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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)
Email 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
PDF 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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