 | AAA: Association of Authors
Agents (U.K.) |
| AAR: Association of
Authors Representatives (U.S.) |
| AA: author alteration |
| A/W: abbreviation for artwork |
| AAAF: Anglo-American Authority File |
| AACR2: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition |
| AAC: Open standard for formatting music; one of many layers within
MPG4 |
| ALCS: Authors Licensing and Collecting Society |
| ATRAC 3: Sony's proprietary format for digital music downloads |
| ARLIS: UK & Ireland Art Libraries
Society |
| BDS: Bibliographic Data Services Ltd |
| BIC: Book Industry Communication |
| BLNAL: British Library Name Authority List |
| BNBRF: British National Bibliography Research Fund
CAE number Compositeur-Auteur-Editeur number |
| BOMC: Book of The Month Club (US) |
| CIP: Cataloguing-In-Publishing, the procedure by which catalogue records
for new books are incorporated into the British National Bibliography before
publication |
| CIS: Common Information System |
| CISAC: International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers |
| CLA: Copyright Licensing Agency |
| CMYK: cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black) |
| CRC: camera ready copy |
| DOI: digital object identifier |
| DPI: dots per square inch |
| DRM: Digital Rights Management to prevent unauthorised distribution |
| EAN: Formerly the European Article Numbering Association, now renamed EAN
International |
| EDI: Electronic Data Interchange, the exchange of trading messages in a
standard format between computer systems |
| IFLA: International Federation of
Library Associations |
| indecs: INteroperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems |
| ISADN: International Standard Authority Data Number |
| ISBN: International Standard Book Number |
| ISTC; International Standard Text Code |
| IPD: International Performers Database |
| IPDA: International Performers Database Association |
| IPI: Interested Party Information (system) |
| IPN: International Performer’s Number |
| IMAP, Internet Message Access Protocol, a newer email protocol that
can be used instead of POP if the server permits it |
| Impression is used to refer to a page visited on a website, often
in the context of advertising. |
| IIS, Internet Info Server, is the part of the Internet definition
that allows FTP and ASP to work. |
| iPod, Apple Computer's portable digital player for their
proprietary AAC and MP3 files. |
| IRC, Internet Relay Chat, is like simultaneous email as the user types their reply immediately. |
| ISP, Internet Service Provider, is a company that provides access to the Internet and email for a fee. |
| ISADN: International Standard Authority Data Number |
| ISIL: International Standard Identifier for Libraries |
| ISO: International Standards Organisation |
| JPEG, Joint
Photographic Experts Group, pronounced 'jay-peg', which is a close relative of
the MPEG format used in DVDs. Most images on the web are in jpeg
format. An updated version, jpg2, is now available. |
| JSP are Java Server Pages. Java is a language developed by Sun and
now supported by most platforms via what is called a 'virtual machine'. |
| LASER: London And South Eastern Region library inter-lending |
| LMP: Literary Marketplace - Annual guide to who's who in the book
trade |
| LC: Library of Congress |
| MP3 : Digital music file format that takes up much less storage
space |
| MPG4: Multi-layered format for audio and/or video, which is an open
standard i.e. agreed by all major computer and software companies and none of
them own it. Apple iTunes uses a variety of MPG4 (AAC). |
| MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloguing |
| NACO: US Name Authorities Co-operative |
| NBA: The National Bibliographic Agency |
| NBS: National Bibliographic Service (UK) |
| NYT: New York Times |
| OCR: Optical Character Recognition |
| PIE (Persistent Identification Element) a technology that
uses Macromedia's Flash MX to track you without using cookies. |
| PCI slot is a high performance Peripheral Component Interconnect. |
| PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, is a consortium of computer manufacturers
who devised the three standards for the credit card-size adapter cards used in many notebook computers. |
| PDA: Personal Digital Assistant, or handheld device with computing power. |
| PDF: Portable Document Format a popular document viewing format
offering a free reader - owned by the company Adobe. |
| P2P: Peer to peer, a transport technology or another way of
transferring information from one computer to another. |
| PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. |
| PLR: Public Lending Right |
| PLS: Publishers Licensing Society |
| PN: Publishing News the British publishing trade weekly |
| POP 1)Post Office Protocol, used to retrieve
e-mail from a mail server. Version one in the mid-80's was called POP2,
uses SMTP to send messages. POP3, works with or without SMTP. 2)
Short for Point of Presence, a phone number
provided by an ISP so that users can access their mail and the internet. |
| PHP is a scripting language. |
| PIM, Personal Information Manager. Often found on PDAs and mobile phones. |
| ping is a tool used to test if host can be reached on the IP
network. Ping sends “echo request” packets to the target. By timing the
interval and response rate, ping estimates the round-trip time and reliability
between the hosts. |
| RSS: Really Simple Syndication |
| SaaS Software as a Service |
| SAN:
US and UK book trade Standard Address Number |
| SEO: Search Engine Optimisations |
| SMS: Small message service better known as texting and used by
mobile phones |
| SQL: Structured Query Language, developed by IBM for unskilled
users to perform database queries. Now supported by all relational databases |
| SSL is the 'secure socket layer' through which encrypted traffic
passes to keep it secure |
| TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is the
communications protocol used by UNIX systems and the Internet |
| SCAPR: Societies’ Council for the Administration of Performers’ Rights |
| SCORM: Sharable content object reference model |
| STM or SMT: Scientific, Technical and Medical publishing |
| SUISA: The copyright
licensing and royalty collection society in Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
| TAC: Total Area Coverage |
| TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a good format for saving all the
details and is the standard in the publishing business where Mac computers
dominate the desktop |
| UBCIM: Universal Bibliographic Control and MARC programme (of IFLA) |
| USB is Universal Serial Bus, used in modern (2000 onwards) PCs for adding peripherals and offers 'Plug & Play'. |
| UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) is more often
knows as spam. |
| UGC: User-Generated Content |
| URL: Universal Resource Locator, is the official name for the web
page address normally starting http:// |
| VAR, Value Added Reseller, is a company which resells hardware with some added software or function. |
| VBS: Visual Basic Script, is the latest incarnation of one of the first user-friendly
languages, BASIC. Can now be embedded in almost everything. |
| USNAF: United States National Authority File |
|
WMA:
Windows Media format for digital media |
| WWW: World Wide Web, is the set of protocols that allows pages to
be shared over the Internet. |
| WYSIWYG: 'What You See Is What You Get', implies that what is on the screen is what will be printed out. This might not sound impressive but you should have seen the early software! |
| XML: Extensible Mark-up Language, allows data to be displayed on different
platform (not just computer screens). |
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