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data anchor

Definition​

Data anchors are digests of digital data, that uniquely identify this data. The digest is the anchor and can be used to identify - and point to the data at the same time.

Anchoring data​

The act of creating the digest of arbitrary data and then hook (or reference) the digest to (in) another data structure is called 'anchoring data'.

SADs are a type of data anchors.

Beware​

Link anchors are a totally different concepts.