AACR2

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd edition)

AAT

Art & Architecture Thesaurus
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

ADAM

Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
http://adam.ac.uk/

AGLS

Australian Government Locator Service
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html

AHDS

Arts and Humanities Data Service
http://ahds.ac.uk/

ANSI

American National Standards Institute
http://www.ansi.org/

ANR

Access to Network Resources
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/#anr

AOL

America Online, Inc.
http://www.aol.com/

BAC

Reference Model for Business Acceptable Communications
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~nhprc/meta96.html

CDWA

Categories for the Description of Works of Art
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/

CIMI

Computer Interchange of Museum Information
http://www.cimi.org

CORC

Cooperative Online Resource Catalog
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/index.htm

CREN

Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
http://www.cren.net/

DC

Dublin Core
http://purl.org/DC/

DCMES

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
http://purl.org/DC/documents/rec-dces-19990702.htm

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://purl.org/DC/about/DCMIStructure-19990531.htm

DCQ

Dublin Core Qualified
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-general/2000-04/0010.html

DLI

Digital Libraries Initiative
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/

EAD

Encoded Archival Description
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/
See glossary.

EEVL

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://eevl.icbl.hw.ac.uk/

eLib

Electronic Libraries Programme
http://ukoln.ac.uk/elib/

FDA

Foundation for Documents of Architecture: A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/fda

HTML

HyperText Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
See glossary.

HTTP

HyperText Transfer protocol
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
See glossary.

ISAAR(CPF)

International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
http://data1.archives.ca/ica/cgi-bin/ica?04_e

ISAD(G)

General International Standard Archival Description
http://data1.archives.ca/ica/cgi-bin/ica?04_e

ISO

International Standards Organization
http://www.iso.ch

ISO 9000

International Standards Organization 9000 quality management standards
http://www.iso.ch/9000e/magical.htm

MARC

Machine-Readable Cataloging format
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/
See glossary.

mda

The organization formerly known as the Museum Documentation Association
http://www.mda.org.uk/

MIME

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/np.html#MIME

NISO

National Information Standards Organization.
http://www.niso.org/

Object ID

Object ID
http://www.object-id.com

OCLC

Online Computer Library Center
http://www.oclc.org/

PICS

Platform for Internet Content Selection
http://www.w3.org/PICS/

RDF

Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
See glossary.

RKMS

Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema
http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/rcrg/research/spirt/

RLG

Research Libraries Group, Inc.
http://www.rlg.org/

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language
See glossary.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
See glossary.

TGN

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

UKOLN

United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking
http://ukoln.ac.uk/

ULAN

Union List of Artist Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/

URI

Universal Resource Identifier
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
See glossary.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator
See glossary.

URN

Uniform Resource Name
See glossary.

VADS

Visual Arts Data Service
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/

VERS

Victorian Electronic Records Strategy metadata set
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/standard/99-7-2toc.htm

WHOIS++

http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/internet/rfc/rfc1835.txt
See glossary.

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/

XML

Extensible Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/XML/
See glossary.

Z39.50

"Z Thirty-Nine Dot Fifty"
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
See glossary.