Glossary

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A
for AAI within the MPG see article MPG-AAI ALEPH extension MPI for Gravitational Physics see WG used by more than 30 MPIs, see article Aleph
 * AB:Architectural Bord
 * AAI:Authentication, Authorization and Identification
 * AAT:Art and Architecture Thesaurus
 * ACL:Access Control List
 * ACORD:Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
 * ADAM:ALEPH Digital Asset Modul
 * ADS:NASA Astrophysics Data System
 * AEI:Albert Einstein Institute
 * AG:Arbeitsgruppe
 * AJP:Apache JServ Protocol
 * Aleph:Integrated Library System by ExLibris
 * ALEPH:Integrated Library System by ExLibris
 * ANSI:American National Standards Institute
 * APA:American Psychological Association
 * Apache:Open Source and Most Widely Used Web Server
 * API:Application Programming Interface
 * APS:American Physical Society
 * AP:Application Profile
 * ARC:ALEPH Reporting Center
 * ASCII:American Standard Code for Information Interchange
 * AS2:Applicability Statement 2
 * AWOB:Astronomers’ Workbench

B
Homepage German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Homepage Scientific Section in the MPG Bavarian Library Consortia
 * BAR:Beratender Ausschuss für EDV-Anlagen in der MPG
 * BA:(New) Bibliotheca Alexandrina
 * BBAW:Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
 * BIBRAME:Bibliographic Framework Initiative
 * BGC:Max Planck Institut for Biogeochemistry
 * BibTeX:Reference Management Software for Lists of References
 * BibTex:Reference Management Software for Lists of References
 * BibTool:Curses-Based Editor for BibTeX Bibliography Files
 * BIOS:Basic Input-Output System
 * BMBF:Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
 * BMC:BioMedical Central
 * BLO:Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online
 * BM:Biology and Medicine
 * BOM:Byte Order Mark
 * BPC:Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie
 * BPM:Business Process Management
 * BSB:Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
 * BSZ:Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg
 * BT:Bibliothekstagung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
 * BVB:Bibliotheksverbund Bayern

C
see article CARPET European Committee for Standardization ISO Standard, Ontology Embedding reference metadata into the HTML code of a web page. Apache Continuum Scientific Section of the MPG
 * CARPET:Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology
 * CAP:Common Alerting Protocol
 * CATCH:Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage
 * CBS:Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
 * CC:Creative Common
 * CDDL:Common Development and Distribution License
 * CDL:Common Data Link
 * CEN:Comitée européen de normalisation
 * CeRcH:Centre for e-Research of the King's College London
 * CERIF: Current Research Information Systems
 * CERL:Consortium of European Research Libraries
 * CERN:European Organisation for Nuclear Research
 * CAESAR:Center of Advanced European Studies And Research
 * CET:Central European Time
 * CEST:Central European Summer Time
 * CIDOC CRM:CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
 * CIDOC:Committee on Documentation of the International Council of Museums
 * CGI:Computer Generated Imagery
 * CHO:Culture Heritage Objects
 * CMS:Content Management System
 * CNRI:Corporation for National Research Initiatives
 * CNRS:Centre national de la recherche scientifique
 * COASP: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
 * COinS:Context Objects in Span
 * CoLab:Collaboration Laboratory
 * Colab:Collaboration Laboratory
 * CoNE:Control of Named Entities
 * CONE:Control of Named Entities
 * Continuum:Apache Continuum
 * CPFS:Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe
 * CPT:Chemical Physical Technical
 * CPU:Central Processing Unit
 * CQL:Common Query Language
 * CRAN:Comprehensive R Archive Network
 * CRISP-DM:Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
 * CRUD:Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete
 * CSE:Citation Style Editor
 * CSR:Certificate Signing Request
 * CSRF:Cross-Site-Request-Forgery
 * CSS:Cascading Style Sheets
 * CSV:Comma-Separated Values
 * CU:Control Unit
 * CVS:Concurrent Versions System

D
German Initiative for Network Information German National Library platform-independent object model for representing HTML or XML documents machine-readable formal representation of the constraints of an AP
 * DaaS:Data as a Service
 * DAAS:Data As A Service
 * DAI:Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
 * DANS:Data Archiving and Networked Services
 * DARIAH:Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
 * Dariah:Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
 * DBMS:Database Management System
 * DBIS:Datenbank-Infosystem
 * DCAM:Dublin Core Abstract Model
 * DCCAP:Dublin Core Collections Application Profile
 * DCMI:Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
 * DCP:McGill Digital Collections Program
 * DDB:Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
 * DDC:Display Data Channel
 * DC:Dublin Core
 * DER:Distinguished Encoding Rules
 * DFG:Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
 * DFN:Deutsches Forschungsnetz
 * Digilib:Web Based Server Technology for Viewing and Working with Images
 * DiLiA:Digital Library Assistant
 * DINI:Deutschen Initiative für Netzwerkinformation
 * DIPF:Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung Frankfurt am Main
 * DLC:Digitization Lifecycle
 * DNB:Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
 * DNS:Domain Name System
 * DOAR:Directory of Open Access Repositories
 * DOI:Digital Object Identifier
 * DOM:Document Object Model
 * DOARC:Distributed Open-Access Reference Citation (Services)
 * DRBD:Distributed Replicated Block Device
 * DRIVER:Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
 * DRM:Digital Rights Management
 * DSP:Description Set Profile
 * DS:Directory Service
 * DTAE:Deutsches Textarchiv-Erweiterungen
 * DTA:Deutsches Textarchiv
 * DTD:Document type definition
 * DUK:Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission

E
Institutional Repository of the Max Planck Society, see article eDoc see also here
 * EAD:Encoded Archival Description
 * EAR:Enterprise Archive File Formate
 * ear:Enterprise Archive File Formate
 * ebMS:Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
 * ebXML:Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
 * EB:Editorial Board
 * EBSCO:Acronym for Elton B Stephens COmpany; EBSCO offers library resources to customers
 * ECDL:European Conference on Digital Libraries
 * ECHO:European Cultural Heritage Online
 * EDaWAX:European Data Watch Extended
 * EDXL:Emergency Data Exchange Language
 * eDoc:Electronic Documentation
 * EDV:Elektronische Datenverarbeitung
 * EHRI:European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
 * EJB:Enterprise JavaBeans
 * eLab:Electronic Laboratory
 * EMBL:European Molecular Biology Laboratory
 * EMBO:European Molecular Biology Organization
 * EnTag:Enhanced Tagging
 * EoD:End of Data
 * EPUB:Electronic Publication
 * ERIC:Education Resources Information Center
 * ERM:Electronic Resource Management
 * eROSITA:extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array
 * ESA:European Space Agency, ESRIN (France)
 * eSciDoc:Enhanced Scientific Documentation
 * ESciDoc:Enhanced Scientific Documentation
 * eScience:Enhanced Science
 * ESFRI:European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
 * ETD-MS:Electronic Thesis and Disserations Metadata Set
 * Europeana:European Online Digital Library
 * EZB:Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek

F
see about Fedora here Initiative to harmonize FRBR and CIDOC reference models)
 * FAQ:Frequently Asked Questions
 * Fedora:Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
 * FHI:Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
 * FH:Fachhochschule
 * FITS:Flexible Image Transport System
 * FIZ:Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
 * FOAF:Friend of a Friend Project
 * FOA:Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
 * FOXML:Fedora Object XML
 * FP7:7th Framework Programme by the European Union
 * FRANAR:Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records
 * FRBRoo:Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records-object oriented
 * FRBR:Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
 * FSB:Front Side Bus
 * FTE:Full-Time Equivalent
 * FTP:File Transport Protocol
 * FU:Freie Universität Berlin
 * FUH:FernUniversität in Hagen
 * f2f:Face to Face

G
Organization Authority File by DNB Administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society see here
 * GASCO:German, Austrian and Swiss Consortia Organisation
 * GAVO:German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
 * GBV:Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
 * GCDH:Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
 * GC:Garbage Collection
 * GDL:Glasgow Digital Library
 * GDZ:Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
 * GEI:Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung
 * GESIS:Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Mannheim
 * GFZ:Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
 * GITHUB:Web-Based Hosting Service for Software Development with Git Revision Control System
 * Github:Web-Based Hosting Service for Software Development with Git Revision Control System
 * GitHub:Web-Based Hosting Service for Software Development with Git Revision Control System
 * Git:Distributed Revision Control and Source Code Management
 * GIT:Distributed Revision Control and Source Code Management
 * GIS:Geoinformationssystem
 * GLR:Generischer Link Resolver
 * GmbH:Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
 * GnuPG:GNU Privacy Guard
 * GND:Gemeinsame Normdatei
 * GNZ:Gemeinsames Netzwerkzentrum
 * GKD:Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei
 * GRID:Global Release Identifier
 * Grid:Global Release Identifier
 * GRUR:Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht
 * GPFS:General Parallel File System
 * GPL:General Public License
 * GPS:Global Positioning System
 * GSH:Geistes-, Sozial- und Humanwissenschaftliche Sektion of the MPG
 * GUI:Graphical User Interface
 * GV:Generalverwaltung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
 * GWDG:Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen

H

 * HAB:Herzog August Bibliothek
 * HAL:Hardware Abstraction Layer
 * HBZ:Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
 * HDD:Hard Disk Drive
 * HeBIS:Hessische Bibliotheksinformationssystem
 * HEBIS:Hessische Bibliotheksinformationssystem
 * HH:Hamburg
 * HiWi:Hilfswissenschaftler_in
 * Horizon2020:European Framework Programm for Research and Technological Development
 * HP:Homepage
 * HTML:Hypertext Markup Language
 * HTTP:HyperText Transfer Protocol
 * HTTPD:Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon
 * HTTPS:HyperText Transfer Protocol Secured
 * HU:Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

I
meanwhile: Thomson Scientific Information Retrieval Services Group
 * IANA:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
 * IBM:International Business Machines Corporation
 * ICE:Internet Chat Exchange
 * IDE:Integrated Development Environment
 * IDML:InDesign Markup Language
 * IdP:Identity Provider
 * IDP:Intrusion Detection & Prevention
 * ID:Identifier
 * IETF:Internet Engineering Task Force
 * IEC:International Electrotechnical Commission
 * IEG:Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
 * IE:Internet Explorer
 * IFLA:International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
 * IGeLU:International Group of ExLibris Users
 * IKB:Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der HU Berlin
 * ILL:Interlibrary Loan
 * ILS:Integrated Library System
 * IMPRS:International Max Planck Research School
 * IMAP:Internet Message Access Protocol
 * InetBib:Mailinglist Internet Libraries in Germany
 * INGe:Infrastructure Next Generation
 * IPTC:International Press Telecommunications Council
 * IPP:Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
 * IP:Internet Protocol
 * IRCHSS:Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
 * IRIS:Integrated Relational Information System
 * ISBD:International Standard Bibliographic Description
 * ISBN:International Standard Book Number
 * ISDN:Integrated Services Digital Network
 * ISSN:International Standard Serial Number
 * ISI:Institute for Scientific Information
 * ISO:International Organization for Standardization
 * iText:Open Source Library for Creating pdf Files in Java
 * ITU: International Telecommunication Union
 * IT:Informationstechnik
 * IVS:Informationsvermittlungsstelle

J
delivers workflow, business process management
 * JAX-WS:Java API for XML Web Services
 * JDK:Java Development Kit
 * JBoss:Open source Java EE-based application server
 * Jboss:Open source Java EE-based application server
 * JBPM:JBoss framework
 * JDBC:Java Database Connectivity
 * Jenkins:Open Source Continuous Integration Tool in Java
 * JHOVE:JSTOR Harvard Object Validation Environment
 * JiBX:Framework for Binding XML Data to Java Objects
 * Jira:Error Management and Project Management Software
 * JIRA:Error Management and Project Management Software
 * JISC:Joint Information Systems Committee UK
 * Jisc:Joint Information Systems Committee UK
 * JMX:Java Management Extensions
 * JNDI:Java Naming and Directory Interface
 * JOP:Java Optimized Processor
 * JPDL:JBPM Process Definition Language
 * JPEG:Image File Format
 * JPG:Image File Format
 * jQuery:Cross-Platform JavaScript Library
 * JRE:Java Runtime Environment
 * JSAMP:Java Simple Application Messaging Protocol
 * JSF:JavaServer Faces
 * JSON:JavaScript Object Notation
 * JSPF:Java Simple Plugin Framework
 * JSP:JavaServer Pages
 * Jstor:Journal STORage
 * J2EE:Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

K
in the Netherlands
 * KB:Koninklijke Bibliotheek
 * KHI:Kunsthistorisches Institut, Rom
 * KIM:Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten
 * KIT:Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
 * KOPAL:Kooperativer Aufbau eines Langzeitarchivs digitaler Informationen
 * KOS:Knowledge Organization Systems and Services
 * KWI:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
 * KW:Kalenderwoche

L
long term archiving
 * LAMP:Linux Apache MySQL PHP
 * LAN:Local-area network
 * LaTeX:Lamport TeX
 * LBS:Lokales Bibliotheksverwaltungssystem
 * LDAP:Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
 * LDH:Language Description Heritage
 * LDI:Harvard University's Library Digital Initiative
 * LEAF:Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall
 * LISA:"Lesen, Informieren, Schreiben und Austauschen" - Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung
 * LMU:Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
 * LRZ:Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
 * LSA:Linguist Society of America
 * LOD:Linked Open Data
 * LTA:Long-term Archiving
 * LVM:Logical Volume Manager
 * LZA:Langzeitarchivierung

M
Metadata standard
 * MABxml:Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
 * MAB:Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
 * MAC:Media Access Control Address
 * MARCxml:MAchine-Readable Cataloging Extensible Markup Language
 * MARC:MAchine-Readable Cataloging
 * MD:Metadata
 * MEA:Munich Center for the Economics of Aging
 * METS:Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
 * MIME:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
 * MIS:Management-Informationssystem
 * MIZ:Medien- und Informationszentrum
 * MIXED:Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data
 * MODS:Metadata Object Description Schema
 * MoU:Memorandum of Understanding
 * MPDL:Max Planck Digital Library
 * MPA:Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
 * MPCDF:Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
 * MPEG:Moving Picture Experts Group
 * MPE:Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
 * MPFI:Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
 * MPG:Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
 * MPG-AAI:MPG-wide Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
 * MPG.PuRe:MPG Publication Repository
 * MPI-CBG:Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik
 * MPI-EVA:Max Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
 * MPI-MMG:Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften
 * MPIA:Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
 * MPIBPC:Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie
 * MPIBF:Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
 * MPIBPH:MPI für Biophysik
 * MPIB:Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
 * MPIDYS:MPI Dynamik und Selbstorganisation
 * MPIEIS:Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung
 * MPIeR:Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
 * MPIER:Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
 * MPIfG:Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
 * MPIfR:Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
 * MPII:Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
 * MPIGE:Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum
 * MPIKG:Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
 * MPIK:Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
 * MPIMBM:Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Biomedizin
 * MPIMP:Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie
 * MPIMF:Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung
 * MPIO:Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie
 * MPIPL:Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik
 * MPIPKS:Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme
 * MPISOC:Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik
 * MPIWG:Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
 * MPI:Max-Planck-Institut
 * MPL:Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts
 * MPS:Max Planck Society
 * MRO:Millennium Run Observatory
 * MRTG:Multi Router Traffic Grapher
 * MWK:Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
 * MVC:Model View Controller
 * MySQL:MY Sequential Query Language
 * MySql:MY Sequential Query Language
 * Mysql:MY Sequential Query Language

N
in the USA
 * NCBI:National Center for Biotechnology Information
 * NFS:Network File System
 * NIC:Network Information Center
 * NIMS:National Institute for Materials Science Japan
 * NISO:National Information Standards Organization
 * NKOS:Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services
 * NKO:Networked Knowledge Organization
 * NSDL:National Science Digital Library
 * NVivo:Qualitative Data Analysis Computer Software Package
 * NYPL:New York Public Library

O

 * OAC:Owner Architect Client
 * OAI-DC:Open Archives Initiative Dublin Core
 * OAI-ORE:Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
 * OAI-PMH:Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
 * OAI:Open Archives Initiative
 * OA:Open Access
 * OCLC:Online Computer Library Center
 * OCR:Optical Character Recognition
 * OCS:Open Collaboration Services
 * ODBC:Open Database Connectivity
 * ODD:One Documents Does it all
 * ODT:OpenDocument
 * odt:OpenDocument
 * OHS:Oracle HTTP Server
 * OGC:OpenGIS
 * OJS:Open Journal System
 * OMIM:Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
 * OPAC:Online Public Access Catalogue
 * OpenAIRE:Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
 * OpenDOAR:Open Directory of Open Access Repositories
 * OpenURL: Open Uniform Resource Locator
 * OPINAS:Optical and Interpretative Astronomy
 * OPM:Open Provenance Model
 * OPUS:Online Publikationsverbund der Universität Stuttgart
 * OSDC:Open Source Developers' Conference
 * OSS:Open Source Software
 * OS:Operating System
 * OTRS:Open Ticket Request System
 * OU:Organizational Unit
 * OWL:Web Ontology Language

P

 * PARSE:Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe
 * PDF:Portable Document Format
 * Pdf:Portable Document Format
 * pdf:Portable Document Format
 * PDSH:Parallel Distributed Shell
 * PDS:Patron Directory Service
 * PEM:Privacy Enhanced Mail
 * PhD:philosophiae doctor
 * PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor
 * PEER:Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
 * PICA:Project of Integrated Catalogue Automation
 * PID:Persistent Identifer or Identification
 * PKIX:Public-key infrastructure X
 * PKI:Public-key infrastructure
 * PKP:Public Knowledge Project
 * PLOS:Public Library of Science
 * PMC:PubMed Central
 * PMID:PubMed Identifier
 * PND:Personen Normdatei
 * POM:Path Overhead Monitoring
 * PPOC:Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
 * PPV:Pay-per-View
 * PREMIS:Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
 * PubMan:Publication Management
 * PuRe:Publication Repository
 * PURL:Persistent Uniform Resource Locators
 * px:Pixel

Q

 * QA:Quality Assurance
 * QK:Qualitätskontrolle
 * QM:Quality Management
 * QR:Quick Response

R
cataloguing rules in preparation W3C specification; metadata data model software architecture paradigm by Roy Fielding. The authoritative source is the dissertation of Roy Fielding.
 * RAK-NBM:Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung von Nichtbuchmaterialien
 * RAM:Random-Access Memory
 * RC:Rights Checking
 * RDA:Resource Description and Access
 * RDBMS:Relational Database Management System
 * RDF:Resource Description Framework
 * RDS:Radio Data System
 * ReDI:Regionale Datenbank-Information
 * RelaxNG:Regular Language Description for XML New Generation
 * REST:Representational State Transfer
 * RFC:Request For Comment
 * RFD:Revisable Form Text
 * RIBA:Royal Institute of Britisch Architects
 * RIS:Research Information System Format
 * RLG:Research Libraries Group
 * RNG:Random Number Generator
 * ROARMAP:Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
 * ROARS:Return On Academic ReSearch
 * ROAR:Return On Academic Research
 * RSS:Really Simple Syndication
 * RTF:Rich Text Format
 * RVK:Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation
 * RZG:Rechenzentrum Garching, jetzt MPCDF

S
Standard for exchanging authentication/autorization data by ExLibris Homepage of the Science Image Project Software architecture paradigm, W3C recommendation Search interface specification by the Library of Congress, REST Search interface specification by the Library of Congress, SOAP in the United Kingdom in the Netherlands ePrints Application Profile Subject authority file by DNB
 * SAML:Security Assertion Markup Language
 * SAMP:Simple Application Messaging Protocol
 * SAN:Storage-Area-Network
 * SaaS:Software as a Service
 * SAS:Serial Attached SCSI
 * SBB:Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
 * SCOAP3:Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
 * SCM:Supply-Chain-Management
 * SCP:Secure Copy
 * SDI:Serial Digital Interface
 * SDK:Software Development Kit
 * SD:ScienceDirect
 * SES:Syntax Encoding Schemes
 * SFX:OpenURL Link Resolver
 * SHERPA-RoMEO:Database of publisher's policies on the self- archiving web items
 * SHERPA:Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access
 * Shibboleth:Logging-in system for computer networks
 * SIP:Session Initiation Protocol / Science Image Project
 * SKOS:Simple Knowledge Organisation System
 * SLA:Service-Level-Agreement
 * SLES:SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
 * SLNP:Simple Library Network Protocol
 * SMC:System Management Controller
 * SMTP:Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
 * SNMP:Simple Network Management Protocol
 * SOAP:Simple Object Access Protocol
 * SOA:Service-Oriented Architecture
 * SOIC:Small Outline Integrated Circuit
 * SOLR:Open Source Enterprise Search Platform from the Apache Lucene
 * SOP:Software Organization Platform
 * SPARQL:SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language
 * SPEC:Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
 * SPIRES:Stanford Public Information REtrieval System
 * SPI:Service Pack 1
 * SPSG:Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
 * SPSS:Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
 * SP:Service Provider
 * SQL:Structured Query Language
 * SRU:Search/Retrieval via URL
 * SRW:Search/Retrieval Web Service
 * SRV record:Service record
 * SRV:Service
 * SSH:Secure Shell
 * SSL:Secure Sockets Layer
 * SSRN:Social Science Research Network
 * Stabi:Staatsbibliothek
 * StEM:Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy
 * STFC:Science and Technology Facilities Council
 * STM:International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
 * SUB:Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
 * SuSE:Software- und System-Entwicklung
 * SVG:Scalable Vector Graphics
 * SvM:Service Management
 * SVM:Support Vector Machine
 * SvN:Apache Subversion
 * SVN:Apache Subversion
 * SWAP:Scholarly Works Application Profile
 * SWB:Scholary Workbench
 * SWD:Schlagwort Datei
 * SWORD:Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

T
Homepage see Portal:TWR
 * TBA:To Be Announced
 * TBD:To Be Defined
 * TC:Task Creator
 * TEI:Text Encoding Initiative
 * TEL:The European Library
 * Telco:Telephon Conference
 * TelCo:Telephon Conference
 * telco:Telephon Conference
 * TGN:Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
 * TIB:Technische Informationsbibliothek
 * TIFF:Tagged Image File Format
 * TL:Task Lead
 * TM:Task Manager
 * ToC:Table of Contents
 * TOC:Table of Contents
 * TU:Technische Universität
 * TWR:Technology Watch Report
 * TXT:Filename Extension for Text Files
 * txt:Filename Extension for Text Files

U

 * UBR:Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
 * UB:Universitätsbibliothek
 * UC:Use Case
 * UDF:User Defined Function
 * UIE:User Interface Engineering
 * UKOLN:United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking
 * UK:United Kingdom
 * ULAN:Union List of Artist Names
 * UML:Unified Modeling Language
 * unAPI:Simple Interface for API
 * URI:Uniform Resource Identifier
 * URL:Uniform Resource Locator
 * URN:Uniform Resource Name
 * UTC:Coordinated Universal Time
 * UTF:Unicode Transformation Format

V

 * VBScript:Visual Basic Script
 * VCC:Virtual Competency Center
 * VES:Vocabulary Encoding Schemes
 * VFU:Virtuellen Forschungsumgebung
 * VidCo:Video Conference
 * VidConf:Video Conference
 * ViFa:virutelle Fachbibliothek
 * Virr:Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht
 * ViRR:Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht
 * VIRR:Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht
 * VG Wort:Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort
 * vLib:Virtual Library
 * VM:Virtual Machine
 * VPN:Virtual Private Network
 * VRE:Virtual Research Environment
 * VuFind:Open Source Software Discovery System
 * VZG:Verbundzentrale Göttingen

W

 * WADL:Web Application Description Language
 * WALS:World Atlas of Language Structures
 * WCS:Web Coverage Service
 * WDCC:World Data Center for Climate
 * WF:Workflow
 * WFSI:World Forum on Scientific Information
 * WG:Work Group
 * WLAN:Wireless Local-Area Network
 * WoK:Web of Knowledge
 * WoS:World of Science
 * WP:WordPress
 * WSDL:Web Services Description Language
 * WYSIWYG:What you see is what you get
 * W3C:World Wide Web Consortium

X
by W3C by W3C
 * XACML:eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
 * XHTML:Extensible HyperText Markup Language
 * XML:Extensible Markup Language
 * XMPP:Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
 * XMP:Extensible Metadata Platform
 * XPath:Expression Language Used to Navigate and to Find Structures in XML Documents
 * XSD:XML Schema Definition
 * XSL:Extensible Stylesheet Language
 * XSLT:Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
 * XSS:Cross-Site-Scripting

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Database for journal information and holdings see also Zeitschrift Naturforschung see also Zeitschrift Naturforschung German index of digitized works
 * ZBW:Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
 * ZDB:Zeitschriftendatenbank
 * ZfN:Zeitschrift für Naturforschung
 * ZFN:Zeitschrift für Naturforschung
 * ZVDD:Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke