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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


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