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Glossary

Term Sort descending Definition
AAI
Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
APA
Alliance for Permanent Access
API
Application Programming Interface
ARK
Archival Resource Key
BoD

Board of Directors

CLARA
Common Language Resources and their Applications
CMDI
Component Metadata Infrastructure
CTS
CoreTrustSeal, successor of the Data Seal of Approval
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
DSA
Data Seal of Approval
EAD
Encoded Archival Description
EAF
Eudico Annotation Format. File format used by ELAN.
EBXML
e-business XML
EGEE
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EOSC
European Open Science Cloud
EPIC
European Persistent Identifier Consortium
EPPN
EduPersonPrincipleName
ERA
European Research Area
ERIC
European Research Infrastructure Consortium
ESFRI
European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures
EUDAT
European Data Infrastructure
FCS
Federated Content Search
FEDORA
Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
FIDAS
Fieldwork Data Sustainability
GA

General Assembly

GLAM
Galleries, Libaries, Archives, Museums
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
KSI

Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, part of the CLARIN infrastructure that takes care of sharing of knowledge and expertise, education, training and dissemination

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
META-SHARE

Network of repositories resulting from the META-NET Network of Excellence (http://www.meta-share.eu/)

METS
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard