List of Acronyms
This list contains acronyms used throughout the DMH. The column "General/Specific" indicates if the acronyms are used in the general part of the DMH (from the template) or if they are organisation specific.
| Acronym | Meaning | General/specific |
|---|---|---|
| ACDD | Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery RD5 | |
| ADC | Arctic Data Centre (ADC) | |
| AeN | Arven etter Nansen (English: Nansen Legacy) | |
| BUFR | Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data. WMO standard format for binary data, particularly for non-gridded data (BUFR) | |
| CDM | Unidata Common Data Model (CDM) | |
| CF | Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions (CF) | |
| CMS | Content Management System | |
| CSW | Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) | |
| DAP | Data access protocol (DAP) | |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System (DBMS) | |
| DIANA | Digital Analysis tool for visualisation of geodata, open source from MET Norway (DIANA) | |
| diana-WMS | WMS implementation in DIANA | |
| DIAS | Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) | |
| DIF | Directory Interchange Format of GCMD (DIF) | |
| DLM | Data life cycle management (DLM) | |
| DM | Data Manager | |
| DMH | Data Management Handbook (this document) | |
| DMCG | Data Management Coordination Group | |
| DMP | Data Management Plan (DMP definition, easyDMP tool) | |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | |
| eduGAIN | The Global Academic Interfederation Service (eduGAIN) | |
| ENVRI | European Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) | |
| ENVRI FAIR | "Making the ENV RIs data services FAIR." A proposal to the EU’s Horizon 2020 call INFRAEOSC-04 | |
| EOSC | European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) | |
| ERDDAP | NOAA Environmental Research Division Data Access Protocol (ERDDAP) | |
| ESA | European Space Agency (ESA) | |
| ESGF | Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) | |
| EWC | European Weather Cloud () | |
| FAIR | Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability RD3 | |
| FEIDE | Identity Federation of the Norwegian National Research and Education Network (UNINETT) (FEIDE) | |
| FFI | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) | |
| FORCE11 | Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship (FORCE11) | |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) | |
| GCW | Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) | |
| GeoAccessNO | An NFR-funded infrastructure project, 2015- (GeoAccessNO) | |
| GIS | Geographic Information System | |
| GRIB | GRIdded Binary or General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form. WMO standard file format for gridded data (GRIB) | |
| HDF, HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) | |
| Hyrax | OPeNDAP 4 Data Server (Hyrax) | |
| IMR | Institute of Marine Research (IMR) | |
| INSPIRE | Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) | |
| ISO 19115 | ISO standard for geospatial metadata (ISO 19115-1:2014). | |
| IPY | International Polar Year (IPY) | |
| JRCC | Joint Rescue Coordination centre (Hovedredningssentralen) | |
| KDVH | KlimaDataVareHus | Specific to METNorway |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator (KPI) | |
| METCIM | MET Norway Crisis and Incident Management (METCIM) | Specific to METNorway |
| METSIS | MET Norway Scientific Information System | Specific to METNorway |
| MMD | Met.no Metadata Format MMD | |
| MOAI | Meta Open Archives Initiative server (MOAI) | |
| ncWMS | WMS implementation for NetCDF files (ncWMS) | |
| NERSC | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) | |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) | |
| NetCDF/CF | A common combination of NetCDF file format with CF-compliant attributes. | |
| NFR | The Research Council of Norway (NFR) | |
| NILU | Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) | |
| NIVA | Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) | |
| NMDC | Norwegian Marine Data Centre, NFR-supported infrastructure project 2013-2017 (NMDC) | |
| NorDataNet | Norwegian Scientific Data Network, an NFR-funded project 2015-2020 (NorDataNet) | |
| Norway Digital | Norwegian national spatial data infrastructure organisation (Norway Digital). Norwegian: Norge digitalt | |
| NORMAP | Norwegian Satellite Earth Observation Database for Marine and Polar Research, an NFR-funded project 2010-2016 (NORMAP) | |
| NRPA | Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) | |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure, USA (NSDI) | |
| NVE | Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) | |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction | |
| OAI-PMH | Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) | |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System (OAIS) | |
| OCEANOTRON | Web server dedicated to the dissemination of ocean in situ observation data collections (OCEANOTRON) | |
| OECD | The organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developement. OECD | |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) | |
| OGC O&M | OGC Observations and Measurements standard (OGC O&M) | |
| OLA | Operational-level Agreement (OLA) | |
| OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) - reference server implementation | |
| PID | Persistent Identifier (PID) | |
| RM-ODP | Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) | |
| PROV | A W3C Working Group on provenance and a Family of Documents (PROV) | |
| SAON | Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON/IASC) | |
| SDI | Spatial Data Infrastructure | |
| SDN | SeaDataNet, Pan-European infrastructure for ocean & marine data management | |
| SIOS | Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System | |
| SIOS-KC | SIOS Knowledge Centre, an NFR-supported project 2015-2018 (SIOS-KC) | |
| SKOS | Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) | |
| SLA | Service-level Agreement (SLA) | |
| SolR | Apache Enterprise search server with a REST-like API (SolR) | |
| StInfoSys | MET Norway’s Station Information System | Specific to METnorway |
| TDS | THREDDS Data Server (TDS) | |
| THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services | |
| UNSDI | United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) | |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | |
| WCS | OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) | |
| WFS | OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) | |
| WIGOS | WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) | |
| WIS | WMO Information System (WIS) | |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) | |
| WMS | OGC Web Map Service (WMS) | |
| WPS | OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) | |
| YOPP | Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP Data Portal) |