- ebRIM
- Enterprise Business Registry Information Model..
- CSW
- Catalog Service for the Web. The OGC Catalog Service defines common interfaces
to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources.
- ISO
- International Standards Organisation is an international-standard-setting body
composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.
http://www.iso.org
- ISO TC211
- ISO/TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO,
tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information (such as
used by geographic information systems) and geomatics. It is responsible
for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical
Specifications numbered in the range starting at 19101.
- GeoNetwork
- GeoNetwork opensource is a standards based, Free and Open Source catalog
application to manage spatially referenced resources through the web.
http://geonetwork-opensource.org
- GeoServer
- GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to
share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data
from any major spatial data source using open standards.
- AGPL
The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works,
specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.
CKAN is released under the AGPL 3 license.
- GPL
The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.
GeoNetwork opensource is released under the GPL 2 license.
Tolomeo is released under the GPL 3 license.
- Creative Commons
- GeoNetwork documentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Find more information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language is a general-purpose specification for
creating custom markup languages.
- XSD
- XML Schema, published as a W3C recommendation in May 2001, is one of
several XML schema languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSD
- ebXML
- Enterprise Business XML.
- DAO
- Data Access Object.
- CRUD
- Create Read Update and Delete.
- DB (or DBMS)
- A database management system (DBMS) is computer software that
manages databases. DBMSes may use any of a variety of database models,
such as the network model or relational model. In large systems,
a DBMS allows users and other software to store and retrieve data
in a structured way.
- SOA
- Service Oriented Architecture provides methods for systems
development and integration where systems package functionality
as interoperable services. A SOA infrastructure allows different
applications to exchange data with one another.
- FGDC
- The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee
that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of
geospatial data on a national basis in the USA. See http://www.fgdc.gov
- JMS
- Java Messaging Service.
- TDD
- Test Driven Development.
- JIBX
- Binding XML to Java Code.
- HQL
- Hibernate Query Language.
- OO
- Object Oriented.
- EJB
- Enterprise Java Beans.
- SOAP
- Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for
exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web
Services in computer networks.
- OGC
- Open Geospatial Consortium. A standards organization for geospatial
information systems http://www.opengeospatial.org
- OSGeo
- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), is a non-profit
non-governmental organization whose mission is to support and
promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies
and data. http://www.osgeo.org
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is a specialised
agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat
hunger. http://www.fao.org
- WFP
- World Food Programme of the United Nations is the food aid branch
of the United Nations, and the world’s largest humanitarian
organization. http://www.wfp.org
- UNEP
- The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) coordinates United Nations
environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing
environmentally sound policies and encourages sustainable development
through sound environmental practices. http://www.unep.org
- OCHA
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
is designed to strengthen the UN’s response to complex emergencies
and natural disasters. http://ochaonline.un.org/
- URL
- A Uniform Resource Locator specifies where an identified resource
is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
- GAST
- GeoNetwork Administrator Survival Tool. A desktop application
that allows administrators of a GeoNetwork catalog to perform
simple database configuration using a GUI.
- WebDAV
- Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. WebDAV is a set of extensions to the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to edit and manage files
collaboratively on remote World Wide Web servers.
- OAI-PMH
- Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
It is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative.
It is used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions
of the records in an archive so that services can be built using
metadata from many archives.
- WMS
- Web Map Service is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced
map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using
data from a GIS database. The specification was developed and first
published by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999.
- WFS
- Web Feature Service provides an interface allowing requests for
geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls.
One can think of geographical features as the “source code” behind a map.
- WCS
- Web Coverage Service provides an interface allowing requests for
geographical coverages across the web using platform-independent calls.
The coverages are objects (or images) in a geographical area
- WPS
- Web Processing Service is designed to standardize the way that
GIS calculations are made available to the Internet. WPS can describe
any calculation (i.e. process) including all of its inputs and outputs,
and trigger its execution as a Web Service.
- UUID
- A Universally Unique Identifier
(UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction,
standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
- MAC address
- Media Access Control address (MAC address)
is a unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network
interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification,
and used in the Media Access Control protocol sublayer.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
on Wikipedia
- MEF
- Metadata Exchange Format. An export format developed by the GeoNetwork community.
More details can be found in this manual in Chapter Metadata Exchange Format.
- SKOS
- The Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems (SKOS) is an area of work developing
specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organisation systems
(KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
- Z39.50 protocol
- Z39.50 is a client-server protocol for searching and retrieving information
from remote computer databases. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50,
and ISO standard 23950. The standard’s maintenance agency is the Library of Congress.
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic
mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
- LDAP
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol
for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.
- Shibboleth
- The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package
for web single sign-on across or within organisational boundaries. It allows
sites to make informed authorisation decisions for individual access of
protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner.
- DC
- The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain
information resource description. It provides a simple and standardised
set of conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easier to find.
- ESA
- European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated
to the exploration of space. http://www.esa.int
- FOSS
- Free and Open Source Software, also F/OSS, FOSS, or FLOSS
(free/libre/open source software) is software which is liberally
licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve
its design through the availability of its source
code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS
- JDBC
- The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API is the industry standard for
database-independent connectivity between the Java programming language and a
wide range of databases – SQL databases and other tabular data sources, such
as spreadsheets or flat files. The JDBC API provides a call-level API for
SQL-based database access.
JDBC technology allows you to use the Java programming language to exploit
“Write Once, Run Anywhere” capabilities for applications that require access
to enterprise data. With a JDBC technology-enabled driver, you can connect
all corporate data even in a heterogeneous environment.
- JAI
- Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) is a Java platform extension API that provides a set of
object-oriented interfaces that support a simple, high-level programming model
which allows developers to create their own image manipulation routines without
the additional cost or licensing restrictions, associated with commercial image
processing software.
- Tolomeo
- Tolomeo is a RAD framework for cartographic applications.
It allows rapid implementation of applications for visualization, query and update of geographic data.
http://egov.formez.it/content/tolomeo
- tag
- CKAN tags are keywords used to categorize a given dataset, and which can be used to quickly filter
dataset by topic. More then one tag can be associated to a single dataset.