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

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