized product-specific result produced through the standard Good Taste Awards route and classified as non-comparative recognition. |
GTA-TERM-135 | non-comparative recognition | Recognition of one exact product against predefined award rules that does not state or imply preference, superiority, equivalence, rank, or population prevalence relative to other products. |
GTA-TERM-136 | comparative substantiation plan | A separately authorized pre-exposure plan that fixes the claim wording, endpoint, relevant population, comparator set, samples, design, analysis, decision criteria, and evidence-strength requirements for a comparative claim. |
GTA-TERM-137 | Public Primary Category | The single public-facing category assigned to an accepted entry for discovery, entry classification, and result publication. |
GTA-TERM-138 | Product Type | The controlled product form located within one Public Primary Category. |
GTA-TERM-139 | Evaluation Method Profile | The registered preparation and service route used to create the representative taste experience for an entry. |
GTA-TERM-140 | Method Variant | A registered overlay that refines an Evaluation Method Profile for a recurring product form or service condition. |
GTA-TERM-141 | Operational Category Module | The normative category module assigned to control preparation, presentation, service, measurement, evidence, and out-of-control action. |
GTA-TERM-142 | Sensory and Service Tag | A controlled descriptor for a preparation condition, persistence driver, or explanatory lens that does not create a second category or award criterion. |
GTA-TERM-143 | Target Population Relevance | Eligibility of an assessor within the predefined consumer scope without implying statistical population representativeness. |
GTA-TERM-144 | Product-Specific Instruction | An authorized instruction that supplies measurable settings where registered defaults do not resolve a valid representative route. |
Search aliases may improve retrieval but shall not replace the preferred term in normative content. Role names and star names shall preserve registered capitalization.
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6 Conformity and records
Conformity with Controlled Terminology Register requires evidence comprising the entry identity, owner, state, reference result, and activation decision. The record for each applicable GTA-REG-002 requirement shall permit reconstruction without relying on an unrecorded explanation.
Evidence created under GTA-REG-002 shall use stable identifiers, immutable event sequence numbers, and machine event timestamps. A correction shall be append-only. A nonconformity shall place the affected object in a non-releasable state until its consequence and authorized disposition are recorded. Role combination remains subject to the mandatory separation rules.