Acronyms and Proper names used at INSPIRE, explained
This is a not complete list of words used during CDS Meetings that a new-comer may want to understand:
- AFS: Distributed Filesystem used at CERN visible on any LXPlus node and by the INSPIRE servers.
- Ajax: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- Alice: The Alice experiment
- APPP: Author Publication Profile Page (e.g. http://inspirehep.net/author/J.R.Ellis.1/)
- arXiv: The main preprint server used by physicists, containing most of the documents that INSPIRE aggregates.
- ATLAS: the ATLAS Experiment
- BFE: BibFormat Element
- Budjet code: a metonimia for money reserve
- CDB: Language and repository currently used to maintain the profiles for INSPIRE clusters
- CDS: CERN Document Server
- CHEP: Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics conference
- CLI: Command Line Interface
- CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid (one of the experiments at CERN)
- CSC: CERN School of Computing
- CSS: Cascading Stylesheets
- DC: Dublin Core metadata format (a very simple and well known way to describe documents)
- DFS: Windows Distributed Filesystem used at CERN
- DG: Directeur Général (currently Rolf-Dieter Heuer
- EDH: Electronic Document Handling System where all the beurocracy is managed at CERN
- EDMS: CERN Engineering and Data Management Service (an other system like CERN Document Server but not based on Invenio)
- EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- ETHZ: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- FireRole: Firewall Like Role Definition language used within the WebAccess framework
- FFT: Fulltext File Transfer Invenio proprietary MARC tag used to upload files.
- Gray Book: lists of experiments, institutes and people participating in experiments at CERN
- HP: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, our new servers brand
- HR: Human Resources Department at CERN
- HW: Hardware
- IE: Microsoft Internet Explorer
- ILL: Interlibrary Loan
- INFN: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- INSPIRE: well...
- IP: Internet Protocol address
- IT: Information Technology Department at CERN
- LEP: Large Electron-Positron (Main project at CERN before LHC)
- LHC: Large Hadron Collider (Main project at CERN)
- LHCb:
- LHCC: ...
- MAC: Apple Macintosh
- MARC: ...
- MARS: ...
- MBI: ...
- MC: Marie Curie Fellows
- MediaArchive: ...
- MEIND: ...
- MG: Multimedia Gallery
- MMD: ...
- MUSE: ...
- MPI: ...
- NICE: Windows service at CERN
- NLM: ...
- NUR: ...
- OAI: Open Archive Initiative
- OMC: ...
- OPAC: ...
- Open/SCOAP3: ...
- OpenURL: standard for putting bibliographic metadata within URLs
- PB: ...
- PERi: ...
- PH: Physics Department
- PhotoLab: ...
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, the previous language used at the time of CDSWare
- PICT: ...
- Post-C5: ...
- PoW: Program of Work
- PR: ...
- Press Office: ...
- PROD: Alias for CDSWEB
- PUB: ...
- Publiline: ...
- Quattor: ...
- RBAC: Role Based Access Control, authorization architecture used within WebAccess
- regex: Regular Expression
- recID: record identificator within CDS Invenio
- RERO: Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale
- RM: Real Media file
- RSS: Really Simple Syndication
- SBI: ...
- SIPB: ...
- SL: ...
- SLAC: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- SLC(3,4,5): Scientific Linux CERN, CERN customized Linux Distribution
- SLS: Service Level Status web service
- SMAC: ...
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SPIRES: ...
- SPSC: ...
- SSO: Single Sign-On, central authentication system used at CERN
- SUN: Sun Microsystems, our old servers brand
- UAB: ...
- UDS: User and Document Services
- UW: ...
- WebDoc: ...
- WML: Website META Language
- XSS: Cross-site scripting