Thursday, October 17, 2013

Abbreviations & Acronyms - 68

Abbreviations & Acronyms



A
ACM                           Association for Computing Machinery
AJAX                          Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
API                              Application Programming Interface
ARIST                         Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
AHRC                         Arts and Humanities Research Council
APA                            American Psychological Association
B
BBC                            British Broadcasting Corporation
BNB                            British National Bibliography
BOPCRIS                    British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service




C
CIVR                           Conference on Video and Image Retrieval
CLEF                          Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
CPA                            Cost Per Action
CPC                             Cost Per Click
CPM                            Cost Per Mille or Critical Path Method
CSS                             Cascading Style Sheet
CTR                            Click-Through Rate
CD                               Compact Disc
CD-ROM                    Compact Disc – Read Only Memory



D


DAAT                         Document-At-A-Time
DIRECT                      Distributed Information Retrieval Evaluation Campaign Tool
DL                               Digital Library or Deputy Librarian
DLMS                         Digital Library Management System
DLS                             Digital Library System
DM                              Data Mining
DNS                            Domain Name System
DOM                           Document Object Model
DSP                             Demand Side Platform
DAI                             Dissertation Abstracts International
DCC                            Digital Curation Centre
DDC                            Dewey Decimal Classification
DOAJ                          Directory of Open Access Journals
DOI                             Digital Object Identifiers
DPC                            Digital Preservation Coalition
DVD                            Digital Versatile Disc

E

EDL                            European Digital Library
ESRC                          Economic and Social Research Council
ETD                            Electronic Theses and Dissertations
EU                               European Union

F

G


GPS                             Global Positioning System
GSP                             Generalized Second Price


H
HARD                         High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents
HCI                             Human Computer Interaction
HMM                          Hidden Markov Model
HTML                         HyperText Markup Language
HTTP                          HyperText Transfer Protocol

I




IBM                             International Business Machines
IDF                              Inverse Document Frequency
IFLA                           International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
IIR                               Interactive Information Retrieval
INEX                           Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
IR                                Information Retrieval
IRIX                            Information Retrieval In conteXt
ISO                              International Organization for Standardization
ISP                              Internet Service Provider
ICT                              Information and communication technology
IE                                Information Environment (JISC)
IEEE                            Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ILL                              Interlibrary Loan
IP                                 Intellectual Property or Internet Protocol
ISBN                           International Standard Book Number
ISO                              International Organization for Standardization
ISSN                            International Standard Serial Number

J

JISC                            Joint Information Systems Committee

K


KD                              Knowledge Discovery
KDD                            Knowledge Discovery in Databases
L

LC                               Library of Congress
LCSH                          Library of Congress Subject Headings


LSA                             Latent Semantic Analysis
LSI                              Latent Semantic Indexing

M

MAP                           Mean Average Precision
MIDI                           Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MM                             MultiMedia
MPEG                         Moving Picture Experts Group
MSE                            Mean Squared Error
MeSH                          Medical Subject Headings

N


NIST                           National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLP                             Natural Language Processing
NDLTD                       Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations



O

OAI-PMH                   Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OCLC                          Online Computer Library Center
OPAC                          Online Public Access Catalogue
OWL                           Web Ontology Language
OAI                             Open Archives Initiative
OPAC                          Online Public Access Catalogue
OpenDOAR                Directory of Open Access Repositories


P

PMI                             Pointwise Mutual Information
PMML                        Predictive Model Markup Language
PPA                             Pay Per Action
PPC                             Pay Per Click
PRP                             Probability Ranking Principle


PC                               Personal Computer
PDF                             Portable Document Format
PhD                             Doctor of Philosophy
PLoS                           Public Library of Science
PRO                            Public Record Office

Q


QA                              Question Answering
QM                              Quantum Mechanics
QPS                             Queries Per Second


R

RDF                            Resource Description Framework
RF                               Relevance Feedback
ROI                             Return On Investment
ROAR                         Registry of Open Access Repositories

S

SEM                            Search Engine Marketer
SERP                           Search Engine Result Page
SIGIR                          Special Interest Group on IR
SPARC                        The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
SSO                             Single Sign On
SIGKDD                     Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
SQL                             Structured Query Language
SRU                            Search/Retrieve via URL
SVD                            Singular Value Decomposition
SVM                           Support Vector Machine


T

TCP/IP                        Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TED                            Transductive Experimental Design
TF                               Term Frequency
TREC                          Text Retrieval Conference
TRECVid                    TREC Video track

U

URI                             Uniform Resource Identifier
URL                            Uniform Resource Locator
V
VRE                            Virtual Research Environment
VCG                            Vickrey Clarke Groves

W

WAND                        Weighted AND
WWW                         World Wide Web
WoK                           Web of Knowledge (ISI Thomson)
WWW                         World Wide Web

X

XML                           eXtensible Markup Language

Y


YP                               Yellow Pages

Z
Z39.50                         Protocol 

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