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AAI

Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure

See: Federated Identity
APA

Alliance for Permanent Access

See: http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu
API Application Programming Interface

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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: http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=eric
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/
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: http://lrt.clarin.eu/language-resources-and-technology
METS Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
MODS Metadata Object Description Schema

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