Acronym Glossary
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
"A" Acronyms
- ACCER - Alaska Climate Change Executive Roundtable
- ACDD - Attribute Convention for Data Discovery
- ADIwg - Alaska Data Integration Working Group
- AOOS - Alaska Ocean Observing System
- ARMAP - Arctic Research Mapping Application
"C" Acronyms
- CSDGM - Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- CSW – Catalog Services for the Web
"D" Acronyms
- DCAT - Data Catalog Vocabulary
- Dcite - DataCite 3.1
- DCMI - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
- DIF - Directory Interchange Format
- Dryad
"E" Acronyms
- ECHO - EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS) CLEARINGHOUSE
- ECS - EOSDIS Core System
- EOS - Earth Observing System
- EOSDIS - Earth Observing Science Data and Information System
- ESDIS - Earth Science Data and Information System
- EML - Ecological Metadata Language
"F" Acronyms
- FGDC - The Federal Geographic Data Committee
"G" Acronyms
- GCMD - Global Change Master Directory
"H" Acronyms
- HCLS - Health Care and Life Sciences
- HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
- HDF EOS5 - Hierarchical Data Format Earth Observing System 5
"I" Acronyms
- IDN - International Directory Network
- ISO – International Organization of Standardization
- LTER - Long term Ecological Research Network
"N" Acronyms
- NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- netCDF - Network Common Data Format
- NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPRB - North Pacific Research Board
- NSF - National Science Foundation
- NSSI - North Slope Science Initiative Oversight
"O" Acronyms
- OGC - Open Geospatial Consortium
- OMB - Office of Management and Budget
- OMG - Object Management Group
- OPeNDAP - Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
"R" Acronyms
- RDF - Resource Description Framework
"S" Acronyms
- SAM - Science and Metadata Community
- SERF - Service Entry Resource Format
- SOS - Sensor Observation Service
"T" Acronyms
- THREDDS - Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services
"U" Acronyms
- UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- UMM – Unified Metadata Model
- UML - Unified Modeling Language
- USGS - United States Geological Survey
"W" Acronyms
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- WCS – Web Coverage Service
- WFS - Web Feature Service
- WMS - Web Mapping Service
- WSDL - Web Service Description Language
"X" Acronyms
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
