A CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY UKOLN IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE BRITISH LIBRARY, CNI, CAUSE AND JISC
9th and 10th February 1996 at the Ramada Hotel, Heathrow, UK
ANNEX 3: GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS AND TERMS
- AAU
- Association of American Universities
- ADAM
- Art Design Architecture and Media
- ALIWEB
- A resource discovery system for the WWW
- ARIEL
- A document delivery system from RLG
- ARL
- Association of Research Libraries
- AVS
- Audio-Visual Services
- BIDS
- Bath Information and Data Services
- BL
- The British Library
- BLEND
- Birmingham and Loughborough Electronic Networking Development
- CAIN
- Conflict Archive on the Internet
- CAUSE
- The association for managing and using information resources in higher education
- CCTA
- UK Government Centre for Information Systems
- CD-ROM
- Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
- CGI
- Common Gateway Interface
- CLIP
- The Croydon Library Internet Project
- CML
- Chemical Markup Language
- CNI
- Coalition for Networked Information
- CURL
- Consortium of University Research Libraries
- CVCP
- Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Prinicipals
- CWIS
- Campus-Wide Information System
- DENI
- Department of Education for Northern Ireland
- DTD
- Document Type Definition
- EARL
- Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries
- EEVL
- Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
- eLib
- Electronic Libraries Programme
- ERIMS
- Electronic Readings in Management Studies
- FIGIT
- Follett Implementation Group for IT
- FoLLI
- The European Association for Logic, Language and Information
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- HE
- Higher Education
- HEFCE
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- IAFA
- Internet Anonymous FTP Archive
- IGPL
- Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logic
- IHR
- Institute of Historical Research
- IPR
- Intellectual Property Rights
- ISDN2
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISI
- Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
- ISSC
- Information Systems Sub-Committee of JISC
- IT
- Information Technology
- JANET
- Joint Academic Network
- JISC
- Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- LA
- Library Association
- LAMDA
- London/Manchester Document Delivery
- LAN
- Local Area Network
- MARC
- Machine Readable Catalogue
- MIDAS
- Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Multimedia Extensions
- MIS
- Management Information Systems (or Services
- NACSIS
- National Center for Science Information Systems (Japan
- NIDR
- Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
- NII
- National Information Infrastructure
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- OMNI
- Organising Medical Networked Information
- OPAC
- Online Public Access Catalogue
- PC
- Personal Computer (microcomputer
- PURL
- Persistent URL
- RLG
- Research Libraries Group
- ROADS
- Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based services
- RUDI
- Resource for Urban Design Information
- S/NVQ
- Scottish/National Vocational Qualification
- SCRAN
- Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
- SGML
- Standard Generalised Markup Language
- SMDS
- Switched Multimegabit Data Service
- SOSIG
- Social Science Information Gateway
- SSL
- Secure Socket Layer
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- TLTP
- Teaching and Learning Technology Programm
- UDC
- Universal Decimal Classification
- UKOLN
- UK Office of Library and Information Networking
- UR*
- URI, URL, URN etc
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- URN
- Uniform Resource Name
- VAT
- Value Added Tax
- VRML
- Virtual Reality Markup Language
- WWW
- World Wide Web
- Z39.50
- ANSI Search and Retrieve protocol
British Library R&D Report 6250
© The British Library Board 1996
© Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding
Bodies 1996
The opinions expressed in this report are those of the contributors and
not necessarily those of the sponsoring organisations.
RDD/C/187
The primary publication medium for this report is via the Internet at URL
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/rdr6250/
It may also be purchased as photocopies or microfiche from
the British Thesis Service, British Library Document Supply Centre,
Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ.
This report of the conference was prepared by The Marc Fresko Consultancy
Telephone +44 181 645 0080 E-mail marc@easynet.co.uk
Converted to HTML by Isobel Stark of UKOLN, July 1996
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