NINCH guide table of contents

 

Abbreviations Used in the Guide

 

AAT

Art and Architecture Thesarus

or Applications of Advanced Technologies Program

AHDS

Arts and Humanities Data Service

AIF

Audio Interchange File Format

AMICO

Art Museum Image Consortium

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BAMPFA

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

BL

British Library

CCP

Classics Computer Project

CD

Compact Disc

CDL

Californian Digital Library

CDP

Colorado Digitization Project

CIDC

Cornell Institute for Digital Collections

CIMI

Consortium Museum Intelligence

CITI

Chicago Information, Tracking and Inquiry

CMS

Collection Management Services (Division, Library of Virginia)

CMYK

Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black

CNN

Cable News Network

CTIT

Centre for Telematics and Information Technology

DAT

Digital Audio Tape

DC

Dublin Core

DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

DIMTI

Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative

DLIB

Digital Library

DLIT

Digital Library and Information Technologies

DLP

Digital Library Program

DLPS

Digital Library Production Service

DLXS

Digital Library eXtension Service

dpi

Dots per inch

DTD

Document-Type Definition

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc

EAD

Encoded Archival Description

EAF

Early American Fiction

FTE

Full Time Equivalent

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G&M

Geography and Map (Division, Library of Congress)

GDZ

Göttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GIS

Geographical Information Systems

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSU

Genealogical Society of Utah

HATII

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute

HLF

Heritage Lottery Fund

HP

Hewlett-Packard

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

IAIA

Integrated Arts Information Access project

IATH

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

IBM

International Business Machines

IMLS

Institute of Museum and Library Studies

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

ITC

Information Technology and Communication

ITS

Information Technology Service

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

LAN

Local Area Network

LC

Library of Congress

LCSH

Library of Congress Subject Headings

LDI

Library Digital Initiative

LV

Library of Virginia

LZW

Lempel Ziv Welch

MAC

Apple MacIntosh Computer

MARC

Machine Readable Catalogue

MESL

Museum Educational Site Licensing

MIA

Minneapolis institute of Art

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MLS

Masters Library Science

MOA

Making of America

MOAC

Museums and the Online Archive of California

MOV/AVI

QuickTime Movie File Format

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

MrSID

TIFF file viewer

MS

Microsoft

NDLP

National Digital Library Program

NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities

NMR

National Monuments Record (NMR

NRK

National Broadcasting Corporation (Norway)

NT

New Technology (Microsoft Operating System)

NTSC

National Television System Committee

NYPL

New York Public Library

OAC

Online Archive of California

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

OPAC

Online Public Access Catalogue

P&P

Prints and Photographs (Division, Library of Congress)

PAL

Phase Alternation Line

PC

Personal Computer

PDF

Portable Document Format

PEAK

Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge

PM

Project Management

PT

Part Time

QC

Quality Control

QT

QuickTime

Ra

Real Audio/Video

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RGB

Red Green Blue

RSAMD

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

RTF

Rich Text Format

SCRAN

Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SIBL

Science, Business & Industry Library (NYPL)

SLR

Single Lens Reflex

STG

Scholarly Technology Group

TEI

Text Encoding Initiative

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TLG

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

TML

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum

TOC

Table of Contents

UK

United Kingdom

ULAN

Union List of Artists Names

UMICH

University of Michigan

UNESCO

United Nations Education Social Commission

US

United States

USD

United States Dollars

USMARC

United States Machine Readable Catalog

UV

Ultra Violet

UVA

Virginia University

VRA

Visual Resources Association

VHF

Visual History Foundation

VIA

Visual Information Access

VSL

Virginia State Library

VTLS

Virtual Library System

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium

WAC

Walker Art Center

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAV

Wave format

XML

Extensible Markup Language

 




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