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| ADS | Archaeology Data Service: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ |
| AHDS | Arts and Humanities Data Service: http://ahds.ac.uk/ |
| Aquarelle | EC-sponsored project building an Information Network on Cultural Heritage for curators, urban and regional planners, publishers and researchers: http://aqua.inria.fr/ |
| BIBLINK | Telematics for Libraries project aiming to establish a relationship between national bibliographic agencies and publishers of electronic material: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/ |
| CEN/ISSS | European Committee for Standardisation - Information Society Standardisation System: http://www.cenorm.be/isss/default.htm |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface, a convention for external gateway programs to interface with Web server software |
| CHIO | CIMI project Cultural Heritage Information Online: http://www.cimi.org/projects/chio.html |
| CIMI | Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information: http://www.cimi.org/ |
| DC | Acronym for Dublin Core |
| Desire | Telematics for Research project addressing the needs of research users in the context of a European information network based on the World Wide Web (WWW): http://www.surfnet.nl/surfnet/projects/desire/ |
| DG XIII | Directorate General XIII of the European Commission: http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg13/13home.htm. See also: http://www2.echo.lu/home.html |
| Dublin Core | Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources: http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/ |
| EAD | Encoded Archival Description: http://www.loc.gov/rr/ead/eadhome.html |
| EC | European Commission: http://europa.eu.int/ |
| HTML | Hypertext Mark-up Language, the document format for WWW documents |
| IAFA | Indexing information specified by the working group of the IETF concerned with Internet Anonymous FTP Archives that can be used to describe the contents and services provided by such archives: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/iafa/iafa.txt |
| INDOREG | The Danish INternet DOCument REGistration (INDOREG) project: http://www.purl.dk/rapport/html.uk/ |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation: http://www.iso.ch/ |
| MARC | Standard format for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form, ISO standard 2709 |
| MMI | CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information: http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Workshop/MMI/welcome.html |
| NISO | U.S. National Information Standards Organization: http://www.niso.org/ |
| Nordic Metadata | Scandinavian co-operation project creating basic elements of a metadata production and utilisation system: http://renki.helsinki.fi/meta/ |
| NORDINFO | The Nordic Council for Scientific Information |
| NOVA | Nordic SBIG for agricultural sciences and forestry |
| NWI | Nordic Web Index: http://nwi.bok.hi.is/; http://nwi.dtv.dk/; http://nwi.bibsys.no/; http://nwi.funet.fi/; http://nwi.ub2.lu.se/ |
| PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection, an infrastructure for associating labels (metadata) with Internet content: http://www.w3.org/PICS/ |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework, a specification currently under development, designed to provide an infrastructure to support metadata across many web-based activities: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ |
| RTD | Research & Technological Development |
| SBIG | Subject Based Information Gateways |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO standard 8879 |
| TAP | The Telematics Applications Programme, one of the European Commission's research programmes, aimed at stimulating RTD on applications of information and/or communications technologies in areas of general interest: http://www2.echo.lu/telematics/telehome2.html |
| TEI | Text Encoding Initiative, an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/index.html |
| Telematics for Libraries | The Libraries sector of the Telematics Application Programme: http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html |
| UKOLN | The UK Office for Library and Information Networking: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ |
| Z39.50 | NISO standard specifying an Open Systems Interconnection application protocol for Information Retrieval, identical with ISO standard 23950: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/document.html |
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