AGLS

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

Agora

An UK hybrid-library project funded by JISC as part of eLib:
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/agora/

AHDS

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

AMICO

Art Museum Image Consortium:
http://www.amico.org/

ANSI

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

Aquarelle

The Information Network on Cultural Heritage - a Telematics Applications Programme project:
http://aquarelle.inria.fr/aquarelle/welcome.html

BIBLINK

Linking Publishers and National Bibliographic Services - a Telematics for Libraries project:
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/

Biome

The RDN hub for the health and life sciences:
http://www.biome.ac.uk/

Cedars

CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives - a project funded by JISC as part of eLib:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/

CIMI

A consortium of cultural heritage institutions and organisations:
http://www.cimi.org/

COLLATE

Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material -an IST Programme project:
http://www.collate.de/

COVAX

Contemporary Culture Visual Archives in XML - an IST Programme project:
http://www.covax.org/

CSDGM

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata:
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html

CURL

Consortium of University Research Libraries:
http://www.curl.ac.uk/

DC

Dublin Core:
http://www.dublincore.org/

DCMES

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

DDC

Dewey Decimal Classification:
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/

DECOMATE

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

DESIRE

Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education - a Telematics Applications Programme project:
http://www.desire.org/

DNER

Distributed National Electronic Resource - an initiative of JISC:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/

DTD

Document Type Definition

DutchESS

Dutch Electronic Subject Service:
http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/

EAD

Encoded Archival Description:
http://www.loc.gov/ead/

EELS

Engineering Electronic Library Sweden:
http://eels.lub.lu.se/

EEVL

Originally the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, now the RDN hub for engineering, computing and mathematics:
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/

eLib

UK Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by JISC:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/

EOR

Extensible Open RDF toolkit:
http://eor.dublincore.org/

ETB

European Treasury Browser - an IST Programme project:
http://www.eun.org/etb/

EULER

European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical Sciences - a Telematics for Libraries project:
http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/

FDGC

Federal Geographic Data Committee:
http://www.fgdc.gov/

FP4

Fourth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development

FP5

Fifth Framework Programme:
http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/home.html

FVL

Finnish Virtual Library:
http://www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/

GILS

Global Information Locator Service:
http://www.gils.net/

GMD

GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH:
http://www.gmd.de/

HILT

High-Level Thesaurus - project funded by JISC and the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP):
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

Humbul

The RDN hub for the arts and humanities:
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.:
http://www.ieee.org/

IMesh

An international 'community' of subject gateway service providers:
http://www.imesh.org/

IMS

IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.:
http://www.imsproject.org/aboutims.html

ISAD(G)

General International Standard Archival Description - developed by the International Council on Archives:
http://www.ica.org/

ISBD

International Standard Bibliographic Description

IST

Information Society Technologies Programme:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK higher and further education funding councils:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

KB

Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands:
http://www.kb.nl/

LOM

Learning Object Metadata - developed by the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC):
http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/

MARC

MAchine Readable Cataloguing

MARC21

MARC format maintained by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/

METAe

Metadata Engine project - an IST project:
http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/

MODELS

MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services - UKOLN initiative supported by eLib and the British Library:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

MPEG-7

Multimedia Content Description Interface:
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/MPEG7/

NEDLIB

Networked European Deposit Library - a Telematics for Libraries project:
http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/

NISO

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

NOVAgate

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/

OAI

Open Archives Initiative:
http://www.openarchives.org/

OAIS

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System:
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ref_model.html

OCLC

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

OMNI

Organising Medical Networked Information: now part of the RDN hub Biome:
http://www.omni.ac.uk/

PSIgate

RDN hub for the physical sciences:
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/

PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers

RDF

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

RDN

Resource Discovery Network:
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/

Renardus

Academic Subject Gateway Service Europe - an IST Programme project:
http://www.renardus.org/

RKMS

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

RLG

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

ROADS

Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based Services - an eLib project:
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/

SCHEMAS

Forum for Metadata schema implementers - an IST Programme project:
http://www.schemas-forum.org/

SMEF

Standard Media Exchange Framework - developed by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to support media asset management:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/smef/

SOSIG

Social Science Information Gateway - the RDN hub for the social sciences:
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

SSG-FI

Special Subject Guides-Fachinformation:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/

SUB Göttingen

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen):
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

UBCIM

IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration:
http://www.uddi.org/

UKOLN

UK Office for Library and Information Networking:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

UNIMARC

Universal MARC Format - from UBCIM:
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/sec-uni.htm

Z39.50

ANSI/NISO search and retrieve protocol

Maintained by: Michael Day of UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath.
First published in this form: 29-May-2001.
Last updated (and all links checked): 29-May-2001.