Networked Services Project
Request for Tender for NLA Networked
Services
Appendix E - Glossary
| ABN | Australian Bibliographic Network |
| ACLIS | Australian Council of Library and Information Services |
| ActiveX | A technology which allows users to download and run programs, particularly within a Web browser |
| ADABAS | Database management software developed by Software AG |
| Agency Tier | A tier in the proposed three tier architecture for an enhanced information server environment. The tier on which the information provider publishes information resources and services queries |
| AIX | IBM's Unix based operating system |
| ALIA | Australian Library and Information Association |
| AMI | Australasian Medical Index |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| APAIS | Australian Public Affairs Information Service |
| API | Application Program Interface. A set of procedures or routines which have been provided to enable applications to communicate with another application or with proprietary software |
| Archiving | Offline long term storage of data in machine readable format |
| ARIEL | A document transmission system produced by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISO 646). Also used in relation to terminals that use this standard |
| AUSMARC | AUStralian version of MARC (the international exchange format for MAchine-Readable Cataloguing data) |
| Austpac | Telstra's nationwide packet-switched network |
| Authority data | "Authorised" or standard forms of names, subjects, etc. with additional information about them, including alternative (or non-preferred) forms and related forms |
| Bibliographic data | Data describing documents |
| Boolean Search | A search in which two or more search terms are combined with the Boolean logical operators AND, OR and NOT |
| Broadcast Search | The capability to search two or more target servers with a single search transaction |
| CARL | CARL Corporation is company owned by Knight-Ridder which sells products and services to libraries and information providers |
| Cataloguing data | Data following generally accepted rules (such as AACR) for describing and facilitating access to documents in the collection of a library or group of libraries |
| CCCII | Coding system for CJK |
| CCITT | Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy |
| CD-R | Compact Disk - Recordable |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk - Read Only Memory |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System (an IBM data communications software system that controls online application programs and data, and interfaces with the operating system and telecommunications system) |
| CILLA | Co-ordinated InterLibrary Loan Administration Project |
| Citation data | Data describing the contents of documents eg articles within journals. Also called Indexing data |
| CJK | Chinese, Japanese, Korean scripts |
| Complex Boolean Search | A Boolean search that searches multiple fields and uses multiple operators |
| Complex Update Transaction | An update transaction in which more than or equal to five attributes are created or changed |
| Concurrent Users | Users who are connected or who have a session open on the system at the same time |
| Configuration | A combination of products and/or services specified in Chapter 3 of this RFT and for which the Library is seeking offers including detailed descriptions and full costing information |
| Conspectus | A standardised means of describing library
collections. A database of such collection descriptions |
| Contract | The document which constitutes or evidences or, as the case may be, all the documents which constitute or evidence the final concluded agreement between the Library and the Contractor concerning the execution of the work under the Contract |
| Contractor | The person who as party to the Contract is bound to execute the work under the Contract in accordance with the Contract and includes that person's heirs, executors, administrators and permitted assigns and in the case of a corporate body its successors and permitted assigns |
| Contributing Libraries | Libraries contributing data to the National Bibliographic Database |
| Controlled term | Authorised form of a term, heading or name, usually listed in a thesaurus |
| Copy cataloguing | Cataloguing of documents acquired by Customer Libraries using catalogue records supplied through the National Bibliographic Utility or other source of catalogue records |
| CORBA | Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| Customer Library | An organisation which uses the Networked Services of the National Library of Australia |
| DAT | Digital AudioTape |
| Database | A collection of interrelated data stored together |
| Data(base) Providers | Organisations creating databases which will be hosted by the Library's Networked Database System |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System. A collection of software programs designed to manage and maintain a collection of records by providing facilities for storing, organising and retrieving related information as required |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model |
| DHS | Database Hosting System |
| Digital Object | Data stored in digital form and accessed using electronic equipment. In this RFT refers to data stored as computer files and requiring applications software for viewing, listening etc eg images, sound, video, text files (eg SGML, Word), multimedia |
| DLL | DownLine Loading |
| Document | Information created or compiled by an organisation or an individual and packaged in any physical form |
| DOS | Digital Object Server |
| Downline Loading | Transfer of data from the Networked Services to an external system via a store and forward process |
| DTA | Designated Training Agent. A training organisation or trainer contracted on behalf of the Library |
| Duplicate (record) | A record that describes the same item as another record |
| Dynix | Proprietary integrated library management system used by the Library |
| EACC | RLIN East Asian Character Code Set |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange (ISO standard 9735) |
| Electronic mail. Software facility for the management of a messaging network across two or more terminals | |
| ELHILL | Database management and information retrieval software supported by the US National Library of Medicine |
| End User | A person who uses the Library's Networked Services or other information service at a computer work station |
| Ethernet | A LAN standard using baseband transmission mode at 10 megabits per second, coaxial cable, bus topology and CSMA/CD protocol |
| Extended Latin alphabet | Latin alphabet extended to cover various languages. See ISO 8859 |
| Facilities Management Organisation | An organisation which provides staff and/or equipment to manage, operate and maintain a computer system which is used to operate software that enables the Library to deliver services as agreed between the Library and the organisation |
| Fast Track | A level of service for interlibrary loan and document delivery requests which guarantees a turnaround time of 24 hours |
| FMIS | Financial Management Information System |
| FOI | Freedom of Information |
| Fractal compression | A method of compressing image files using mapping and mathematical equations |
| ftp | File Transfer Protocol. A file transfer application interface protocol in the TCP/IP environment |
| Full Service Libraries | Members of the current ABN service who contribute original cataloguing to the National Bibliographic Database and have access to the complete range of ABN products and services |
| GEDI | Group on Electronic Document Interchange |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GITC | Government Information Technology Conditions |
| Global change | Within a group of database records, the ability to edit or modify the same data in every record in one step |
| Gopher | Software used on the Internet for providing a distributed information delivery system around which a world/campus-wide information system can readily be constructed |
| Group 4 | A standard for facsimile transmission at 64 Kbps |
| Groupware | A suite of software that facilitates and coordinates team activities such as shared document creation and management in an office environment, a group workflow and task control mechanism, and a supporting messaging facility. |
| Holdings data | Descriptive information detailing the location of documents within collections, down to the volume level |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol |
| HTTP/Z39.50 Gateway | Services providing protocol conversion between the Z39.50 protocol and the World Wide Web protocols |
| ID | Identification or identifier |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| ILANET | A network run by the State Library of New South Wales, which is used by members for exchanging Interlibrary Loan (ILL) messages, among other things. |
| ILL | Interlibrary Loan. Formally established system for borrowing and lending and supply of photocopies between libraries |
| ILLDD | Interlibrary Loans and Document Delivery |
| ILMS | Integrated Library Management System |
| ILRS Directory | Interlibrary Resource Sharing Directory (produced by the Library) |
| Indexing data | Data describing the contents of documents eg articles within journals. Also called Citation data. |
| INNOPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue for the Innovative Interfaces Inc. ILMS |
| Internet | The network of interconnected networks worldwide, using the TCP/IP protocols |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISO | International Standards Organisation |
| ISO C | The ANSI/ISO standard for the C programming language and an accompanying standard C Library |
| ISO 646 | ISO standard for a 7 bit coded character set for information exchange (ASCII) |
| ISO 2709 | ISO standard for the exchange of machine-readable cataloguing data (MARC) |
| ISO 8859 | ISO standard for 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets for information processing. Multipart standard, each part specifying a Latin alphabet covering several Languages or a combination of Latin with Arabic, Greek, Hebrew or Cyrillic |
| ISO 8879 | ISO standard for a Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) |
| ISO 9945-3 | ISO standard for system administration |
| ISO 10160/10161 | An OSI application layer standard for Interlibrary Loan messaging |
| ISO 10646 | ISO standard for worldwide character encoding, incorporating Unicode |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number |
| ISSN MARC | MARC format used for sending cataloguing records for serials to the international ISSN agency's database |
| JAVA | A programming language which allows for secure execution of code across a network. Allows users to download and run programs within a Web browser |
| JEDDS | Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group (an ISO/IEC working group), which specified the standard for the compression of images with many grey levels or colours |
| JOIN | Taiwanese company that provides PC-based software for input and display of Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. |
| KORMARC | Korean MARC |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LC | [United States] Library of Congress |
| LCNA | Library of Congress Name Authorities |
| LCSH | Library of Congress Subject Headings |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| Legal Deposit | Under the Copyright Act, 1968 and various State legislation, a copy of any work published in Australia must be deposited with the National Library of Australia and the appropriate State Library |
| Library Information Server | The existing WWW Server at the National Library of Australia |
| Location data | Data describing the copy or copies of a document held in a particular collection |
| MASS | Multilingual Application Support Service (used as CJK character software) |
| MARC | A format for the interchange on magnetic tape of catalogue records which covers books and alternative media such as motion pictures and videos. This standard has variations, such as AUSMARC and USMARC |
| Mbps | Megabytes per second |
| MDS | Metadata Server |
| MEDLINE | Database of citations to articles in medical journals, produced by the US National Library of Medicine |
| MeSH | Medical Subject Headings, a thesaurus produced by the US National Library of Medicine |
| Metadata | Data which describes data |
| META tag | Tag used to specify information about a document in HTML |
| Middleware Tier | The middle tier in a three tier architecture which mediates between the other two tiers |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MVS/XA | Multiple Virtual Storage/eXtended Architecture. An IBM operating system for large 370 architecture mainframes |
| National Bibliographic Utility | Facility providing shared cataloguing, location and collection support facilities to Australian libraries |
| NBD Manager | Staff of the National Library of Australia responsible for maintaining the National Bibliographic Database |
| NBD | National Bibliographic Database |
| NBU | National Bibliographic Utility |
| NCJKS | National Chinese Japanese Korean Service |
| NDIS | National Document and Information Service. Former joint development project of the Library with the National Library of New Zealand |
| NetShow | A technology for providing live and on demand broadcasting of multimedia across networks |
| Networked Services | The services to be provided by the National Library of Australia by systems implemented as part of the Networked Services Project |
| Networked Services Project | The name applied by the Library to the potential range of products and/or services covered by this Request for Tender |
| NLA | National Library of Australia |
| NLM | (US) National Library of Medicine |
| NLNZ | National Library of New Zealand |
| NPC | NSP Processing Configuration. This incorporates all the processing capability under the management, directly or through outsourcing arrangements, of the Library |
| NS | Networked Services |
| NSP | Networked Services Project |
| NUC | National Union Catalogue. The subset of the NBD that consists of bibliographic records that have holdings attached. |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center (US) bibliographic network |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| Online Display Transaction | A transaction that operates on data at the user work station only, without making a server connection |
| OPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| Outsourced Service | A service for which the supplier will take full responsibility for delivery into the Australian marketplace under a service level agreement with the Library |
| Ozline | Australian online information service run by the National Library of Australia |
| Page Description Format | |
| Photo-CD | A process or standard for the storage of images (captured on film and digitised by a film scanner) on compact disk developed by Kodak |
| Pin Yin | A Chinese Romanisation standard |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| Postscript | Software facilitating the formatting of documents for printing |
| Premium Track | A level of service for interlibrary loan and document delivery requests which guarantees a turnaround time of 2 hours |
| Proximity searching | A search where the user specifies that two or more terms should occur next to or within a certain number of words of each other, or within the same sentence or paragraph |
| PURL | Persistent Uniform Resource Locator |
| QuickTime | Multimedia architecture used by software tool vendors and content creators to create and deliver synchronised graphics, sound, video, text and music. |
| RAAM | Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| Real Audio | A technology allowing live and on demand audio to be delivered and played in real time over the Internet |
| Requirement | An obligation for a Tenderer to respond as requested in this Request for Tender document |
| RFT | Request for Tender |
| RLIN | Research Libraries and Information Network (US bibliographic network) |
| Romanisation | The transliteration of non-Roman script representations into Romanised form |
| RTSP | Real Time Streaming Protocol |
| SDI | Selective Dissemination of Information. A service providing regular updates to a search. Also called 'current awareness'. |
| Service Manager | Member of staff of the National Library of Australia responsible for delivery of some area of the Library's Networked Services |
| SGML | Standard General Markup Language (ISO 8879) |
| SICI | Serial Item and Contribution Identifier, defined in ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56 |
| Simple Boolean Search | A Boolean search that uses the 'and' operator on keywords in a single search field |
| Simple Update Transaction | An update transaction in which less than five attributes are created or changed |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SNA | Systems Network Architecture (IBM's primary networking strategy made up of a variety of interacting hardware and software products) |
| SOFI | Supersearch /Ozline Friendly Interface |
| STAIRS | IBM's Storage and Information Retrieval System |
| STARTS | Stanford Protocol for Internet Search and Retrieval. |
| StreamWorks | A technology allowing live and on demand audio and video to be delivered over the Internet |
| Supersearch | ABN STAIRS-based alternative inquiry subsystem |
| Supply 1 | A service of the National Library of Australia which locates and obtains copies of documents from libraries and commercial document suppliers world wide |
| System Management | A suite of software facilities to manage NSP operation and workflow environment involving availability management, performance management and security management |
| Target Server | Server that accepts and processes a search initiated by a client |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
| Telstra | An Australian telecommunications company |
| Telnet | Teletype over Network. A virtual terminal protocol application used over a TCP/IP network |
| Tenderer | A person or organisation making an offer to provide goods and/or services in a response to this Request for Tender |
| Thesaurus | A controlled and dynamic vocabulary of semantically and generically related terms which covers a specific domain of knowledge. Relationships may be synonymous or hierarchical |
| The Library | The National Library of Australia |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TPC | Transaction processing Performance Council |
| Truncation (search) | Search which contains truncated words, word stems or 'wild card' characters |
| Turnkey | Describes a system (hardware and software), where the system is installed to the point of readiness for operation |
| Unicode | 16 bit international character set developed by Unicode Inc |
| UNIX | A multiuser, multitasking operating system written in C from AT&T that runs on a variety of computer systems from micro to mainframe |
| Upline Loading | A service for the transfer of data from user sites to the NBU |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator (World Wide Web) |
| User | An End User at a workstation. The capacity of a server may be described in terms of "Users", which shall mean the number of concurrent users connected to a server, or being served concurrently by it |
| User Tier | A tier in the proposed three tier architecture for an enhanced information server environment. The tier at which the End User enters searches and accesses information |
| USGPO | United States Government Printing Office |
| USMARC | United States MARC, the first version of MARC, developed by the Library of Congress and still a primary international exchange format for cataloguing data |
| UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair cabling |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| X.500 | CCITT standard for directory services (ISO 9594) |
| Wade-Giles | A Chinese Romanisation standard |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WLN | Western Library Network. Supplier of software for current ABN system |
| Workstation | A personal computer from which an End User communicates with a file server or a central computer |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| Xvision | A server for Microsoft Windows PCs that lets users display and run X Windows and text-based UNIX programs simultaneously with PC applications. |
| Z39.50 | ANSI/NISO standard for information retrieval service definition and protocol specification. It allows an application on one host to query and retrieve data from databases on another host |
| Z39.64 | ANSI standard, also known as EACC, East Asian Character Code Set |
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