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