Related Acronyms

(See also ASF Terms)

API: Applications Programming Interface
ASF: Advanced Search Facility
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CNIDR: Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
GILS: Global (or Government) Information Locator Service
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISO 23950: currently identical to ANSI Z39.50 information search and retrieval standard
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
RDF: Resource Description Framework
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
URN: Uniform Resource Name
XML: Extensible Markup Language, a proposal by the World Wide Web Consortium
Z39.50: ANSI information search and retrieval standard, currently identical to ISO 23950