Acronyms
- AACR2 - Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd Edition
- AAT - [Getty] Art and Architecture Thesaurus
- ACRL - Association of College and Research Libraries
- ALA - American Library Association
- API - application programming interface
- ARL - Association of Research Libraries
- ARK - Archival Resource Key
- CARE [data or principles] - Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics
- CDWA - [Getty] Categories for the Description of Works of Art
- CLIR - Council on Library and Information Resources
- CLOCKSS - Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
- CNI - Coalition for Networked Information
- COMET - Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Task Force
- CONA - [Getty] Cultural Objects Name Authority
- CRL - Center for Research Libraries
- DAMS - digital asset management system
- DC / DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- DHSI - Digital Humanities Summer Institute
- DLF - Digital Library Federation
- DLF-AIG - Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Groups
- DLF-AIG-MWG - Digital Library Federation, Assessment Interest Group, Metadata Working Group
- DMP - Data Management Plan
- DOAR / OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories
- DOI - Digital Object Identifier
- DPI - dots per inch (in a printed image)
- DPLA - Digital Public Library of America
- DPN - Digital Preservation Network (now disbanded)
- DPOE-N - Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network
- EAD - [Library of Congress] Encoded Archival Description
- EDTF - Extended Date/Time Format (ISO 8601-1 and ISO 8601-2)
- ER&L - Electronic Resources and Libraries
- ERMS - electronic resource management system
- ETD - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (primarily born-digital but could include digitized documents)
- FAIR [data or principles] - findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable
- FRBR - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
- GLAM [organizations] - galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
- IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
- IIPC - International Internet Preservation Consortium
- IR - institutional repository
- ISNI - International Standard Name Identifier
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- ISO 8601 - International [standard]: date and time format
- LC / LOC - Library of Congress
- LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
- LOD - linked open data
- MADS - [Library of Congress] Metadata Authority Description Schema
- MAP - Metadata Application Profile
- MARC - MAchine Readable Cataloging
- METS - [Library of Congress] Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
- MODS - [Library of Congress] Metadata Object Description Schema
- NDIIP - [Library of Congress] National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (no longer active)
- NDSA - [DLF] National Digital Stewardship Alliance
- NDSR [program] - National Digital Stewardship Residency
- NISO - National Information Standards Organization
- OA - open access
- OAI-PMH - Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- OAIS - Open Archival Information System (ISO 14721)
- OCR - optical character recognition
- OLAC - On-Line Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (Network)
- OLAC - Open Language Archives Community
- ORCiD - Open Researcher and Contributor ID
- OWL - [W3C] Web Ontology Language
- PID - Persistent IDentifier
- PPI - pixels per inch (in a digital image)
- PREMIS - Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies
- PURL - Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
- QC / QA - quality control or quality assurance
- RDA - Resource Description and Access
- RDF - [W3C] Resource Description Framework
- ReST - Restructured Text [mark-up]
- SAA - Society of American Archivists
- SKOS - [W3C] Simple Knowledge Organization System
- SPARC - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- TDR - Trusted Digital Repository (ISO 16363)
- TGM - [Library of Congress] Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
- TGN - [Getty] Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- ULAN - [Getty] Union List of Artist Names
- UUID - Universally Unique IDentifier
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File
- VRA - Visual Resources Association
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- XML - eXtensible Markup Language
