Dublin Core Acronyms

Acronyms

There is a plethora of Acronyms being thrown out at people searching the Intenet or just reading an everyday magazine. The meanings of many of these are stumbled upon in our readings, but too many leave the average Joe guessing. It was my attempt to at least list the ones that are common with Dublin Core and leave it up to the reader to go and "discover" further information about them. I have, although, occasionally included a brief clue as to what it is.

AACR2 - Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition (the library catalogers bible)
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
DC or DCES - Dublin Metadata Core Element Set
DLO - Document-Like Object
DTD - Document Type Definition
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format (a file extension for an image)
HTML - HyperText Markup Language (computer language designed for electronic documents)
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IMT - Internet Media Types (e.g. html, gifs and jpegs, etc.)
ISO - International Standards Organization
JPEG (JPG) - Joint Photographic Experts Group (Another file extension for an image)
MIME - Multipart Independent Mail Extensions (scheme used to transfer data [images, text, etc] over the Internet)
PICS - Platform for Internet Content Selection (W3C's standard for describing/rating (smut, etc.) Internet documents)
PNG - Portable Network Graphics (image format that also allows text storage)
RDF - Resource Description Framework
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language (defines markup languages, e.g. HTML)
TIFF - Tagged Image Format File
URL - Uniform (or, Universal) Resource Locators
URN - Uniform Resource Name
W3C - World-Wide-Web Consortium
XML - Extensible Markup Language

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