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A2A

Administration to Administration Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

A

A2B

Administration to Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

A2C

Administration to Citizen Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ABB

Architectural Building Block in CEF Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Access

As defined in the Handbook, access is assumed to mean continued, ongoing usability of a digital resource, retaining all qualities of authenticity, accuracy and functionality deemed to be essential for the purposes the digital material was created and/or acquired for. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Access Aid

A software program or document that allows Consumers to locate, analyse, order or retrieve information from an OAIS.

ADR

Alternative Dispute Resolution Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ADS

Archaeology Data Service. A UK based service active in digital preservation. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

AIP

Archival Information Package


AJAJ

Asynchronous JavaScript and JSON A group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML A set of web development techniques using many web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AM

Agile Modeling Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AMB

Architecture Board Meeting Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AMIA

Association of Moving Image Archives, an organisation active in the field of moving image archiving. http://www.amianet.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

AP

Access Point An Access Point is defined as an implementation of the AS4 data exchange protocol. In particular, the profile of AS4 developed by eSENS and now maintained by the CEF eDelivery Building Block:  eDelivery AS4 The Access Point must comply with this profile because several options of the original technical specifications were narrowed down in order to increase consistency, interoperability and to simplify deployment. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Apache CXF

An open source services framework. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

API

Application Programming Interface A set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ARC

Container format for websites devised by the Internet Archive, superseded by WARC. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Archival Information Package (AIP)

An Information Package, consisting of the Content Information and the associated Preservation Description Information (PDI), which is preserved within an OAIS.

Archival Information System (AIS)

Archival Information System: It consists of several modules that support individual phases of processing Information Packages or parts of them in the archival environment (e.g. submission module, cataloguing module, ordering module, digital storage module, access module). The number of modules, their features and relationships depend on the local implementation.

Archive

“Materials created or received by a person, family, or organization, public or private, in the conduct of their affairs and preserved because of the enduring value contained in the information they contain or as evidence of the functions and responsibilities of their creator, especially those materials maintained using the principles of provenance, original order, and collective control https://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/a/archives.”

AS1

Applicability Statement 1 Based on SMTP and S/MIME. It was the first AS protocol developed, implementing signing, encryption and MDN conventions. Files are encoded as attachments in a standardised S/MIME message (an AS1 message). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AS2

Applicability Statement 2 The AS2 profile of eDelivery is based on Applicability Statement 2. AS2 was chosen by PEPPOL because of its popularity among EDI Service Providers. Files are encoded as attachments in a standardised S/MIME message (an AS2 message). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AS3

Applicability Statement 3 A standard by which vendor applications communicate over the internet using FTP. AS3 is an EDI protocol. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AS4

Applicability Statement 4 The AS4 profile of eDelivery is the AS4 Usage Profile defined by eSENS based on the AS4 Profile of ebMS3 OASIS Standard. AS4 itself is based on other standards, in particular on OASIS ebXML Messaging Services, which in turn is based on various Web Service specifications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, standard for electronic text. https;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Assurance level

Helps a party to determine, with some level of certainty, that an electronic credential representing an entity (human or a machine) with which it interacts to effect a transaction, can be trusted to actually belong to the entity. There are three levels - 'Low', 'Substantial' and 'High'. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

AT

Automated Translation CEF building block to allow European and national public administrations to exchange information across language barriers in the EU. The main purpose of AT is to make all DSIs multilingual. For example, users of an e-Procurement system or the Open Data Portal will be able to access information and communicate with their counterparts using their own language. While AT is mainly intended to be integrated into other digital services, it also offers useful stand-alone services for translating documents or snippets of text. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

At-Most-Once

Each message will be delivered to the Application Destination at most once. It's possible that a Message will not be delivered to the Application Destination at all, but the Application Destination will never get duplicate messages. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Authentication

A mechanism which attempts to establish the authenticity of digital materials at a particular point in time. For example, digital signatures. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Authenticity

The degree to which a person (or system) regards an object as what it is purported to be. Authenticity is judged on the basis of evidence.

B

B2A

Business to Administration  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

B2B

Business to Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

B2C

Business to Citizen Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

BDXL

Business Document Metadata Service Location Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

binary

A binary file is computer‑readable but not human‑readable. All executable programs are stored in binary files, as are most numeric data files. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

BIS

Business Interoperability Specifications Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Bit

A bit is the basic unit of information in computing. It can have only one of two values commonly represented as either a 0 or 1.The two values can be interpreted as any two-valued attribute (yes/no, on/off, etc). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Bit Preservation

A term used to denote a very basic level of preservation of digital resource as it was submitted( literally preservation of the bits forming a digital resource). It may include maintaining onsite and offsite backup copies, virus checking, fixity-checking, and periodic refreshment to new storage media. Bit preservation is not digital preservation but it does provide one building block for the more complete set of digital preservation practices and processes that ensure the survival of digital content and also its usability, display, context and interpretation over time. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

BO

Back Office Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Born-Digital

" Digital materials which are not intended to have an analogue equivalent, either as the originating source or as a result of conversion to analogue form. This term has been used in the Handbook to differentiate them from 1) digital materials which have been created as a result of converting analogue originals; and 2) digital materials, which may have originated from a digital source but have been printed to paper, e.g. some electronic records.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

BRIS

Business Registers Interconnection System Each MS has a Business Register which sends documents through a Gateway to the ECP, which corresponds to BRIS. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

BUSDOX

Business Document Exchange Network Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

BWF

Broadcast WAV format, the European Broadcasting Union standard for a WAV file, with extra metadata. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000003.shtml; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

C

C1

Corner 1 in the Four-Corner Model. An end entity which exchanges messages with the other end entity (C4) via Access Point intermediaries (C2 and C3). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2

Corner 2 in the Four-Corner Model. An Access Point intermediary which via Access Point intermediaries C3 facilitates the exchange of messages from its end entity (C1) with the other end entity (C4). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2A

Citizen to Administration Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2B 

Citizen to Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2C

Citizen to Citizen Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C3

Corner 3 in the Four-Corner Model. An Access Point intermediary which via Access Point intermediaries C2 facilitates the exchange of messages from its end entity (C4) with the other end entity (C1). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C4

Corner 4 in the Four-Corner Model. An end entity which exchanges messages with the other end entity (C1) via Access Point intermediaries (C2 and C3). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CA

Certification Authority Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Capability Lookup

An ABB which offers a technical service to accommodate a dynamic and flexible interoperability community. A capability lookup can provide metadata about the communication partner’s interoperability capabilities on all levels defined in the EIF (Legall, Organisational, Process, Semantic and Technical interoperability levels). The metadata can be used to dynamically set interoperability parameters and ambitions between the sender and receiver.  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Catalogue

A type of Access Aid that allows a user to search for and identify Information Packages of interest.

CCSDS

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, the body responsible for the OAIS Reference Model. http://public.ccsds.org/default.aspx; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CEF

Connecting Europe Facility Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF AO

CEF Architect Office Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF.AT

A platform funded by CEF to be the core building block used by CEF DSIs for operating in a multilingual way. It includes Machine Translation as a service it offers. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEG

Common Entry Gate See EU-CEG. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEN

European Committee for Standardisation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Chain of Custody

A key concept in forensics whereby the custody and provenance of digital hardware, media and files are safeguarded through, for example, the appointment of evidence custodians. The purpose of the Digital Evidence Bag (DEB) is to hold digitally, along with the evidential digital objects, provenance metadata that can be updated as required; a concept that is familiar to digital preservation practitioners.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Checksum

A unique numerical signature dreived from a file. Used to compare copies. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CIP

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CIPA

Common Infrastructure for Public Administrations Provides a generic solution for public administrations to exchange documents in a secure and reliable way Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CLIR

Council on Library and Information Resources. US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.clir.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CNI

Coalition for Networked Information. US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.cni.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

COD

Component Offering Description Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Component

A part of a record that represents a discrete item of content. For completeness a record including all its components and their content must be managed atomically.

CONNECT (DG)

European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Continuing Access

refers to the right of a subscriber to an electronic publication and their users to have on-going permanent access to electronic materials which have already been leased and paid for by the subscriber from a publisher. It is a term used, along with its synonyms perpetual access and post-cancellation access, in the information industry to describe the ability to retain access to electronic materials by the subscriber/licensee after the contractual licensing agreement with the publisher/licensor for those materials has ended, whatever the reason for the cessation. It may also cover as appropriate arrangements for digital preservation needed to guarantee some elements of continuing access. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary



Coordinate Reference System (CRS)

is a coordinate-based local, regional or global system used to locate geographical entities. A coordinate reference system defines a specific map projection, as well as transformations between different spatial reference systems. Spatial reference systems are defined by the OGC's Simple feature access using well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems, and support has been implemented by several standards-based geographic information systems.

C

COPTR

Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry hosted by The Open Preservation Foundation. http://coptr.digipres.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Corpora

Large and structured sets of text or speech audio files used in linguistic Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

COTS

The term Commercial off-the-shelf product (hardware or software) refers to readily available products that can be acquired from the market (instead of being developed in-house) Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CPA

Collaboration Protocol Agreement Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Crawl

The act of browsing the web automatically and methodically to index or download content and other data from the web. The software to do this is often called a web crawler. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CRL

Certificate Revocation List Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CS

Committee Specification Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CSAD

Component Software Architecture Document Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CSP

Certification Service Provider  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

D

DAD

Disciplined Agile Delivery Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Dark Archive

is an archive that cannot be accessed by any current users but may be accessible at future dates subject to the occurrence of specific pre-defined events ('trigger event'). Access to the data is either limited to a few set individuals or completely restricted to all. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Database

A database is an organised collection of data. It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views and other objects.

DB

Database Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DCC

Digital Curation Centre. A UK based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.dcc.ac.uk; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DDI

Data Documentation Initiative. A de facto international metadata standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DES

Data Encryption Standard Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Descriptive Metadata

Metadata that describes the data content.

DGT

European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DigCurV

Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe. A project funded by the European Commission to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation. http://www.digcurv.gla.ac.uk/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DIGIT

European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Digital Archiving

This term is used very differently within sectors. The library and archiving communities often use it interchangeably with digital preservation. Computing professionals tend to use digital archiving to mean the process of backup and ongoing maintenance as opposed to strategies for long-term digital preservation. It is this latter richer definition, as defined under digital preservation which has been used throughout this Handbook. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digital Forensics

The application of scientific technical methods and tools toward the preservation, collection, validation, identification, analysis, interpretation, documentation and presentation of digital information derived after-the-fact from digital sources. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

digital geodata records

Digital geodata records are records containing a spatial graphical component, describing objects in space. They can be created digitally, or digitized from an analogue source (paper maps)

Digital material

The term used to describe the digital assets of an archive, contained in Information Packages.

Digital Materials

" A broad term encompassing digital surrogates created as a result of converting analogue materials to digital form (digitisation), and ""born digital"" for which there has never been and is never intended to be an analogue equivalent, and digital records.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digital Object

An object composed of a set of bit sequences.

Digital Preservation

" Refers to the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary. Digital preservation is defined very broadly for the purposes of this study and refers to all of the actions required to maintain access to digital materials beyond the limits of media failure or technological and organisational change. Those materials may be records created during the day-to-day business of an organisation; ""born-digital"" materials created for a specific purpose (e.g. teaching resources); or the products of digitisation projects. This Handbook specifically excludes the potential use of digital technology to preserve the original artefacts through digitisation. See also Digitisation definition below.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digital Provenance

Documentation of processes in a Digital Object’s life cycle. Digital provenance typically describes Agents responsible for the custody and stewardship of Digital Objects, key Events that occur over the course of the Digital Object’s life cycle, and other information associated with the Digital Object’s creation, management, and preservation http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v3/premis-3-0-final.pdf

Digital Publications

" ""Born digital"" objects which have been released for public access and either made available or distributed free of charge or for a fee. They may consist of networked publications, available over a communications network or physical format publications which are distributed on formats such as floppy or optical disks. They may also be either static or dynamic.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digital Records

See Electronic Records;; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digital Resources

See Digital Materials;; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Digitisation

" The process of creating digital files by scanning or otherwise converting analogue materials. The resulting digital copy, or digital surrogate, would then be classed as digital material and then subject to the same broad challenges involved in preserving access to it, as ""born digital"" materials.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Dim Archive

provides bit preservation for the content plus digital preservation planning and actions for long-term perpetual access, and also limited current access (perhaps limited to on-site users or previous subscribers post-cancellation, etc.). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DIP

Dissemination Information Package


Dissemination Information Package (DIP)

Dissemination Information Package: an Information Package, derived from one or more AIPs, and sent by Archives to the Consumer in response to a request to the OAIS.

DLF

Digital Library Federation. A US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.diglib.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DNN

Deep Neural Net Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DNS

Domain Name System Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DO

Deliver Operation The Deliver Operation occurs at the endpoints and only once per message lifetime. Any Actions performed by an intermediary will be defined in different terms. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DOI

Digital Object Identifier. A technical and organisational infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent identifiers widely used in digital publications and for research data. The DOI system was created by the International DOI Foundation and was adopted as International Standard ISO 26324 in 2012. http://www.doi.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Domibus

ebMS3 Access Point based on the AS4 profile. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DPC

Digital Preservation Coalition. A UK and Ireland based organisation active in digital preservation and responsible for the Digital Preservation Handbook. http://www.dpconline.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DPTP

Digital Preservation Training Programme, an intensive training course run by the University of London Computer Centre. https;//dptp.london.ac.uk/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DRAMBORA

Digital Repository Audit Methodology Based on Risk Assessment. A set of risk assessment tools developed by the Digital Curation Centre. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/repository-audit-and-assessment/drambora; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DROID

A file profiling tool developed and distributed by TNA to identify file formats. Based on PRONOM. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/policy-process/digital-continuity/file-profiling-tool-droid/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

DSI

Digital Service Infrastructure Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

DSL

Dynamic Service Location Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

E

e-CODEX

e-Justice domain enabling citizens and businesses to have cross-border access of legal means in Europe. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

e-SENS

Electronic Simple European Networked Services Large-scale pilot project with the aim of consolidating, improving, and extending technical solutions based around the building block DSIs to foster digital interaction with public administrations across the EU. It improves the cross-border access of citizens and businesses in the different areas of eGovernment. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EAD

Encoded Archival Description. A non-proprietary de facto standard for the encoding of finding aids for use in a networked (online) environment. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections of archival materials. EAD allows the standardization of collection information in finding aids within and across repositories.

ebBP

ebXML Business Process Specification Schema Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ebCore

ebXML Core Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ebMS

ebXML Messaging Service Specification Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EBSI

European Blockchain Services Infrastructure  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ebXML

Electronic Business XML Project to use XML to standardise the secure exchange of business data. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Eclipse

A platform for developing software applications. It can be downloaded at http://www.eclipse.org/ Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ECMA

European Computer Manufacturers Association Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ECP

European Central Platform Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eDelivery

CEF building block to allow public administrations to exchange electronic data and documents with other public administrations, businesses and citizens, in an interoperable, secure, reliable and trusted way. eDelivery is based on the concept of a four corner model, where the end entities (corners one and four) exchange messages via Access Point intermediaries (corners two and three). eDelivery standardises the communication only between these Access Point intermediaries. Communication between Access Points and end entities may use any communication protocol. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange The transfer of data from one computer system to another by standardised message formatting, without the need for human intervention. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EDIFACT

Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EDIG@s

Electronic Data Interchange Gas EDIG@s is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standard for the buying, selling, transporting and storage of gas. It is an official subset of the UN EDIFACT standard. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EDIINT

Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EEA

European Economic Area Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EESSI

Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information. EESSI is owned by DG EMPL. It aims at improving the cross border communication between the national social security institutions of 32 countries (EU+EFTA Member States), by introducing an electronic communication platform for efficient exchange of information Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eID

electronic Identification CEF building block to allow public administrations and businesses to easily extend the use of their online services to citizens from other EU Member States. It allows cross-border authentication, in a secure, reliable and trusted way, by making existing national electronic identification systems interoperable. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eIDAS

Electronic Identification and Trust Services => eID and eTS eID and eTS are key enablers for secure cross-border electronic transactions and central building blocks of the Digital Single Market. The eIDAS Regulation does the following: Ensures that people and businesses can use their own national eID schemes to access public services in other EU countries where eIDs are available. Creates a European internal market for eTS by ensuring it works across borders and has the same legal status as traditional paper based processes. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EIF

European Interoperability Framework Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eInvoicing

CEF building block to allow public administrations to implement electronic invoicing in compliance with the eInvoicing Directive of the European Parliament and the Council. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Records

Records created digitally in the day-to-day business of the organisation and assigned formal status by the organisation. They may include for example, word processing documents, emails, databases, or intranet web pages. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Electronic Records Management System (ERMS)

Electronic Records Management System is a type of content management system for managing electronic records.

ELRC

European Language Resource Coordination. Manages, maintains and coordinates the relevant language resources in all official languages of the EU and CEF associated countries. Is the brand name given to SMART 2015 1091 Lot 2 selected tender Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EMPL (DG)

European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Emulation

A means of overcoming technological obsolescence of hardware and software by developing techniques for imitating obsolete systems on future generations of computers. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

endpoint

A party which receives messages is an endpoint. While it's theoretically possible that a party was never an endpoint, this would mean that that party never received a message from any other party. Therefore, in practice, each party is always an endpoint for one or more other parties. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ENTSOG

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EPO

European Payment Order Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ERDS

Electronic Registered Delivery Service Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ESB

Enterprise Service Bus Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Escrow

A widespread legal practice of the deposit of content or software source code with a third party. Escrow takes place in a contractual relationship, formalized in an escrow agreement, between at least three parties; the provider, the customer, and the third party providing the escrow service.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

ESI

Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eSignature

CEF building block to allow public administrations and businesses to accelerate the creation and verification of electronic signatures. The introduction of eSignature serves to significantly reduce the time required to conduct business and legal transactions, whilst also reducing the use of paper documents and therefore contributing to the sustainable economy Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eTG

eCom Technology Group Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eTS

electronic Trust Services electronic signatures electronic seals time stamp electronic delivery service website authentication By providing certainty on the legal validity of all these services, eTS seeks to ensure that businesses and citizens will use digital interaction as their natural way of conducting their affairs. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ETSI ESI

The committee dealing with digital signatures (signature format, certificates, CSPs, trusted list) and ancillary services (Registered e-mail, Registered e-delivery, Time-Stamping, Long-term data preservation). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EU-CEG

European Common Entry Gate Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EUP

Enterprise Unified Process Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EURAMIS

"DGT’s internal translation memory database; complement definition with DGT's input if needed. A clone of DGT’s internal translation memory database, Euramis also exists; complement definition with DGT's input if needed" Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EVM

Earned Value Management aka EVPM Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

EVPM

Earned Value Project/Performance Management aka EVM Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

F

FIAF

International Federation of Film Archives, an association of the world's leading film archives. http://www.fiafnet.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

FIAT

International Federation of Television Archives, a professional association for those engaged in the preservation and exploitation of broadcast archives. http://fiatifta.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

File Format

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It tells the computer how to display, print, and process, and save the information. It is dictated by the application program which created the file, and the operating system under which it was created and stored. Some file formats are designed for very particular types of data, others can act as a container for different types. A particular file format is often indicated by a file name extension containing three or four letters that identify the format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Finding Aid

A type of Access Aid that allows a user to search for and identify Information Packages of interest.

FIWARE

Future Internet ware A middleware platform, driven by the European Union, for the development and global deployment of applications for Future Internet. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Fixity Check

a method for ensuring the integrity of a file and verifying it has not been altered or corrupted. During transfer, an archive may run a fixity check to ensure a transmitted file has not been altered en route. Within the archive, fixity checking is used to ensure that digital files have not been altered or corrupted. It is most often accomplished by computing checksums such as MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 for a file and comparing them to a stored value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Fixity; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

FTP

File Transfer Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

G

Geodata layer

A Geodata layer is a representation of one or many geospatial datasets within a GIS System. It can contain additional representation information such as visualisation, labelling of the dataset, visibility under certain conditions based on scale, SQL query, etc.

Geoprocessing workflows

Geoprocessing workflows are usually defined as a set of Geoprocessing tasks organized into a process. Geoprocessing tasks are functions of a GIS system used to manipulate, transform or manage geospatial datasets, maps and tables.

Geospatial dataset

Geospatial datasets are sets of records defining a type of object in space. For example a vector dataset of roads will contain graphical representations of roads and a respective table containing attributes describing each object within the data model of the dataset.

Geospatial reference

Geospatial reference is the definition of the coordinate reference system for the geospatial dataset

GIF

Graphic Interchange Format, an image which typically uses lossy compression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Gigabyte (GB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Megabytes (MB). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

GIS

Abbreviation for Geographical Information System, which is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.

GIS Project

A GIS project is a document that organizes geospatial datasets into layers, defines the map representations, then reports and stores information on Geoprocessing workflows.

GLN

Global Location Number Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

GNU

"A recursive acronym for ""GNU's Not Unix!""." The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

GS1

Global Language for Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

GW

Gateway  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

GZIP

GNU ZIP A file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

H

HL7

Health Level-7 A set of international standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is layer 7 in the OSI model. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language, a format used to present text and other information on the World Wide Web. Since 1996, versions of the HTML specification have been maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

HTTPS

aka HTTP over SSL Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

I

IASA

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, an association for archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents. http://www.iasa-web.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

ICD

Interface Control Document Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ID

Identifier Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

IIPC

The International Internet Preservation Consortium. http://www.netpreserve.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Implementing Act

Once an EU law is passed, it can be necessary to update it to reflect developments in a particular sector or to ensure that it is implemented properly. Parliament and Council can authorise the Commission to adopt delegated or implementing acts, respectively, in order to do this. Primary responsibility for implementing EU law lies with EU countries. However, in areas where uniform conditions for implementation are needed (taxation, agriculture, the internal market, health and food safety, etc.), the Commission (or exceptionally the Council) adopts an implementing act. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

INEA

Innovation and Networks Executive Agency Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Information Assurance

An aspect of digital security, specifically directed at ensuring that the quality of the information is demonstrably safeguarded, that it has not been tampered with or accessed inappropriately. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Information Package (IP)

A logical container composed of optional Content Information and optional associated Preservation Description Information. Associated with this Information Package is Packaging Information used to delimit and identify the Content Information and Package Description information used to facilitate searches for the Content Information.

Ingest

the process of turning a Submission Information Package (SIP) into an Archival Information Package (AIP), i.e. putting data into a digital archive (OAIS term). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

InterPARES

project International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems. http://www.interpares.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Inventory

A list of things. A finding aid that includes, at a minimum, a list of the series in a collection. In Records Management, it is the process of surveying the records in an office, typically at the series level.

IP

Internet Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

IPR

Intellectual Property Right Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

IS

Information System Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ISA

Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ISAD(G)

General International Standard Archival Description - Second edition.

ISO

International Organization for Standardization. http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

ISSP

The Information System Security Policy developed by DG ADMIN/DS Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ITIL

Information Technology Infrastructure Library Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ITTO

Input, Output, Tools and Techniques Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

J

J2EE

Previous name for Java EE. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JAR

Java Archive A package file format typically used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources (text, images, ...) into one file in order to distribute application software or libraries on the Java platform. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Java EE

Java Enterprise Edition Java EE provides an API and runtime environment for developing and running enterprise software, including network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JavaScript

A high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language, which has been standardised in the ECMAScript language specification. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JAXB

Java Architecture for XML Binding A Java API that makes it easier to access XML documents from applications written in the Java programming language. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JBoss

J2EE application server for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, Web applications and services, and portals. JBoss is now known as WildFly. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JHove2

A characterization tool for digital objects. Characterisation is comprised of four elements;" identifying the object's format; validating that the object conforms to its format's technical norms;, extracting technical metadata from the object; and assessing whether the object should be accepted into a repository, based on policies set by the curator. https";//bitbucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/Home Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

JMS

Java Message Service A messaging standard that allows Java EE application components to create, send, receive and read messages. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JPA

Java Persistence API Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group, a committee that oversees international standards for compression and processing of digital photographs . The majority of JPEG formats are lossy. http://www.jpeg.org/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

JPEG 2000

a revision of the JPEG format which can use lossless compression. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation Open-standard format using human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs. It is the most common data format used for asynchronous browser/server communication (AJAJ) where it has largely replaced XML, which is used by AJAX. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

JUST

European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and consumers Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

K

Kerkovi

The eSENS generic AS4 Conformance and Interoperability bridge that achieves connectivity between the testing system (Minder Testbed) and the AS4-compliant Gateways. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Kilobyte (KB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Bytes;; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

KPI

Key Performance Indicator Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

L

LAA

Legal Assurance and Accountability Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Life-cycle Management

" Records management practices have established life-cycle management for many years, for both paper and electronic records. The major implications for life-cycle management of digital resources, whatever their form or function, is the need actively to manage the resource at each stage of its life-cycle and to recognise the inter-dependencies between each stage and commence preservation activities as early as practicable. This represents a major difference with most traditional preservation, where management is largely passive until detailed conservation work is required, typically, many years after creation and rarely, if ever, involving the creator. There is an active and inter-linked life-cycle to digital resources which has prompted many to promote the term ""continuum"" to distinguish it from the more traditional and linear flow of the life-cycle for traditional analogue materials. We have used the term life-cycle to apply to this pro-active concept of preservation management for digital materials.";; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Lossless compression

Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though usually with improved compression rates.

Lossy Compression

A mechanism for reducing file sizes that typically discards data. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

LOTAR

(LOng Term Archiving and Retrieval) a digital preservation standard for 3D CAD models and product data management information developed by LOTAR International, an industrial consortium of aerospace and defence companies from the US and Europe. http://www.lotar-international.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

LSP

Large Scale Pilot Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

LZW

Lempel–Ziv–Welch is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.

M

M2M

Machine to Machine Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

machine- readable documentation

A machine-readable document is a document whose content can be readily processed by computers. Such documents are distinguished from machine-readable data by virtue of having sufficient structure to provide the necessary context to support the business processes for which they are created.

Managed Service

Service Management is a set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services. A service is a means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MC

Message Consumer The Message Consumer is an entity that interacts with a Receiving MSH (i.e. an MSH in the Receiving role) to consume data from a received user message. Some examples are: An application. A queuing system. Another SOAP processor. The Consumer is always an MSH endpoint. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MDN

Message Disposition Notification The acknowledgment sent in response to an AS2 message. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Megabyte (MB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Kilobytes (KB). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

MEP

Message Exchange Pattern A Message Exchange Pattern describes the pattern of messages required by a communications protocol to establish or use a communication channel. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Metadata

A characterization or description documenting the identification, management, nature, use, or location of information resources (data). Metadata is commonly defined as “data about data.” Metadata is frequently used to locate or manage information resources by abstracting or classifying those resources or by capturing information not inherent in the resource. Metadata is typically organized into distinct categories and relies on conventions to establish the values for each category. For example, administrative metadata may include the date and source of acquisition, disposal date, and disposal method. Descriptive metadata may include information about the content and form of the materials. Preservation metadata may record activities to protect or extend the life of the resource, such as reformatting. Structural metadata may indicate the interrelationships between discrete information resources, such as page numbers. In terms of archives, MARC format and EAD are standards for structuring descriptive metadata about collections. Dublin Core is a standard for structuring metadata that is intended for describing web resources.

METS

The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ 

Migration

A means of overcoming technological obsolescence by transferring digital resources from one hardware/software generation to the next. The purpose of migration is to preserve the intellectual content of digital objects and to retain the ability for clients to retrieve, display, and otherwise use them in the face of constantly changing technology. Migration differs from the refreshing of storage media in that it is not always possible to make an exact digital copy or replicate original features and appearance and still maintain the compatibility of the resource with the new generation of technology. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol for including non-ASCII information in email messages. Software typically include interpreters that convert MIME content to and from its native format, as necessary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Minder

An OSS generic testing environment, checking the technical conformance and interoperability of CEF building blocks. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MLA

Mutual Legal Assistance Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MP

Message Producer The Message Producer is an entity that interacts with a Sending MSH (i.e. an MSH in the Sending role) to initiate the sending of a user message. Some examples are: An application. A queuing system. Another SOAP processor. But not another MSH! The Producer is always an MSH endpoint. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MPC

Message Partition Channel Different MPCs can exist, each defined as a Container. An MPC allows the flow of messages from a Sending MSH to a Receiving MSH to be partitioned into several flows, each of which is controlled separately. An MPC also allows flows from several Sending MSHs to be merged into a single unique flow that will be treated as such by a Receiving MSH. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group. A committee responsible for the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination. https;//mpeg.chiariglione.org/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

MS

Member State(s) Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MSA

Master Service Arragement Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MSH

Message Service Handler The MSH is an entity that is able to generate or process messages that conform to the ebMS specification, and which act in at least one of the two ebMS roles: Sender and Receiver. In terms of SOAP processing, an MSH is either a SOAP processor or a chain of SOAP processors. In either case, an MSH has to be able to understand the eb:Messaging header (qualified with the ebMS namespace). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MT

Machine Translation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MT@EC

The Machine Translation service of the European Commission Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

MTOM

Message Transfer Optimisation Mechanism or Message Transmission Optimisation Mechanism From SOAP. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

N

NCDD

The Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation. http://www.ncdd.nl/en/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

NDSA

National Digital Stewardship Alliance a US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

NESTOR

The German competence network for digital preservation. http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/EN/Home/home_node.html/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

NLP

Natural language processing Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Nonce

A number or bit string used only once in security engineering. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

NRR

Non-Repudiation of Receipt Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

O

OAIS

The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) is an archive (and a standard: ISO 14721:2003), consisting of an organisation of people and systems that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community.

OASIS

Advancing open standards for the information society Non-profit, international consortium creating interoperable industry specifications based on public standards. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ODR

Online Dispute Resolution Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

OMB

Operational Management Board Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Open Archival Information System

(OAIS) An Archive, consisting of an organization, which may be part of a larger organization, of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community. It meets a set of responsibilities, as defined in section 4 of the OAIS standard that allows an OAIS Archive to be distinguished from other uses of the term ?ÇÿArchive?ÇÖ. The term ?ÇÿOpen?ÇÖ in OAIS is used to imply that the OAIS standards are developed in open forums, and it does not imply that access to the Archive is unrestricted. The OAIS abbreviation is also used commonly to refer to the Open Archival Information System reference model standard which defined the term. The standard is a conceptual framework describing the environment, functional components, and information objects associated with a system responsible for the long-term preservation. As a reference model, its primary purpose is to provide a common set of concepts and definitions that can assist discussion across sectors and professional groups and facilitate the specification of archives and digital preservation systems. It has a very basic set of conformance requirements that should be seen as minimalist. OAIS was first approved as ISO Standard 14721 in 2002 and a 2nd edition was published in 2012. Although produced under the leadership of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), it had major input from libraries and archives. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

OPF

Open Preservation Foundation, formerly the Open Planets Foundation. http://openpreservation.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection The OSI model is a conceptual model that characterises and standardises the communication functions of a telecommunication or computing system without regard to their underlying internal structure and technology. Its goal is the interoperability of diverse communication systems with standard protocols. The model partitions a communication system into abstraction layers. The original version of the model defined seven layers. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

OSS

Open Source Software Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Oxalis

Oxalis is a PEPPOL Access Point OSS implementation. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

P

PAIMAS

Space Data and Information Transfer Systems - Producer-Archive Interface - Methodology Abstract Standard. This ISO 20652;2006 standard covers the first stages of the ingest process defined by OAIS reference model. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39577 Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PAO

Project and Architecture Office Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PConf

Processing Mode Configuration A text file with extension .pconf is used by an Eclipse plug-in to generate the PMode XML file. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PDF

Portable Document Format, a set of formats and open standards maintained by the International Organization for Standardization for producing and sharing electronic documents originally developed by Adobe Systems. The original page description format has been elaborated over successive versions to enable the embedding of such complex objects as image, audio, and moving image files, hyperlinks, embedded XML metadata, and updatable forms. Specification for various versions and profiles of the format are now maintained by the International Standards Organization. http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PDF/A

Versions of the PDF standard intended for archival use. http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Standards/Committees/PDFA; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PDI

Preservation Description Information. The information which is necessary for adequate preservation of the Content Information and which can be categorized as Provenance, Reference, Fixity, Context, and Access Rights Information (OAIS term). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PEPPOL

Pan-European Public Procurement Online Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Perpetual Access

see Continuing Access. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Petabyte (PB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Terabytes (TB). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PIN

P??rennisation des Informations Num??riques, the French national interest group for digital preservation. http://pin.association-aristote.fr/doku.php; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PMode

Processing Mode A collection of parameters that determine how User Messages are exchanged between a pair of Access Points with respect to Quality of Service, Transmission Mode and Error Handling. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PoC

Point of Contact Name of contact person. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

POJO

Plain Old Java Object  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Post-cancellation Access

see Continuing Access. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PREMIS

The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of Digital Objects and ensure their long-term usability. Developed by an international team of experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and supporting documentation. http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

Preservation Description Information

“The information which is necessary for adequate preservation of the Content Information and which can be categorized as Provenance, Reference, Fixity, Context, and Access Rights Information.”

Preservation metadata

Preservation metadata is an essential component of most digital preservation strategies. As an increasing proportion of the world’s information output shifts from analogue to digital form, it is necessary to develop new strategies to preserve this information for the long-term. Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the digital preservation process. Preservation metadata is sometimes considered a subset of technical or administrative metadata.

Profile (European Profile)

In standardization, a profile is a subset internal to a specification. Aspects of a complex technical specification may necessarily have more than one interpretation, and there are probably many optional features. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Projected coordinate systems

Geospatial data can have a geographic coordinate system or a projected coordinate system or a geographic projection. Projections are used to define coordinates in distance units as opposed to angular units in geographic coordinate systems.

PRONOM

A database of file formats, software products and other technical components required to support long-term access to electronic records and other digital objects of cultural, historical or business value. Used with DROID. http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

PSC

Point of Single Contact Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PSP

Policy Support Programme Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

PST

Personal Storage Table is a file extension for local 'personal stores' written by the program Microsoft Outlook. PST files contain email messages and calendar entries using a proprietary but open format, and they may be found on local or networked drives of email end users. Several tools can read and migrate PST files to other formats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Storage_Table; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Q

QoS

Quality of Service Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

R

RA

Registration Authority Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Record

A Record is defined as “information created, received and maintained as evidence and information by an organization or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business” (ISO 15489-1:2001, 3.15).

Reformatting

Copying information content from one storage medium to a different storage medium (media reformatting) or converting from one file format to a different file format (file re-formatting). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Refreshing

Copying information content from one storage media to the same storage media. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

RSP

Reliable Secure Profile Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

RUP

Rational Unified Process Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

S

S/MIME

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions A standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SAD

Software Architecture Document Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language SAML is an XML standard that allows secure web domains to exchange user authentication and authorisation data. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sample implementation/software

Software developed by CEF that may be used to get familiar with the technical specifications in a test environment or as a working solution in a production environment Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sandbox Containment

A secure computing environment for running novel, unattested or experimental code or changes in code, including potentially malicious code. The environment is self-contained with tightly controlled resources and is characteristically virtual. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SANTE (DG)

European Commission's Directorate-General Health and Food Safety Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SAT

Self-Assessment Tool Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SBB

Solution Building Block Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SBDH

Standard Business Document Header From UN/CEFACT. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ScP

Scalability and Performance Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SDD

Service Delivery Document Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SDO

Standards Developing Organisation  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sec

Security Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language an ISO standard for how to specify a document markup language or tag set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Short-term preservation

Access to digital materials either for a defined period of time while use is predicted but which does not extend beyond the foreseeable future and/or until it becomes inaccessible because of changes in technology. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Significant properties

Characteristics of digital and intellectual objects that must be preserved over time in order to ensure the continued accessibility, usability and meaning of the objects and their capacity to be accepted as (evidence of) what they purport to be. https;//www.archives.gov/files/era/acera/pdf/significant-properties.pdf; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SIP

Submission Information Package


SLA

Service Level Agreement Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SML

Service Metadata Locator Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SMO

Stakeholder Management Office Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SMP

Service Metadata Publisher Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a professional organisation and technical standards body for television and motion picture. https;//www.smpte.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SO

Submit Operation The Submit Operation occurs at the endpoints and only once per message lifetime. Any Actions performed by an intermediary will be defined in different terms. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SOC

Service Offering Canvas Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SOD

Service Offering Description Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SPOCS

Simple Procedure Online for Cross-Border Services SPOCS was a CIP LSP project that was active between May 2009 and December 2012. SPOCS aimed to build the next generation of PSC online portals – which every European country now has in place – through the availability of high impact cross-border electronic procedures. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remains private and whole. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Structural Metadata

"Structural metadata describes the physical and/or logical structure of digital resources; it expresses the intellectual boundaries of complex objects and can be used to describe relationships between an object's component parts. Structural metadata is commonly used to facilitate navigation and presentation of complex items by defining structural characteristics such as pagination and sequence. And, like METS, can be used to aggregate related metadata. "

Submission Information Package (SIP)

An Information Package that is delivered by the Producer to the OAIS for use in the construction or update of one or more AIPs and/or the associated Descriptive Information.

SUT

System Under Test Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

T

TC

Technical Committee Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TDD

Test-Driven Development Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TDR

Trusted Digital Repository. A trusted digital repository has been defined as having ?Ç£a mission to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and into the future?Ç¥. The TDR must include the following seven attributes; compliance with the reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), administrative responsibility, organizational viability, financial sustainability, technological and procedural suitability, system security, and procedural accountability. The concept has been an important one particularly in relation to certification of digital repositories.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Terabyte (TB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Gigabytes (GB). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Testing environment

A testing environment is a setup of software and hardware for the testing teams to execute test cases. In other words, it supports test execution with hardware, software and network configured. Test bed or test environment is configured as per the need of the Application Under Test. On a few occasion, test bed could be the combination of the test environment and the test data it operates. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Three-Legged Stool

A conceptual approach to digital preservation that suggests a fully implemented and viable preservation programme addresses organisational issues, technological concerns, and funding questions, balancing them like a three-legged stool. Developed as part of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop and Tutorial. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format, a common format for images typically lossless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TLS

Transport Layer Security A protocol that ensures privacy and message integrity between communicating applications and their users on the internet. TLS is the successor to SSL. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TO

Technical Office Responsible for components and software development. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TPD

Tobacco Products Directive Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TRAC

Trusted Repository Audit and Certification, toolkit for auditing a digital repository. http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Trigger Event

This terminology is used when specific conditions relating to an electronic publication and its continued delivery to users are met. If the publication is no longer available to users from the publisher or any other source for a variety of reasons then a trigger event is said to have occurred. They can set in motion access for users via an archive where the electronic publication may be digitally preserved. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TSO

Transmission System Operators ENTSOG is one such TSO. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

U

UKWA

UK Web Archive. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

UN

United Nations  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

UN/CEFACT

United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

URL

Uniform Resource Locator Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

W

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium The main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

W3C Standard

W3C standards define an Open Web Platform for application development that has the unprecedented potential to enable developers to build rich interactive experiences, powered by vast data stores, that are available on any device. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WAR

Web Application Archive Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WARC

The WARC (Web ARChive) format is a container format for archived websites, also known as ISO 28500;2009. It is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format used to store web crawls harvested from the World Wide Web. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44717 Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

WAV

" the standard file wrapper for audio; see BWF (Broadcast WAV Format) for the professional variant. http";//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Well-defined geospatial position

As defined with a coordinate reference system

Well-documented graphical component

Defined using a standardized or proprietary format for geospatial information, that stores coordinates of objects or their representations in space

WildFly

Application Server formerly known as JBoss. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WLST

Weblogic Scripting Tool Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Writeblockers

Tools that prevent an examination computer system from writing or altering a collection or subject hard drive or other digital media object. Hardware writeblockers are generally regarded as more reliable than software writeblockers. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

WS

Web Services Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WS-I

Web Service Interoperability organisation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WS-Reliability

SOAP-based OASIS specification that fulfils reliable messaging requirements critical to some applications of web services. N.B. WS-Reliability has been superseded by WS‑ReliableMessaging. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WS-Security

SOAP-based OASIS specification that applies security to Web Services. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSDL

Web Services Description Language The WSDL represents a contract for the web service, it defines what the web service does. It's largely created by copy and pasting from other places. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSRM

Web Service Reliable Messaging Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSS

Web Server Software Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSSE

WSSE is a family of open security specifications for SOAP web services. The basic premise of WSSE is that a request header is checked for encrypted credentials, verified using a timestamp and nonce, and authenticated for the requested user using a password digest. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

X

X.509

Cryptography standard for PKI. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XML

Extensible Markup Language, a widely used standard (derived from SGML), for representing structured information, including documents, data, configuration, books, and transactions. It is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). http://www.w3.org/XML/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

XMLDSIG

XML Digital Signature Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XMLENC

XML Encryption A stream-based XML output library for the Java programming language. Designed with the goals of speed and simplicity. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XP

eXtreme Programming Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XPath

A syntax for defining parts of an XML document. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XSD

XML Schema Definition W3C recommendation that specifies how to formally describe the elements in XML. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Z

ZIP

An archive file format that supports lossless data compression. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary


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