Term/acronym

Full name

URL

<indecs>

Interoperability of data in e-commerce systems

http://www.indecs.org/

AAP

Association of American Publishers

http://www.publishers.org/

ACH

Association for Computers and Humanities

http://www.ach.org/

ACL

Association for Computational Linguistics

http://www.aclweb.org/

ALA

American Library Association

http://www.ala.org/

ALLC

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

http://www.allc.org/

Ariadne

Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe

http://ariadne.unil.ch/

BIC

Book Industry Communication

http://www.bic.org.uk/

BISG

Book Industry Study Group

http://www.bisg.org/

BSR

Basic Semantics Register

http://forum.afnor.fr/afnor/WORK/AFNOR/GPN2/TC154WG1/

CC/PP

Composite Capability/Preference Profiles

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-CCPP/

CCSDS

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems

http://www.ccsds.org/

Cedars

CURL examples in digital archives

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/

CERIF

Common European Research Initiative Format

http://www.cordis.lu/cerif/

CIDOC

International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums

http://www.cidoc.icom.org/

CIMI

Computer Interchange of Museum Information

http://www.cimi.org/

CNRI

Corporation for National Research Initiatives

http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/

CORDIS

Community Research & Development Information Systems

http://www.cordis.lu/

DAML

DARPA Agent Markup Language

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

http://dublincore.org/

DDL

Data Definition Language

DOI

Digital Object Identifier

http://www.doi.org/

DTD

Document Type Definition

Dublin Core

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

http://dublincore.org/

EAD

Encoded Archival Description

http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

EBU

European Broadcasting Union

http://www.ebu.ch/

EBX

Electronic Book Exchange

http://www.ebxwg.org/

EDItEUR

European Group for Electronic Commerce in the Book and Serials Sector

http://www.editeur.org/

EEA

European Environmental Agency

http://www.eea.eu.int/

EPICS

EDItEUR Product Information Communication Standards

http://www.editeur.org/epics.html

ERGO

European Research Gateways Online

http://www.cordis.lu/ergo/

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

http://www.fgdc.gov/

FRANAR

Functional Requirements for Authority Numbers and Records

http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/annual/ann99.htm#2

FRBR

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm

GELOS

Global Environmental Locator System

http://www.gelos.org/

GILS

Global Information Locator Service

http://www.gils.net/

Handle System

A general-purpose global name service enabling secure name resolution over the Internet

http://www.handle.net

ICOM

International Council of Museums

http://www.icom.org/

IDF

International DOI Foundation

http://www.doi.org/

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

http://www.iec.ch/

IEEE LOM

Learning Object Metadata

http://www.ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/

IFLA

http://www.ifla.org/

IMS

Instructional Management System

http://www.imsproject.org/

INFO2000

Information Society Programme of the European Commission

http://europa.eu.int/

ISBD

International Standard Bibliographic Description

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd.htm

ISO

International Standards Organisation

http://www.iso.ch/

IST

Information Society Technologies Programme

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/

LC

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/

Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office

http://www.loc.gov/marc/ndmso.html

MARC21

Machine Readable Cataloguing

http://www.loc.gov/marc/

MPEG-7

Moving Picture Expert Group: Digital Audio-visual Framework

http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/

http://www.mpeg-7.com/

NEDLIB

Networked European Deposit Library

http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/

OAIS

Open Archival Information System

http://www.ccsds.org/documents/pdf/CCSDS-650.0-R-1.pdf

OCLC

Online Computer Library Center

http://www.oclc.org/

OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata

http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/wgmetadata.htm

OeBF

Open eBook Forum

http://www.openebook.org/

OIL

Ontology Inference Layer

http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/

ONIX

Online information eXchange

http://www.editeur.org/onix.html

P3P

Platform for Privacy Preferences

http://www.w3.org/P3P/

PDF

Adobe Portable Document Format

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html

PRISM

Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata

http://www.prismstandard.org/

RDF

Resource Description Framework

http://www.w3.org/RDF/

RLG

Research Libraries Group

http://www.rlg.org/

RSS

RDF Site Summary

http://purl.org/rss/

SAA

Society of American Archivists

http://www.archivists.org/

SCHEMAS

Forum for Metadata Schema Designers

http://www.schemas-forum.org/

SGML

Standardized General Mark-up Language

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/

SHOE

Simple HTML Ontology Extension

http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

http://www.smpte.org/

SPECTRUM

The UK Museum Documentation Standard

http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm

TEI

Text Encoding Initiative

http://www.tei-c.org/

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.w3.org/

WAI

Web Accessibility Initiative

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

XML

Extensible Mark-up Language

http://www.w3.org/XML/

XMLnews

http://www.xmlnews.org/