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Acronym glossary (J - O)

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J

J2EE
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/

JASIST
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/

JaSSI
Java Server Side Interpreter

JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

K

KM
knowledge management

KO
knowledge organization

KOR
Knowledge Organization Research

L

LAMA
Library Administration and Management Association
http://www.ala.org/lama/

LC
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

LCC
Library of Congress Classification

LCCN
Library of Congress Control Number

LCSH
Library of Congress Subject Headings

LIS
Library and Information Science

LISRGP
Library and Information Science Research Grant Program
http://www.oclc.org/research/grants/

LIBER
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
http://www.kb.dk/liber/

LITA
Library and Information Technology Association
http://www.lita.org/

LOM
Learning Object Metadata

M

MAES
Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation Section (ALA / LAMA)
http://www.ala.org/ala/lama/lamacommunity/lamacommittees/measurement/measurement.htm

MARC
Machine-Readable Cataloging format
http://www.loc.gov/marc/

MC-DLRIG
Members Council Digital Libraries Research Interest Group
http://www.oclc.org/research/memberscouncil/

METS
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.mit.edu

MLC
Michigan Library Consortium
http://www.mlcnet.org/

MLNC
Missouri Library Network Corporation
http://www.mlnc.org/

N

NACO
Name Authority Cooperative Program
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/

NASIG
North American Serials Interest Group
http://www.nasig.org/

NCHE
National Commission for Higher Education

NCLIS
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
http://www.nclis.gov/

NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

NDLF
National Digital Library Federation
http://www.diglib.org/

NDLTD
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/

NEBASE
Nebraska Library Commission
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/netserv/nebase/nebserv.html

NEDLIB
Networked European Deposit Library
http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/

NFAIS
National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
http://www.nfais.org/

NISO
National Information Standards Organization
http://www.niso.org/

NKOS
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

NLA
National Library of Australia

NLM
National Library of Medicine

NLP
Natural Language Processing

NoWAL
The North West (UK) Academic Libraries
http://www.nowal.ac.uk/

NSDL
National Science Digital Library
http://www.nsdl.org/

O

OAI
Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/

OAI-PMH
Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

OAIS
Open Archival Information System

ONIX
Online Information eXchange

OPAC
Online Public Access Catalog

OR
Office of Research

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