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D

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


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