Glossary

Use our glossary to find the definition of various acronyms and initials used in the CHIN and Professional Exchange sites.

A

AACRII: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition
AAT: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
AC: Artefacts Canada
ACS: Association for Canadian Studies
ACSQ: Association des cadres scolaires du Québec
ADD: Archives Descriptive Database
ADR: Alternative Dispute Resolution
ADSL: Asymmetrical digital subscriber line
AGB: Alexander Graham Bell (Museum)
AGO: Art Gallery of Ontario
AI: Artificial Intelligence
ALAI: L'Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
ALI-ABA: American Law Institute - American Bar Association
ALT: Alternative
ALV: File format
AMA: Alberta Museums Association
AMIA: Association for Moving Image Archivists
AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium
AMM: Association of Manitoba Museums
AMNH: American Museum of Natural History
AMOL: Australian Museums & Galleries Online
AMTA: Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
APTICA: Avancement pédagogique des technologies de l'information et de la communication en Atlantique
ARI: Agora Research Initiative
ARS: Artist Rights Society
ARTIFICE: Archeological Research Terminal for Independent Cultural Explorations
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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B

BCMA: British Columbia Museums Association
BGS: Bowne Global Solutions
bit: Binary digit
BMP: Bitmap
byte: Binary term

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C

CAIN: Canadian Archival Information Network
CAN: Collections Australia Network
CANCOPY: Canadian National Reprography Collective
CAPAC: Canadian Authors and Publishers Association of Canada
CARFAC: Canadian Artists Representation
CAROL: Canadian Artists Represented Online
CASC: Canadian Association of Science Centres
CCI: Canadian Conservation Institute
CCO: Canadian Culture Online
CD-ROM: Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CDWA: Categories for the Description of Works of Art
CHIN: Canadian Heritage Information Network
CHIO: Cultural Heritage Information Online
Chtml: Compact Hypertext Markup Language
CIDOC: The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums.
CIMI: Computer Interchange of Museum Information
CIN: Conservation Information Network
CIPA: Centre d'interprétation des pionniers de l'aviation
CIRA: Canadian Internet Registration Authority
CMA: Canadian Museums Association
CMAPEI: Community Museums Association of Prince Edward Island
CMC: Canadian Museum of Civilization
CMCC: Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
CMDR: Canadian Museums Digital Repository
CMRRA: Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency
CMSR: Collections Management Software Review
CMSS: Collections Management Software Selection
CNSLP: Canadian National Site Licensing Project
COM: Microsoft Component Object Model
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRC: Cultural Resources Center
CRIA: Canadian Recording Industry Association Inc.
CRMP: Cultural Resource Management Program
CSD: Circuit Switched Data
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CTHS: Cumberland Township Historical Society

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D

DAT: Digital Audio Tape
dCCF: digital Cultural Content Forum
DCH: Department of Canadian Heritage
DCS: Digital Conversion Services
DCT: Discrete Cosine Transformation
DDE: Dynamic Data Exchange
dHTML: Dynamic HTML
DL: Definition list
DLPS: Digital Library Production Service
DLSR: Digital single-lens reflex camera
DLT: Digital Linear Tape
DMC: Director's Management Committee
DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DPC: Digital Preservation Coalition
DPI: Dots per inch
DRMS: Digital rights management systems
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DVD: Digital Versatile Disc
DwC: Darwin Core

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E

EAMTA: European Association for Machine Translation
EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EM: Emphasis
EPOC: An operating system
EPS: Encapsulated PostScript file format
ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
ETCATA: Educational Technology Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association
EVA: European Visual Archive

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F

FAI: Fonds de l'autoroute de l'information
FLAR: Federal Law on Author's Rights
FNSH: Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage
FTP: File Transfer Protocol

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G

GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GB: Gigabyte
GIF: Graphic Image File format
GLP: General Public Licence
GOL: Government Online
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GPS: Global Positioning Satellites [Global Positioning System]
GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications

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H

HEDS: Higher Education Digitization Service
HILT: High-Level Thesaurus
HRSDC: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol

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I

ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICOM: International Council of Museums
ICT: Information and communications technologies
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ILL: Inter-library loan
IM/IT Solutions: Information Management/Information Technology Solutions
IMLS: Institute of Museum and Library Services
IP: Intellectual Property
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO: International Organization for Standardization
ISP: Internet service providers
ITCP: Information Technology and Creative Practices

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J

JCDL: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
JISC: Joint Information Systems Committee
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group

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K

KB: Kilobyte
Kbits/s (KBPS): Kilobits per second

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L

LAN: Local Area Network
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
LEAF: Linking and Exploring Authority Files

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M

M2A: MINISIS Management for Archives
M2L: MINISIS Management for Libraries
M3: MINISIS Management for Museums
MACM: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
MANL: Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
MAS: Museums Association of Saskatchewan
MB: Megabyte
Mbits/s (MBPS): Megabits per second
McMichael: McMichael Canadian Collection
MESL: Museum Educational Site Licensing
METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
MHz: Megahertz
MINISIS SMA: Standard MINISIS Application
MINT: MINISIS Integrator
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MLA: Museums Libraries and Archives Council
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
MoA: Making of America
MOV: Movie or video file format
MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group
MQ: Musée du Québec [Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec]
MT/CAT: Machine Translation/Computer-assisted translation
MT: Machine Translation
MW 2008: Museums and the Web 2008
MWI: MINISIS Web Interface

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N

NAIG: North American Indigenous Games
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDIIP: National Digital Information Infrastructure Program
NDL: National Digital Library
NEDLIB: Networked European Deposit Library
NINCH: National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
NIP: National Inventory Programme
NKOS: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
NMAI: National Museum of the American Indian
NRC: National Research Council Canada
NYPL: New York Public Library

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O

OAI: Open Archives Initiative
OCLC: Online Computer Library Centre
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
OCSB: Ottawa-Carleton School Board Conference
OL: Ordered list
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding
OMA: Ontario Museum Association
OMSI: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

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P

PADI: Preserving Access to Digital Information
PC: Personal Computer
PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCS: Personal Communications Service
PCT: Image file format
PCX: Image file format
PDA: Personal digital assistant
PDF: Portable Document Format
PHP: HTML-embedded scripting language
PNG: Portable Network Graphic
PNI: Picture Information Network
ppi: Pixels per inch
PREMIS: PREservation Implementation Strategies
PROCAN: Performing Rights Organization of Canada
PSD: File format
PTM: Public Technologies Multimedia
PURLs: Persistent URLs
PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Q

QC: Quality Control

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R

RAD: Rapid Application Development
RALI: Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique, Société des musées québécois
RAM: Random-access memory
RAW: Initial Image File
RBI: Research and Business Intelligence
RDBMS: Relational Database Management Software
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
RGB: Red, Green, Blue
RITS: Registration Information Tracking System
RLG: Research Libraries Group
ROI: Return on investment
ROM: Read-only memory
RSS: Really Simple Syndication