Glossary of Metadata Acronyms
A glossary of the terms used on the Marine Metadata Interoperability project web site.
This glossary provides metadata-related definitions for the acronyms used on this web site.
Metadata-Related Acronyms
- ADN
- ADEPT/DLESE/NASA metadata framework
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- API
- Application Program Interface
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- BODC
- British Oceanographic Data Center
- CoRIS
- Coral Reef Information System
- CSDGM
- Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- CSV
- Comma Separated Value
- CTD
- Conductivity - Temperature - Depth
- CV
- Controlled Vocabulary
- DCMI
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- DIF
- Directory Interchange Format
- DL
- Description Logistics
- DLESE
- Digital Library for Earth System Education
- DMAC
- Data Management And Communications
- DOI
- Digital Object Identifier
- DTD
- Document Type Definition
- ER
- Entity-Relational (as in Entity-Relational Diagram)
- ERESE
- Enduring Resources for Earch Science Education
- FGDC
- Federal Geographic Data Committee
- GCMD
- Global Change Master Directory
- GIS
- Geographic Information System
- GML
- Geography Markup Language
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IOOS
- Integrated Ocean Observing System
- ISO
- International Standards Organization
- LC
- Library of Congress
- MARC
- MAchine Readable Cataloging
- MB37
- MultiBeam 37
- MBARI
- Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research Institution
- METS
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standards
- MMI
- Marine Metadata Interoperability
- MOOS
- Monterey Ocean Observing System
- MUSE
- MOOS Upper-Water-Column Science Experiment
- NBII
- National Biological Information Infrastructure
- NetCDF
- Network Common Data Format
- NISO
- National Information Standards organization
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NSDI
- National Spatial Digital Infrastructure
- NSDL
- National Science Digital Library
- OAI
- Open Archives Initiative
- OAI - PMH
- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- OCLC
- Online Computer Library Center
- OGC
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- OWL
- Web Ontology Language
- PMH
- Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- PURL
- Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- QC
- Quality Control
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- SDSC
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
- SGML
- Standard Generalized Markup Language
- SIO
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- SKOS
- Simple Knowledge Organization System
- SOAP
- Simple Object Access Protocol
- SRL
- Semantic Rule Language
- SST
- Sea Surface Temperature
- SUB
- State and University Library
- SVN
- SubVersioN
- UDDI
- Universal DescriptionSynonyms: Discovery and Integration
- UML
- Unified Modeling Language
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- URN
- Uniform Resource Name
- USGS
- United States Geological Survey
- VINE
- Vocabulary INtegration Environment Tool
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- WFS
- Web Feature Service
- WHOI
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- WSDL
- Web Services Description Language
- XBT
- eXpendable BathyThermograph
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language
- XSL
- eXtensible Stylesheet Language
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Posted September 8th, 2009 by paul
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