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Glossary

Term Definition
PID

Persistent Identifier

PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RDA
Research Data Alliance
REST

Representational State Transfer

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML

SCHAC
SChema Harmonisation Committee
SLCS
Short Lived Credential Service
SOA
Service-oriented architecture
 
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
SP
Service Provider. A Shibboleth term. Synonym for an AAI-enabled Resource, although used in a more technical sense.
SRB
Storage Resource Broker
SRU
Search/Retrieve via URL
SRW
Search/Retrieve Web Service
TACAR
Academic CA Repository
TBX
Termbase Exchange format
TCF
Text Corpus Format
This format is, among others, used by WebLicht.
See:
TCS
Certificate Service
TDS
Typological Database System
TEI
Text Encoding Initiative
TERENA
Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association
UDDI
Universal Description Discovery and Integration
UNICORE
UNiform Interface to COmputing REsources
URN
Uniform Resource Name
VLO
Virtual Language Observatory
WADL
Web Application Description Language
WDS
World Data System
WS-Security
Web Services Security
WSDL
Web Services Description Language
XCES
XML Corpus Encoding Standard
XML-RPC
XML Remote Procedure Call
EUDAT
European Data Infrastructure
NLP
Natural Language Processing
DSA
Data Seal of Approval
BoD

Board of Directors

GA

General Assembly

KSI

Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, part of the CLARIN infrastructure that takes care of sharing of knowledge and expertise, education, training and dissemination

META-SHARE

Network of repositories resulting from the META-NET Network of Excellence (http://www.meta-share.eu/)

NCF
National Coordinators Forum
RI

Research Infrastructure

SAB

Scientific Advisory Board

SCCTC

Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres

single sign-on

Access to multiple systems by logging in once

MT

Machine Translation

FCS
Federated Content Search
CTS
CoreTrustSeal, successor of the Data Seal of Approval
EOSC
European Open Science Cloud
GLAM
Galleries, Libaries, Archives, Museums