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AIMSS
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AIMSS (Automating Ingest of Metadata on Serials Subscriptions) is a PALS 2 project.
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COUNTER
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COUNTER is an international initiative to improve the reliability and comparability of usage statistics for online publications.
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Dictate
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Dictate (A Distributed Content Tagging Tool for EPrints) is a PALS 2 project.
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DOI
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Digital Object Identifier. The Digital Object Identifier is a means of persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property (a creation) on a digital network, irrespective of its current location. (Source: International DOI Foundation)
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Dublin
Core
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A metadata standard of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative comprising a set of 15 elements for describing publications.
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ERM
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Electronic resource management, a system that manages the acquisition, licensing, and use of electronic resources.
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EEVL
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EEVL was JISC’s portal for Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing and is now part of Intute.
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ICE
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ICE (Interoperation of COSE VLE with E-Resources) is a PALS 1 project.
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IE
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The JISC Information Environment.
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Interoperability
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The ability of different systems to work together and exchange data.
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JISC Model Licences
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The JISC Model Licences are template licences that JISC Collections uses to negotiate agreements between content providers and higher/further education institutions and specialist colleges in the UK. There are four JISC Model Licences – electronic journals (NESLi2), datasets, e-books, and moving images and sound.
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LOM
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Learning object metadata. IEEE LOM is an internationally-recognised open standard (published by IEEE) for the description of 'learning objects'. Relevant attributes of learning objects to be described include: type of object; author; owner; terms of distribution; format; and pedagogical attributes, such as teaching or interaction style. UK LOM Core is an application profile of IEEE LOM reflecting UK practice. (Source: CETIS) |
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MARC
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MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloguing) is a family of formats for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form and used in most library catalogues. MARC became USMARC in the 1980s and MARC 21 in the late 1990s.
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Metadata
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In simple terms, metadata is ‘data about data’. In the context of the PALS programmes, metadata is typically descriptive data about a publication that characterises its content and/or structure.
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Metadata+
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Metadata+ (Machine Services for Metadata Discovery and Aggregation) is a PALS 2 project.
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MODS
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MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) is an XML schema that carries selected data from existing MARC 21 records and enables the creation of original resource description records.
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OAI-PMH
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OAI-PMH is a lightweight protocol for exposing metadata so it can be harvested and used by search services.
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OLT
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ONIX for Licensing Terms, a new ONIX standard for expressing and communicating licence terms.
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ONIX
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A family of XML formats for communicating rich metadata about books, serials, and other published media, using common data elements. The ONIX standards include ONIX for Books, ONIX for Serials, and ONIX for Licensing Terms. See the EDItEUR site for details.
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ONIX-PL
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ONIX Publications Licence format, the format for expressing publisher-library licences within the ONIX for Licensing Terms standard. See ONIX for Licensing Terms for the most recent specification.
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OPAC
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Online public access catalogue, an online library catalogue.
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OpenURL
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OpenURL is an ‘actionable’ URL that transports resource metadata. OpenURL standard is designed to support access from an information resource (source) to library service components (targets). A link resolver parses the elements of an OpenURL and provides the appropriate services that have been identified by the library. (Source: Library of Congress glossary)
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PALS
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Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions, a collaboration between UK publishers (ALPSP and the Publishers Association) and higher/further education (JISC). The aim was to foster mutual understanding and develop joint solutions for electronic publishing problems. PALS formed the PALS Metadata and Interoperability working group to propose solutions for interoperability issues, and this led to the JISC-funded PALS programmes.
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PAMS
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Publication access management service, an agency offering customers basic and updated data on the publications to which they have access rights, whether these publications are hosted locally or remotely. (Source: AIMSS project)
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ROSA
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ROSA (Open Source Customisable RSS Aggregator and Filter) is a PALS 1 project.
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RSS
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A family of XML formats for distributing news and other frequently updated content on the web.
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SCORM
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The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) defines a Web-based learning Content Aggregation Model (CAM) and Run-Time Environment (RTE) for learning objects. In essence, the CAM defines how to aggregate, describe and sequence learning objects and the RTE defines the run-time communication and data to be tracked for learning objects. SCORM is a collection of specifications adapted from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive suite of e-learning capabilities that enable interoperability, accessibility and reuse of Web-based learning content. (Source: Advanced Distributed Learning)
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Social bookmarking
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Saving bookmarks to a to a public web site, tagging them with keywords, and sharing them with other users of the service.
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SOH
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ONIX for Serials SOH (Serials Online Holdings) is a format for communicating electronic serials holdings details from publication access management systems to user libraries. (Source: EDItEUR)
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SRN
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ONIX for Serials SRN (Serials Release Notification) is a format for communicating information about the publication or electronic availability of one or more serial releases. (Source: EDItEUR)
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SRW/U
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SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Common Query Language), a standard query syntax for representing queries. SRW (Search Retrieve Web Service) is a companion protocol to SRU. The Library of Congress serves as the maintenance agency for these standards. (Source: Library of Congress SRU site)
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STARGATE
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STARGATE (Static Repository Gateway and Toolkit) is a PALS 2 project.
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Static repository
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A model for using OAI-PMH that lowers the technical barrier at the data provider end. Instead of building an OAI-compliant repository, the data provider builds a ‘static repository’, effectively an XML file of the relevant metadata on a web-accessible server. A separate static repository gateway between the data provider and the service provider handles the technical aspects of making the metadata available for harvesting, i.e. the complexity is shifted away from the data provider.
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TIME
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TIME (Testbed for Interoperability of Metadata for E-Books) is a project commissioned by the JISC e-Books Working Group.
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TOCRoSS
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TOCRoSS (Table of Contents by Really Simple Syndication) is a PALS 2 project.
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Urchin
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Urchin is an open source tool for aggregating, filtering, and displaying information from RSS feeds. Urchin was developed by Nature Publishing Group in the PALS 1 ROSA project.
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VLE
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Virtual learning environment.
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