Acronyms

ALTO - Analysed Layout and Text Object

API - Application Program Interface

BL - British Library

CC - Creative Commons open licences CIDOC - Conceptual Reference Model (CRM)

CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, (Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)

CSV - Comma Separated Values

D.C. - District of Columbia

DH - Digital Humanities

DK - Det Kongelige Bibliotek, (The Royal Danish Library)

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

DX Lab - The State Library of NSW experimental Innovation Lab

ETL - Extract, Transform, Load - procedure of copying data from one or more sources into a destination system

EU - European Union

FAIR - Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability

FRBR - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

FTE - Full Time Equivalent Staff

GDPR - General Data and Protection Regulations (EU)

GhentCDH - Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

GLAM - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

hOCR - Hypertext Optical Character Recognition

HTR - Handwritten Text Recognition

IPR - Intellectual Property issues

ISO - International Organisation for Standardisation

IT - Information Technology

JPEG 2000 - Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSON - JavaScript Object Notation

KB - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, (National Library of the Netherlands)

LC - Library of Congress

MARC - Machine-Readable Cataloguing

MARC formats - Standards for machine-readable representation and communication of bibliographic and related information

METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

MPEG 21 - Moving Picture Experts Group 21

NL - Netherlands

NLP - Natural Language Processing

NSW - New South Wales

NYPL - New York Public Library

OCR - Optical Character Recognition

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy

Q&A - Questions and Answers

R&D - Research and Development

RDA - Resource Description and Access

RDF - Resource Description Framework

SA - South Australia

TEI - Text Encoding Initiative

TIFF - Tagged Image File Format

UCL - University College London

UK - United Kingdom

VR - Virtual Reality

XML - eXtensible Markup Language