# /research/reference/acronyms/acronyms_pz.htm

originally: http://www.oclc.org/research/reference/acronyms/acronyms_pz.htm

# Acronym glossary (P - Z)

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## P

PADI
Preserving Access to Digital Information
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

PCC
Program for Cooperative Cataloging
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/

PDF
Portable Document Format
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PDF.html

PICS
Platform for Internet Content Selection
http://www.w3.org/PICS/

POI
Persistent Object Identifiers

PMWG
Preservation Metadata Working Group
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/

PREMIS
PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

PURL
Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
http://purl.oclc.org/

## R

RAC
Research Advisory Committee

RDF
Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

RDF-DC
Resource Description Framework - Dublin Core

RDN
Resource Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/

REST
REpresentational State Transfer
http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/FrontPage

RIAO
Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur

RLAC
Research Libraries Advisory Committee (OCLC)
http://www.oclc.org/membership/advisorycommittees/

RLG
Research Libraries Group
http://www.rlg.org/

RONDAC
Regional OCLC Network Directors Advisory Committee

RSLP
UK Research Support Libraries Programme
http://www.rslp.ac.uk/

RSS
Really Simple Syndication

RUSA
Reference and User Services Association
http://www.ala.org/rusaTemplate.cfm?Section=rusa

## S

SCORM
Sharable Content Object Reference Model

SCURL
Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries
http://scurl.ac.uk

SEAALL
Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/

SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/

SIGDOC
Special Interest Group for Documentation
http://www.acm.org/sigdoc/

SIGIR
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
http://www.acm.org/sigir/

SLA
Special Libraries Association
http://www.sla.org/

SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

SOLINET
Southeastern Library Network, Inc.
http://www.solinet.net/

SRU
Search & Retrieve URL Service
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/sru.html

SRW
Search & Retrieve Web Service
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/

SRW/U
Search & Retrieve Web Service/URL Service

STORD
Structured Text on Relational Databases

## T

Tcl
Tool Command Language
http://www.tcl.tk/

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

## U

UDC
Universal Decimal Classification
http://www.udcc.org/

UIUC
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.uiuc.edu/

UKOLN
United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
http://www.unesco.org/

URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

URL
Uniform Resource Locator
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/

## V

VALA
Victorian Association for Library Automation, Inc.
http://www.vala.org.au

VIAF
Virtual International Authority File
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/viaf/

## W

W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3c.org/

WiLS
Wisconsin Library Services
http://www.wils.wisc.edu/

WSDL
Web Services Description Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl12/

## X

XHTML
eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

XML
eXtensible Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/XML/

XMP
eXtensible Metadata Platform
http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/

XSL
eXtensible Stylesheet Language
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

XSLT
XSL Transformations
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

## Z

Z39.50
"Z Thirty-Nine Dot Fifty"
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/

ZIG
Z39.50 Implementors Group
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zig/

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