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Glossary

Term Definition
AAI
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
APA
Alliance for Permanent Access
API
Application Programming Interface
ARK
Archival Resource Key
CLARA
Common Language Resources and their Applications
CMDI
Component Metadata Infrastructure
DANS
Data Archiving and Networked Services
DASISH
Digital Services Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities
DC
Dublin Core
DCR
Data Catagory Registry
DEISA
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
DIDL
Digital Item Declaration Language
DIP

Dissemination Information Package

DOBES
Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen
DOI
Digital Object Identifier
DRIVER
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
EAD
Encoded Archival Description
EAF
Eudico Annotation Format. File format used by ELAN.
EBXML
e-business XML
EGEE
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EPIC
European Persistent Identifier Consortium
EPPN
EduPersonPrincipleName
ERA
European Research Area
ERIC
European Research Infrastructure Consortium
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures
FEDORA
Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
FIDAS
Fieldwork Data Sustainability
iCORDI
International Collaboration on Research Data Infrastructure
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 AAI.
IMDI
ISLE Meta Data Initiative
INTERA
Integrated European language data Repository Area
ISO/TC 37
Terminology and other language and content resources
JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee
LAMUS
Language Archive Management and Upload System
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LMF
Lexical Markup Framework
LOM
Learning Object Metadata
LREP

Language Repository Exchange Protocol

LRT
Language Resources and Technology
METS
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
MODS
Metadata Object Description Schema
NBN
National Bibliography Number
NREN
National Research and Education Network
OAI-ORE
Object Reuse and Exchange
 
OAI-PMH
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OAIS
Open Archival Information System
OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
ODD
One Document Does it all
OLAC
Open Language Archives Community
PARADE
Partnership for Accessing Data in Europe