Glossary of Ever-Expanding Acronyms
4D 4th Dimension (UCSC VR CMS) http://slides-www.ucsc.edu/SlideCat.html ALA American Library Association http://www.ala.org/
Almagest open source software for image
presentation http://www.princeton.edu/~almagest/opensource/ AMICO Art Museum Image Consortium
(early image database of licensed museum images)
http://www.amico.org/ AP Associated Press photo archive
(AccuNet) http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/ ARLIS/NA Art Libraries Society of North
America http://www.arlisna.org/
ARS Artists Rights Society http://www.arsny.com/ ARTstor digital library of art images
funded by Mellon http://www.artstor.org/info/ AVRL Architecture Visual Resources
Library at UCB http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARCH/ Bookers UC Art Librarians Group
CARIDAD Chicano Art Resources
Information Development and Dissemination (UCSB)
http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/digitalArchives.html CCO Cataloguing Cultural Materials
(evolving VRA guide to cataloguing images)
CBIR content-based image retrieval (as opposed to text-based image retrieval
CDC Collection Development
Committee for UC http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/cdc/ CDWA Categories for the Description of
Works of Art (Getty standard on which CCO is based)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/ CEMA CA Ethnic and Multicultural
Archive (UCSB) http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html CIELO CSU Image Exchange Library
Online http://cielo.calstate.edu/
CMI Cultural Materials Initiative
(RLG) http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=217
CMS collection or course management system
CONTENTdm digital collection management
system (UW) http://contentdm.com/
DAA digital assets agreement DAMS digital asset management
system
DLSAG Digital Library Services Advisory Group for UC
DRV-TF SOPAG’s Digital Visual Resources Task Force http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/vrtf/ VRTF_Report_082603.doc
DC Dublin Core (metadata element set for the
online discovery of text and images) http://dublincore.org/ EAD Encoded Archival Description (international
standard to encode archival collections) http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=411 FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records (IFLA framework) http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm HEAL Health Education Assets Library http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp
HOPS Heads of Public Service for UC http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/ HOSC Heads of Special Collections for UC http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/cdc/hosc/ IAPIF Intercampus Academic Program Incentive Fund
(UCOP) http://www.ucop.edu/acadinit/iapif/iapif.html
IFLA International Federation of Library Assoctaions
and Institutions http://www.ifla.org/
Inscribe Luna Imaging’s image collection building tool http://www.lunaimaging.com/insight/softwaresuite.html Insight Luna Imaging’s presentation software http://www.lunaimaging.com/insight/index.html
ISRAC UC Image Services Advisory & Rollout Committee (HOPS)
JPEG 2000 Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000
(new standard format for digital images) http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/index.html JSCSC Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections
LACASIS LA Chapter of American Society for Information
Science http://public.csusm.edu/lacasis/
LionShare P2P project to facilitate file sharing (PSU) http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main/ LMS learning management system
LTAG Library Technology Advisory Group for UC http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ltag/ LUCI Library of UC Images
(Sliders union catalog of digital images) http://vrc.ucr.edu/luci/index.html MDID Madison Digital Image Database
(open source image presentation software) http://mdid.org/ METS Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard
(wrapper around data describing digital object) http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ MIP Museum Informatics Project (supports UCB VR
collection databases, LUCI & others) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/
MOAC Museums and the Online Archive of California http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/ MrSID Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
(powerful wavelet-based image compressor, viewer, and file format)
NALSS North American Lantern Slide Survey http://www.arlisna.org/nalss/ OAC Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
OAI Open Archives Initiative (develops & promotes
interoperability standards for sharing content) http://www.openarchives.org/ OIV Offline Image Viewer in ARTstor (for
internet-independent classroom presentations & creating presentations of personal/institutional images with or without ARTstor images)
http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/enduser.jsp
OSIDS Open Source Interface Definitions (MS?) PMH Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(application-independent interoperability framework) http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html PPT PowerPoint file extension
RLG Research Libraries Group http://www.rlg.org/
RLG DMG RLG’s Descriptive Metadata Guidelines http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=214 Sakai developing open source collection & course
management system http://www.sakaiproject.org/cms/
SEI Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (ARLIS & VRA sponsored)
http://www.vraweb.org/2005sei/ SLASIAC Systemwide Library Planning & Scholarly
Information Advisory Committee for UC http://www.slp.ucop.edu/consultation/slasiac/ Sliders UC Visual Resources Group
SOPAG UC Libraries’ Systemwide Operations Planning &
Advisory Group http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ SPIRO Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online
TIFF Tagged Image File Format (popular file format for high resolution images)
TLtC Teaching, Learning, & technology Center
(UC virtual center to support teaching w/tech) http://www.uctltc.org/ UCAI Union Catalog of Art Images (prototype union
image database w/focus on metadata) http://gort.ucsd.edu/ucai/ UCIRA UC Institute for Research in the Arts (supports
imaginative, collaborative UC projects) http://ucira.arts.ucla.edu/who.htm UCOP University of California Office of the President http://www.ucop.edu/
VARGA MS?
VIUS Visual Image User Study (extensive image
service assessment project at Penn State U) http://www.libraries.psu.edu/vius/ VPN Virtual Private Network (best way to get to UC
Image Service from home) http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/how/connect.html#vpn VRA Visual Resources Association (image
manage-ment professionals’ primary organization) http://www.vraweb.org/
VRA Core standard element set to describe images http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm VRC Visual Resources Collection
VRD Visual Resources Division of ARLIS/NA http://www.chatham.edu/users/staff/dnolting/ VRTF common acronym for SOPAG’s DVRTF above http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/vrtf/
VRTF_Report_082603.doc XML Extensible Markup Language (flexible text