Work Package 2 of Telematics for Libraries project PRIDE (LB 5624)
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PRIDE Requirements and Success Factors
Work Package 2 of Telematics for Libraries project PRIDE (LB 5624) |
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| AES
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Advanced
Encryption Standard - a replacement for DES.
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| Agora
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A
hybrid library project funded by eLib.
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| ANSI
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American
National Standards Institute.
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| ASF
|
Advanced
Search Facility.
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| BIBLINK
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A
project funded under the European Union Telematics for Libraries programme.
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| Blowfish
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A
64-bit block cipher.
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| Bureau
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A
third party serving metadata descriptions, e.g. a PICS label bureau.
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| CDF
|
Channel
Definition Format. An XML application, primarily for describing 'push'
channels. May also be used to describe arbitrary groupings of resources.
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| Checksum
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A
computed value which depends on the contents of a 'block of data'.
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| Copyright
|
Protection
of works defined by national and international legislation granted to creators
and their appointed agents.
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| CORBA
|
Common
Object Request Broker Architecture.
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| DASL
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DAV
Searching and Locating. See also: WebDAV.
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| DC
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See:
Dublin Core.
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| DC-dot
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A
program for creating Dublin Core metadata that can be pasted into the headers
of Web pages.
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| DES
|
Data
Encryption Standard.
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| DESIRE
|
Development
of a European Service for Information and Research. A project funded by the
European Union Telematics for Research programme.
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| DIT
|
Directory
Information Tree.
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| DN
|
Distinguished
Name. An X.500 or LDAP object name.
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| DNS
|
Domain
Name System.
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| DOI
|
Digital
Object Identifier.
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| DSA
|
Digital
Signature Algorithm.
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| DSA
|
Directory
Service Agent.
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| DSig
|
Digital
Signatures Initiative. Work co-ordinated by W3C to develop a trust mechanism
for the Web. Will be based on RDF.
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| DSSSL
|
Document
Style Semantics and Specification Language.
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| DSTC
|
Distributed
Systems Technology Centre.
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| DTD
|
Document
Type Definition. An application program defining document types in a SGML
context.
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| DUA
|
Directory
User Agent.
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| Dublin
Core
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A
metadata format defined on the basis of international consensus which has
defined a minimal information resource description, generally for use in a WWW
environment.
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| EAD
|
Encoding
Archival Description. A SGML-based metadata format developed for the
description of archives.
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| EDI
|
Electronic
Data Interchange. The exchange of structured data messages to enable automated
transactions between application systems.
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| GILS
|
Government
Information Locator Service. Metadata format created by the US Federal
Government in order to provide a means of locating information generated by
government agencies.
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| Handle
System
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A
distributed system developed by CNRI that resolves identifiers into the
information necessary to locate and access resources.
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| Harvest
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A
system providing a software architecture for gathering, indexing and accessing
Internet information. Uses SOIF.
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| Hash
Function
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See:
Checksum.
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| HTML
|
Hypertext
Mark-up Language. The standard language used for creating Web documents.
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| HTTP
|
HyperText
Transfer Protocol. The client-server protocol used for the exchange of HTML.
See also: TCP/IP.
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| IAFA
templates
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Internet
Anonymous FTP Archive templates. Metadata format designed for Anonymous FTP
archives, now adapted for use in ROADS project.
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| IDEA
|
International
Data Encryption Algorithm.
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| IEEE
|
Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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| IETF
|
Internet
Engineering Task Force.
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| IFLA
|
International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
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| ILL
|
Inter-Library
Loan protocol defined in ISO 10160 and 10161.
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| IMS
|
Instructional
Management System.
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| INDECS
|
Interoperability
of Data in E-Commerce Systems. A European funded project.
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| ISAAC
|
The
Isaac Network: Information Seeker's Avenue to Authoritative Content.
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| ISBN
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International
Standard Book Number.
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| ISSN
|
International
Standard Serial Number.
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| LDAP
|
Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol. Internet standard for directory services.
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| ldapd
|
LDAP
daemon (server).
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| Licence
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A
framework for creators and their appointed representatives to define the terms
and conditions under which a creation may be used, copied, distributed and
exploited.
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| LIDDAS
|
Local
Inter-lending and Document Delivery System
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| MAD
|
Microsoft
Active Directory
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| MARC
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MAchine
Readable Cataloguing. A family of formats based on ISO 2709 for the exchange of
bibliographic and other related information in machine readable form. For
example, USMARC, UKMARC and UNIMARC.
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| MCF
|
Meta
Content Framework
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| MD2,4,5
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A
one-way hash function typically used within cryptography.
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| Metadata
|
Data
which provides information about a resource.
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| MIME
|
Multimedia
mail enhancements to the Internet mail standard.
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| MPEG-7
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Multimedia
Content Description Interface.
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| NISO
|
National
Information Standards Organization.
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| NIST
|
U.S.
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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| OCLC
|
On-line
Computer Library Center.
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| Open
Group
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A
standards body.
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| PEM
|
Privacy
Enhancements for Electronic Mail.
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| PGP
|
Pretty
Good Privacy.
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| PICS
|
Platform
for Internet Content Selection. Internet content filtering infrastructure.
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| PII
|
Publisher
Item Identifier.
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| PKCS
|
Public-Key
Cryptography Standards.
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| PURL
|
Persistent
Uniform Resource Locator.
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| Push
technology
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New
Web technologies based on pushing information to end user.
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| RC2,4,5
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Variable
key-size ciphers.
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| RDN
|
Relative
Distinguished Name. An X.500 or LDAP object name.
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| Reggie
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A
Java-based metadata editor developed by DSTC.
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| ROADS
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Resource
Organisation And Discovery in Subject based services. eLib funded project
developing software for use by Internet subject services. ROADS templates are a
metadata format and are a development of IAFA templates.
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| RDF
|
Resource
Description Framework. Provides a framework for metadata in different
application areas, e.g. resource discovery, content ratings and intellectual
property.
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| RSA
|
Public-key
cryptosystem.
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| SBIG
|
Subject-Based
Information Gateway. See: Subject Service.
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| SET
|
Secure
Electronic Transaction.
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| SGML
(ISO 8879)
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Standard
Generalised Mark-up Language. An international standard for the description of
marked-up electronic text.
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| SHA
|
Secure
Hash Algorithm.
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| SHHTP
|
HTTP
secured using SSL.
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| SICI
|
Serial
Item and Contribution Identifier.
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| sldapd
|
Standalone
LDAP Daemon - an LDAP daemon not connected to the X.500 DIT.
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| S/MIME
|
Secure
MIME.
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| SOIF
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Summary
Object Interchange Format. A metadata format developed for use with the Harvest
architecture.
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| SSI
|
Server
Side Include. Mechanism for dynamically generating parts of Web pages.
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| SSL
|
Secure
Socket Layer. A method for end-to-end network encryption.
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| Subject
Service
|
Internet
subject services or gateways. Typically give access to selected Internet
resources based on subject coverage and quality criteria. For example: Social
Science Information Gateway (SOSIG).
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| Unicode
|
A
standard for international character encoding.
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| TCP/IP
|
Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The Internet transport-level protocols,
often used to refer to the entire collection of Internet protocols.
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| TF-CHIC
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TERENA
Task Force - Co-operative Hierarchical Indexing Co-ordination.
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| URC
|
Uniform
Resource Characteristics.
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| URI
|
Uniform
Resource Identifier. The super-set of URNs, URLs and URCs.
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| URL
|
Uniform
Resource Locator. The standard way to give the address of a source of
information on the WWW. For example:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications.html
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| URN
|
Uniform
Resource Name. Persistent identification for Web resources.
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| Warwick
Framework
|
An
architecture for the exchange of distinct metadata packages involving the
aggregation of metadata packages into containers.
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| Web
robot
|
A
software robot that trawls the WWW, generating all-encompassing Web indexes.
Also known as Web crawlers or Web spiders.
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| WebDAV
|
Web
Distributed Authoring and Versioning. An IETF Working Group.
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| Whois++
|
An
Internet directory services protocol.
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| World
Wide Web Consortium
|
Organisation
currently responsible for the development of Web protocols.
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| WWW
|
World
Wide Web.
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| W3C
|
See:
World Wide Web Consortium
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| X.500
|
ISO
and CCITT directory service protocol
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| XML
|
Extensible
Markup Language. A lightweight version of SGML designed for use on the Internet.
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| Z39.50
|
A
NISO standard for an application layer protocol for information retrieval that
is specifically designed to aid retrieval from distributed servers.
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