Acronym
AGLS
Agora
AHDS
AMICO
ANSI
Aquarelle
BIBLINK
Biome
Cedars
CIMI
COLLATE
COVAX
CSDGM
CURL
DC
DCMES
DCMI
DDC
DECOMATE
DESIRE
DNER
DTD
DutchESS
EAD
EELS
EEVL
Definition
Australian Government Locator Service:
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.ht
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An UK hybrid-library project funded by JISC as part of eLib:
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/agora/
Arts and Humanities Data Service: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/
Art Museum Image Consortium: http://www.amico.org/
American National Standards Institute: http://web.ansi.org/
The Information Network on Cultural Heritage - a Telematics
Applications Programme project:
http://aquarelle.inria.fr/aquarelle/welcome.html
Linking Publishers and National Bibliographic Services - a
Telematics for Libraries project: http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/
The RDN hub for the health and life sciences:
http://www.biome.ac.uk/
CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives - a project funded by JISC as
part of eLib: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
A consortium of cultural heritage institutions and organisations:
http://www.cimi.org/
Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized
Historical Archive Material -an IST Programme project:
http://www.collate.de/
Contemporary Culture Visual Archives in XML - an IST
Programme project: http://www.covax.org/
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata:
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html
Consortium of University Research Libraries:
http://www.curl.ac.uk/
Dublin Core: http://www.dublincore.org/
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Dewey Decimal Classification: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
Delivery of Copyright Materials to End-users project and
DECOMATE II (Developing the European digital library for
economics) were both Telematics for Libraries projects:
http://www.bib.uab.es/decomate2
Development of a European Service for Information on Research
and Education - a Telematics Applications Programme project:
http://www.desire.org/
Distributed National Electronic Resource - an initiative of JISC:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/
Document Type Definition
Dutch Electronic Subject Service: http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/
Encoded Archival Description: http://www.loc.gov/ead/
Engineering Electronic Library Sweden: http://eels.lub.lu.se/
Originally the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, now the RDN
hub for engineering, computing and mathematics:
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
eLib
EOR
ETB
EULER
FDGC
FP4
FP5
FVL
GILS
GMD
HILT
Humbul
IEEE
IMesh
IMS
ISAD(G)
ISBD
IST
JISC
KB
LOM
MARC
MARC21
METAe
MODELS
MPEG
MPEG-7
UK Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by JISC:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
Extensible Open RDF toolkit: http://eor.dublincore.org/
European Treasury Browser - an IST Programme project:
http//www.eun.org/etb/
European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical
Sciences - a Telematics for Libraries project:
http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/
Federal Geographic Data Committee: http://www.fgdc.gov/
Fourth Framework Programme for Research and Technological
Development
Fifth Framework Programme: http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/home.html
Finnish Virtual Library: http://www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/
Global Information Locator Service: http://www.gils.net/
GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH - GMD
German National Research Center for Information Technology:
http://www.gmd.de/
High-Level Thesaurus project - funded by JISC and the Research
Support Libraries Programme (RSLP): http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
The RDN hub for the arts and humanities:
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.:
http://www.ieee.org/
An international 'community' of subject gateway service providers:
http://www.imesh.org/
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.:
http://www.imsproject.org/aboutims.html
General International Standard Archival Description - developed by
the International Council on Archives: http://www.ica.org/
International Standard Bibliographic Description
Information Society Technologies Programme:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html
Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK higher and further
education funding councils: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands:
http://www.kb.nl/
Learning Object Metadata - developed by the IEEE Learning
Technology Standards Committee (LTSC): http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/
MAchine Readable Cataloguing
MARC format maintained by the Library of Congress Network
Development and MARC Standards Office:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/
Metadata Engine project - an IST project: http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/
MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services UKOLN initiative supported by eLib and the British Library:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/
Moving Picture Experts Group
Multimedia Content Description Interface:
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/MPEG7/
NEDLIB
NISO
NOVAgate
OAI
OAIS
OCLC
OMNI
PSIgate
PwC
RDF
RDN
Renardus
RKMS
RLG
ROADS
SCHEMAS
SMEF
SOSIG
SSG-FI
SUB Göttingen
UBCIM
UKOLN
UNIMARC
Z39.50
Networked European Deposit Library - a Telematics for Libraries
project: http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/
National Information Standards Organization: http://www.niso.org/
A subject gateway for forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and
environmental sciences produced and maintained by the libraries of
the NOVA University: http://novagate.nova-university.org/
Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org/
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System:
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ref_model.html
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: http://www.oclc.org/
Organising Medical Networked Information: now part of the RDN
hub Biome: http://www.omni.ac.uk/
RDN hub for the physical sciences: http://www.psigate.ac.uk/
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Resource Description Framework: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Resource Discovery Network: http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
Academic Subject Gateway Service Europe - an IST Programme
project: http://www.renardus.org/
Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema:
http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/rcrg/research/spirt/
Research Libraries Group: http://www.rlg.org/
Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services - an
eLib project: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/
Forum for Metadata schema implementers - an IST Programme
project: http://www.schemas-forum.org/
Standard Media Exchange Framework - developed by British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to support media asset
management: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/smef/
Social Science Information Gateway - the RDN hub for the social
sciences: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
Special Subject Guides-Fachinformation: http://www.sub.unigoettingen.de/ssgfi/
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen - the
State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of
Goettingen: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/
IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC
Core Programme: http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/
UK Office for Library and Information Networking:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Universal MARC Format - from UBCIM:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/sec-uni.htm
ANSI/NISO search and retrieve protocol