This list of abbreviations is the standard for UEE publications. For the convenience of the readers the links to those resources are listed here.
AEB |
Annual Egyptological Bibliography
www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb.html |
AIGYPTOS |
online Egyptological bibliography
http://www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de/ |
APIS |
Advanced Papyrological Information System
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/index.html |
ARCE |
American Research Center in Egypt |
ARK |
Archival Resource Key (adapted Digital Object Identifier)
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/ |
ATS |
Academic Technology Services (UCLA campus wide institute)
www.ats.ucla.edu |
AWOL |
Ancient World Online project, to be published by Blackwell Publishing |
CCER |
Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research
http://www.ccer.nl/ |
CDH |
Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA
http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/ |
CDL |
California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/index.html |
CDLI |
Cuneiform Digital Library Intiative
http://cdli.ucla.edu |
CMS |
Course Management System
http://www.edutools.info/course/ |
CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
http://www.cnrs.fr/ |
CultNat |
Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
www. cultnat .org |
DC |
Dublin Core, a metadata initiative
http://dublincore.org/ |
DL |
UCLA Digital Library System
http://digital.library.ucla.edu . |
DSpace |
A digital library system developed at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) http://www.dspace.org/ |
DOI |
Digital Object Identifier |
DTD |
Document Type Definition. A DTD states what tags and attributes are used to describe content in an SGML , XML or HTML document, where each tag is allowed, and which tags can appear within other tags. |
eScholarship |
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html |
ETANA |
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
http://www.etana.org/ |
ETC |
Experiential Technology Center
http://www.etc.ucla.edu/ |
GIS |
Geographical Information Systems |
GPS |
Geographical Positioning System |
GSR |
Graduate Student Researcher |
HTML |
HyperText Markup Language
HTML |
IAE |
International Association of Egyptologists
http://www.iae.lmu.de/ |
IMS |
Instructional Management Systems
http://www.imsglobal.org/ |
JISC |
Joint Information Systems Committee, a division of the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils. http://www.jisc.ac.uk |
LÄ |
Lexikon der Ägyptologie (1975 - 1992), edited by Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, and Wolfhart Westendorf. |
LOM |
Learning Object Module |
MdC |
Manuel de Codage , handbook of codes underlying the hieroglyphic signs in the Glyph program. http://www.catchpenny.org/codage/ |
METEOR |
Middle Egyptian Text Editions for Online Research
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/MET/Meteor.html |
METS |
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.mit.edu/ |
MODS |
Metadata Object Description Schema
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ |
NWO |
Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (Stichting Nederlands Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/index |
NELC |
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA
www.nelc.ucla.edu |
OAI |
Open Archive Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/ |
OAIS |
Open Archival Information System
http://www.rlg.org/longterm/oais.html |
OCHRE |
Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment
http://ochre.lib.uchicago.edu/ |
OKI |
Open Knowledge Initiative
http://www.okiproject.org/ |
SEP |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/ |
SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGML |
SCORM |
Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model |
TBA |
To be announced |
T2K |
Text to Knowledge, a data-mining and visualization tool of D2K (Data to Knowledge) by the Automated Learning Group (ALG) http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/t2k |
UC |
University of California |
UCLA |
University of California , Los Angeles
http://www.ucla.edu/ |
UEE |
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/uee/ |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator (web-address) |
XML |
Extensible Markup Language
XML |
XML Schema |
A means of defining the structure, content, and semantics of an XML-encoded document. It contains a concise expression of the component parts of a document and their relation to each other (structure); the textual matter itself (content); and definitions of terminology used (semantics). |
XSLT |
Extensible Style Language Transformation
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/X/XSLT.html |
XSTAR |
XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research; now called OCHRE |
