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| Application Profile |
A set of elements with associated descriptions of usage in
a particular context. |
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| BIC |
Book Industry Communication |
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BSR |
Basic Semantics Register. An ISO standard which identifies
and defines semantic components for use in data exchange. |
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| CIMI |
Computer Interchange of Museum Information. |
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Container |
A Warwick Framework container is the unit used to aggregate
metadata packages. |
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Cross Walk |
A mapping from the elements of one namespace to the elements of another namespace. |
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| Data Element / Element |
The realization of a semantic unit in a particular namespace. |
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DESIRE |
Development of a European Service for Information and Research |
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DOI |
Digital Object Identifier |
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DTD |
Document Type Definition |
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DC |
Dublin Core: a metadata format defined on the basis of
international consensus which defines a minimal information
resource description for use in a WWW environment.
The term 'Dublin' is used as Dublin, Ohio is the location of OCLC's headquarters. |
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| EAN |
European Article Number. A system for the identification of
products, services utilities, transport units and
locations. The information is represented in standard bar-codes. |
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EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange. The exchange of structured
data messages to enable automated transactions between application systems. |
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EDIFACT |
EDI For Administrations, Commerce and Transport. The international EDI standard messaging syntax under the responsibility of the UN, for trading transactions in all industries. Also known as UN-EDIFACT. |
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Element Usage |
A description of the interpretation of a particular element for use in specific contexts. Unlike an element definition, an element usage definition does not introduce a new element name - it describes a local usage of an existing element. |
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Enumerated List Scheme |
A scheme which specifies a set of valid values - scheme elements. Scheme elements may be registered within the registry, or they may be
indicated via a reference to an external definition. |
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| FGDC |
The Federal Geographic Data Committee. |
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| GILS |
Global Information Locator Service |
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| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
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HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol. The protocol used for
communication between Web clients and servers. |
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| IFLA |
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. |
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ISBD |
International Standard Bibliographic Description. There are
seven specific ISBDs as well as the general ISBD(G):
monographs -(M), serial publications -(S), cartographic
material -(CM), non-book material -(NBM), printed music
-(PM), antiquarian publications -(A), computer files -(CF). |
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ISBN |
International Standard Book Number. |
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ISO/IEC 11179 |
Specification and Standardization of Data Elements |
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| MARC |
MAchine Readable Cataloguing. A family of formats based on ISO 2709 for the exchange of bibliographic and other related information in machine readable form. For example, USMARC and UNIMARC. |
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Metadata |
Information about a publication as opposed to the content of the publication; includes not only bibliographic description but also other relevant information such as its subject, price, conditions of use, etc. |
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MIME |
Multimedia mail enhancements to the Internet mail standard. |
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| Namespace |
A scoping device used for uniquely identifying registered entities. Identically named entities in different namespaces can be distinguished. A namespace is identified via a URL including a name and version identifier. |
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NDIS |
National Document Information Service. |
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NISO |
National Information Standards Organization |
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| OPAC |
Online Public Access Catalogue. |
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| PICS |
Platform for Internet Content Selection, an infrastructure for
associating labels with Internet content. |
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PURL |
Persistent Uniform Resource Locator |
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| Registration Authority |
Any organization authorized to register data elements. |
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Rule Set Scheme |
A scheme specified by a set of rules that define or describe valid values. |
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| Schema |
A set of metadata elements representing the attributes of a resource. Each element will have a name and associated semantics. |
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Semantic Unit |
An informational element described independently of a specific namespace. |
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SGML |
(ISO 8879) Standard Generalised Mark-up Language. ISO standard for document description, separating contents and structure. |
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Sub Element |
An Element which refines the definition of an existing element. The sub element inherits the defiition associated with the element it refines. |
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| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. The standard way to give the address of a source of information on the WWW. It contains four different parts: the protocol type, the machine name, the directory path and the file name. For example: http://WWW2.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html |
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URN |
Uniform Resource Name |
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| Value Components Scheme |
A scheme which splits a value domain into multiple value components. A valid value is then made up of a tuple of valid values from the value
components. Note that it is the tuple that is a valid value - not each of the values associated with value components. |
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