Data for Science and Society: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Scientific and Technical Data

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Appendix D | Data for Science and Society: The Second National Conference on Scientific and Technical Data | U.S. National Committee for CODATA | National Research Council

Appendix D

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AGA	American Gas Association
API	American Petroleum Institute
ARL	Association of Research Libraries
ARS	Agricultural Research Service
CCD	charge-coupled device
CENR	Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
CEOS	Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CIESIN	Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CINDAS	Center for Information and Numerical Data Synthesis and Analysis
CODATA	Committee on Data for Science and Technology
CSD	Community School District
DAAC	Distributed Active Archive Center
DEWS	District Eleven Weather Study
DISS	data and information systems and services
DMWG	Data Management Working Group
DOE	Department of Energy
DOQ	digital orthophoto quadrangles
EOS	Earth Observing System
EOSDIS	Earth Observing System Data and Information System
ENDF	Evaluated Nuclear Data File
ENSDF	Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
EROS	Earth Resources Observation System
ESIP	Earth Science Information Partners
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
FOIA	Freedom of Information Act
GAO	General Accounting Office
GCDIS	Global Change Data and Information System
GIS	geographic information system
GPO	Government Printing Office
GPRA	Government Performance and Results Act
GPS	Global Positioning System
GRIN	Germplasm Research Information Network
HR	House Resolution
HTML	hypertext markup language
IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency
ICSU	International Council for Science
IP	Internet protocol
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISO	International Standards Organization
JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LAN	local area network
MARC	machine readable catalog
MDI	Mutation Database Initiative
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MODIS	Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCDC	National Climatic Data Center
NECIS	National Environmental Change Information System
NGDC	National Geophysical Data Center
NIH	National Institutes of Health
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLM	National Library of Medicine
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC	National Research Council
NSA	Nuclear Science Abstracts
NSF	National Science Foundation
NTIS	National Technical Information Service
NWS	National Weather Service
NYMEX	New York Mercantile Exchange
OLEDB	object lining and embedding for databases
OLTP	on-line transaction processing
OMB	Office of Management and Budget
ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSTI	Office of Scientific and Technical Information
PI	principal investigator
R&D	research and development
S&T	scientific and technical
SeaWIFS	Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SGCR	Subcommittee on Global Change Research
SKICAT	Sky Image Cataloging and Analysis Tool
SNP	single nucleotide polymorphism
SQL	standard query language
USGS	United States Geological Survey
USNC	United States National Committee
WAN	wide area network
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
XML	extensible markup language