Acronyms
This is a non-exhaustive list of full names for acronyms and initialisms that staff working with digital collections or engaging in similar library activities may encounter. When applicable, links have been included to the associated entity for more information.
- 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
- LCCN - Library of Congress Control Number
- LCGFT - Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- LCMPT - Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus
- LCNAF - Library of Congress Name Authority File
- LCSH - Library of Congress Subject Headings
- 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