A|B|C|D|E|F|H|I|J|L|M|N|O|P|R|S|T|U|V

A

ACE

the Archaeology of Contemporary Europe project

ADS

Archaeology Data Service

AHeSC

Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre

AHDS

Arts and Humanities Data Service (closed March 2008)

AHRC

Arts and Humanities Research Council

ALGAO

Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers

ALSF

Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund

AML

Ancient Monuments Laboratory, at EH

AONB

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

ARENA

Archaeological Records of Europe Networked Access (Culture 2000 project)

ARGE

Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe.

ARIA

Association of Regional and Island Archaeologists

ARIADNE

Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking

ASP

Accessing Scotland’s Past

B

BA

British Academy

BIAB

British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography

BLRIC

British Library Research and Innovation Centre

BUBL

Bulletin Board to Libraries

C

CAA

Computer Applications in Archaeology conference

CARARE

Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana

CBA

Council for British Archaeology

CCTA

Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency

CEI

Committee on Electronic Information in the JISC

CEN/ISSS

Comite Europene de normalisation/Information Society Standardisation System

CHIRON

Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Orientated Network

CIDOC

International Committee for Documentation, at ICOM

CIE

Common Information Environment

CIMI

Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information

CMS

Collections Management System

CREE

Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment

CRL

Center for Research Libraries

CSA

Council for Scottish Archaeology

CTI

Computers in Teaching Initiative

CTICH

The CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History

D

DAPPER

Digital Archiving Pilot Project for Excavation Records

DANS

Data Archiving and Networked Services (Netherlands)

DARIAH

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts & Humanities (ESFRI roadmap project)

Data Collections

Data collections at the Archaeological Data Service

DCC

Digital Curation Centre

DCMS

Department for Culture Media and Sport

Discovery Metadata

Descriptive information about data that aids in data discovery

DoENI

Department of Environment for Northern Ireland

DOI

Digital Object Identifier

DPC

Digital Preservation Coalition

DPTP

Digital Preservation Training Programme

DSU

Data Services Unit

E

EARL

Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries

EFCHED

Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution

EH

English Heritage

ELib

Electronic Libraries Programme

ENDEX

the extended national index (NMR for Wales)

EPOCH

European Research Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage

EPSRC

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

ESRC

Economic and Social Research Council

F

FISH

Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (England)

H

HDS

History Data Service (an AHDS subject centre)

HBSMR

Historic Buildings Sites and Monuments Records System

HEA

Higher Education Academy

HEFC

Higher Education Funding Council

HEI

Higher Education Institution

HEIRNET

Historic Environment Information Resources Network

HER

Historic Environment Record

HERALD

Historic Environment Research Archives, Links and Data

HLF

Heritage Lottery Fund

I

IAPA

Irish Association of Professional Archaeologists

ICOM

International Council of Museums

IFA

Institute of Field Archaeologists

ILT

Institute for Learning and Teaching

Intute

JISC-funded Resource Discovery Network (formerly HUMBUL)

J

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee (for the UKHE sector)

L

LEAP

Making the LEAP: Linking Electronic Archives and Publications (ADS/IntArch project)

LTSN

Learning Teaching Support Network

LB

Listed Building

LBS

Listed Building System

LoCloud

Local Context in a Europeana Cloud

M

Metadata

Descriptive information about data.

MDA

Museums Documentation Association

MIDAS

Monuments Inventory Data Standard

MLA

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

MoLAS

Museum of London Archaeology Service

N

NARA

US National Archives and Records Agency

NARD

National Agency for Resource Discovery

NCA

National Council Archives

NERC

National Environment Research Council

NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)

NGDF

National Geospatial Data Framework

NMR

National Monuments Record of England (the public archive of English Heritage)

NMRS

National Monuments Record Scotland (the public archive of the RCAHMS)

NPO

National Preservation Office: part of the British Library

NPPG

National Planning Policy Guideline

NT

National Trust

O

OAI

Open Archives Initiative

OAIS

Open Archival Information System

OASIS

Online AccesS to the Index of Archaeological InterventionS

OAU

Oxford Archaeological Unit

OCLC

Online Computer Library Centre

P

PADS

Performing Arts Data Service (an AHDS subject centre)

PATOIS

Publications and Archives in Teaching: Online Information Sources

PPG

Planning Policy Guidance notes, PPG16 and PPG15

PUNS

Publication User Needs Survey (carried out by the CBA)

R

RCAHMS

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

RCAHMW

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

RCHME

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage)

RDNC

Resource Discovery Network Centre

RECAP

Rescue of Completed Archaeology Projects

ROADS

Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services

RSLP

Research Support Libraries Programme

RSM

Record of Scheduled Monuments

S

SAM

Scheduled Ancient Monument

SCAUM

Standing Conference on of Archaeological Unit Managers

SCRAN

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network

SLD

Service Level Definition

SM

Scheduled Monument

SMA

Society of Museum Archaeologists

SMR

Sites and Monuments Record

SMRO

Sites and Monuments Record Officer

SSSI

Sites of Special Scientific Interest

STAR

Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources

STELLAR

Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked data for Archaeological Resources

SWORD-ARM

Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit – Archaeological Research data Management

T

TLTP

Teaching Learning Technology Project

TRAC

Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist

TAG

Transatlantic Archaeological Gateway

U

UAD

Urban Archaeological Database

UKHE

United Kingdom higher education

UKOLN

UK Office for Library and Information Networking

V

VADS

Visual Arts Data Service (an AHDS subject centre)

VENUS

Virtual ExploratioN of Underwater Sites

VLE

Virtual Learning Environment

VRE

Virtual Research Environment