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A

ANSI/NISO: American National Standards Institute/National Information Standards Organization

API: Application Program Interface

ASDI: Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure

ASP: Active Server Pages

C

CCFM: Canadian Council of Forest Ministers

CEOS: Committee on Earth Observation Systems (NASA)

CFS: Canadian Forest Service

CGDI: Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure

CGI: Common Gateway Interface

CGKN: Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network

CGNDB: Canadian Geographic Names Database

CGNS: Canadian Geographic Name Service

CIP: Catalogue Interoperable Protocol

COM: Common Object Model (Microsoft)

CORBA®: Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPU: Central Processing Unit

CSDGM: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC)

CSS: Cascading Style Sheets

CWC2: CGDI Web Map Service Client Component

E

EbXML: Electronic Business using Extensible Markup Language

EMAN: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Network

EOS: Earth Observation System

EOSDS: Earth Observation System Distribution Station

ESQL: Eiffel SQL Library

ESS: Earth Sciences Sector

F

FGDC: Federal Geographic Data Committee

FSA: Forward Sorting Area (postal code)

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G

GCMD: Global Change Master Directory (NASA)

GIF: Graphics Interface Format

GII: (European) Geographic Information Infrastructure

GILS: Global Information Location Service

GIS: Geographic Information System

GML: Geography Markup Language

GOFC: Global Observation of Forest Cover

GSDI: Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

H

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I

IDN: International Directory Network

IIOP: Inter-Orb Protocol

IMS: Information Management System

IP: Internet Protocol

ISO: International Organization for Standardization

IT: Information Technology

L

LAN: Local Area Network

LIO: Land Information Ontario

M

M3Cat: Multistandard, Multilingual Metadata Cataloguing Tool

N

NaLIS: National Infrastructure for Land Information System (Malaysia)

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure

NFD: National Forestry Database

NFDP: National Forestry Database Program

NFIS: National Forestry Information System

NGDF: National Geospatial Data Framework (U.K.)

NGSC: National Geological Surveys Committee

NRCan: Natural Resources Canada

NSDI: National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (U.S.)

NSIF: National Spatial Information Framework (South Africa)

NTS: National Topographic System

O

ODBC: Open Database Connectivity

OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGD: Other Government Departments

OLE: Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft)

R

RDBMS: Relational Database Management Software

RPN: Reverse Polish Notation

RUC: Reusable Component

S

SDE: Spatial Database Engine

SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructure

SLD: Styled Layer Descriptor

SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language

SNB’s RPIIS: Service New Brunswick’s Real Property Information Internet Service

SNIG: National Spatial Data Infrastructure (Portugal)

SNSMR: Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations

SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol

SQL: Structured Query Language

SQLNet: Structured Query Language Network

SRS: Spatial Reference System

SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics

T

TAP: Technology Advisory Committee (GeoConnections)

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

U

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

V

VBScript: Visual Basic Script

W

WCS: Web Coverage Service

WFS: Web Feature Service

WMS: Web Map Service, Web Map Server

WSDL: Web Services Description Language

W3C: World Wide Consortium

X

XML: Extensible Markup Language

XSD: XML Schema Definition Language

XML: Extensible Markup Language

XSD: XML Schema Definition Language