Glossary

Term Definition
AAI

Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
See: Federated Identity

APA

Alliance for Permanent Access
See: http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/

API

Application Programming Interface

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API

ARK

Archival Resource Key

See: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/

CLARA

Common Language Resources and their Applications

See: http://clara.uib.no

CMDI

Component Metadata Infrastructure

See: http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi

DANS

Data Archiving and Networked Services

See: http://www.dans.knaw.nl

DASISH

Digital Services Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities

See: http://www.dasish.eu

DC

Dublin Core

See: http://dublincore.org/

DCR

Data Catagory Registry

See: http://www.isocat.org/

DEISA

Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

See: http://www.deisa.eu/

DIDL

Digital Item Declaration Language

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Item_Declaration_Language

DIP

Dissemination Information Package

DOBES

Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen

See: http://www.mpi.nl/dobes

DOI

Digital Object Identifier

See: http://www.doi.org/

DRIVER

Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

See: http://www.driver-repository.eu/

EAD

Encoded Archival Description

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoded_Archival_Description

EAF

Eudico Annotation Format. File format used by ELAN.

See: http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/EAF_Annotation_Format.pdf

EBXML

e-business XML

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebxml

EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Grids_for_E-sciencE

EPIC

European Persistent Identifier Consortium

See: http://www.pidconsortium.eu/

EPPN

EduPersonPrincipleName

See: http://rnd.feide.no/attribute/edupersonprincipalname

ERA

European Research Area

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Research_Area

ERIC

European Research Infrastructure Consortium
See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/european-res…

ESFRI

European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures See: https://www.esfri.eu

FEDORA

Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28software%29

FIDAS

Fieldwork Data Sustainability

See: http://www.apsr.edu.au/fidas/

iCORDI

International Collaboration on Research Data Infrastructure

See: http://www.icordi.eu

IdP

Identity Provider, a (Shibboleth) server that authenticates users and conveys their attributes to requesting resources. In other terms it provides the digital identities of its users to other servers in the .

See: Federated Identity

IMDI

ISLE Meta Data Initiative

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDI

INTERA

Integrated European language data Repository Area

See: http://www.mpi.nl/intera/

ISO/TC 37

Terminology and other language and content resources

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/TC37

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee

See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

LAMUS

Language Archive Management and Upload System

See: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/lamus

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ldap

LMF

Lexical Markup Framework

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_Markup_Framework

LOM

Learning Object Metadata

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object_metada

LREP

Language Repository Exchange Protocol

LRT

Language Resources and Technology
See: https://www.clarin.eu/content/language-resource-inventory

METS

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METS

MODS

Metadata Object Description Schema

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODS

NBN

National Bibliography Number

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bibliography_Number

NREN

National Research and Education Network

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_research_and_education_network

OAI-ORE

Object Reuse and Exchange

See: http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

OAI-PMH

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Meta…

OAIS

Open Archival Information System

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAIS

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

See: http://www.oasis-open.org/

ODD

One Document Does it all

See: http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/ODD

OLAC

Open Language Archives Community

See: http://www.language-archives.org

PARADE

Partnership for Accessing Data in Europe

See: http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/parade