Abbreviation Description
ALTO Analysed Layout and Text Object
ANDP Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program
ANPlan The Australian Newspaper Plan
API Application Programme Interface
ARROW Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
BL British Library
CA Chronicling America
CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
CIP Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (European Commission)
CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CMDI Component MetaData Infrastructure
CCS Content Conversion Specialists
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
DIDL Digital Item Declaration Language
DNCJ Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism
DTD Document Type Definition
EDM Europeana Data Model
ENMAP Europeana Newspaper METS ALTO Profile
DDD Databank Digitale Dagbladen
GIFT Gale Interchange Format
GLAM Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
HNDM Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
ICC International Colour Consortium
ID Identifier
IE Intellectual Entity
IIIF International Image Interoperability Framework
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
ISO International Organisation for Standardisation
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
JSON-lD JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data
KB Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library of the Netherlands)
LOC Library of Congress
LZW Lempel–Ziv–Welch
MARC Machine-Readable Cataloguing
METS Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
MIX Metadata for Images in XML Schema
MODS Metadata Object Description Schema
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
NDNP National Digital Newspaper Program (America)
NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
NISO National Information Standards Organisation
NLA National Library of Australia
NLNZ National Library of New Zealand
NORDINFO Nordic Council of Scientific Information
NSLA National and State Libraries of Australasia
NTAS Northern Territory Archives Service
OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OLR Optical Layout Recognition
PANDORA Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia
PICA Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation
PP Papers Past
PPI Pixels Per Inch
PPN PICA Production Number
PURL Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
PREMIS Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
SBB Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library)
SRU Search/Retrieve via URL
SRGB Standard Red Green Blue
TDA Times Digital Archive
TEL The European Library
UID Unique Identifier
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
URL Uniform Resource Locator
XML Extensible Markup Language
Xpath XML Path Language
ZEFYS Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Newspaper Information System of the Berlin State Library)
ZDB Zeitschriften Datenbank (Magazines Database)
ZVDD Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drücke (Central Directory of Digitised Prints)