| Term |
Definition |
|
DC |
See: Dublin Core |
| Dublin Core |
A metadata format defined on the basis of international consensus which has defined a minimal information resource description, generally for use in a WWW environment.
http://purl.org/dc/ |
| EAD |
Encoding Archival Description. An SGML-based metadata format developed for the description of archives.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/ |
| GILS |
Government Information Locator Service. Metadata format created by the US Federal Government in order to provide a means of locating information generated by government agencies.
http://www.gils.net/index.html |
| HTML |
Hypertext Mark-up Language. The standard language used for creating Web documents.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force.
http://www.ietf.org/ |
| MARC |
Machine Readable Cataloguing. A family of formats based on ISO 2709 for the exchange of bibliographic and other elated information in machine readable form. For example: USMARC, UKMARC and UNIMARC.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ |
| Metadata |
Data which provides information about a resource. |
| NISO |
National Information Standards Organization.
http://www.niso.org/ |
| OCLC |
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
http://www.oclc.org/ |
| PICS |
Platform for Internet Content Selection. Internet content filtering infrastructure.
http://www.w3.org/PICS/ |
| PURL |
Persistent Uniform Resource Locator.
http://www.purl.org/ |
| RDF |
Resource Description Framework. RDF is currently under development with the W3C and provides a framework for metadata in different application areas, e.g. resource discovery, content ratings, and intellectual property.
http://www.w3.org/RDF/ |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. The standard way to give the address of a source of information on the WWW. |
| WebDAV |
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. An IETF Working Group.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/webdav-charter.html |
| World Wide Web Consortium |
Organization currently responsible for the development of Web protocols.
http://www.w3.org/ |
| WWW |
World Wide Web. |
| W3C |
See: World Wide Web Consortium |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language. A lightweight version of SGML designed for use on the Internet.
http://www.w3.org/XML/ |
| Z39.50 |
A NISO standard for an applications layer protocol for information retrieval which is specifically designed to aid retrieval from distributed servers.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/ |
