This appendix provides definitions for acronyms and abbreviations used in the Guide to the CGDI.
ANSI/NISO: American National Standards Institute/National Information Standards Organization
API: Application Program Interface
ASDI: Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure
ASP: Active Server Pages
CCFM: Canadian Council of Forest Ministers
CEOS: Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (NASA)
CFS: Canadian Forest Service
CGDI: Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CGKN: Canadian Geoscience Knowledge Network
CGNDB: Canadian Geographic Names Database
CGNS: Canadian Geographic Name Service
CIP: Catalogue Interoperable Protocol
COM: Common Object Model (Microsoft)
CORBA®: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CSDGM: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC)
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CWC2: CGDI Web Map Service Client Component
EbXML: Electronic Business using Extensible Markup Language
EMAN: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Network
EOS: Earth Observation System
EOSDS: Earth Observation System Distribution Station
ESQL: Eiffel SQL Library
ESS: Earth Sciences Sector
FGDC: Federal Geographic Data Committee
FSA: Forward Sorting Area (postal code)
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
GCMD: Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
GIF: Graphics Interface Format
GII: (European) Geographic Information Infrastructure
GILS: Global Information Location Service
GIS: Geographic Information System
GML: Geography Markup Language
GOFC: Global Observation of Forest Cover
GSDI: Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IDN: International Directory Network
IIOP: Inter-Orb Protocol
IMS: Information Management System
IP: Internet Protocol
ISO: International Organization for Standardization
IT: Information Technology
LAN: Local Area Network
LIO: Land Information Ontario
M3Cat: Multistandard, Multilingual Metadata Cataloguing Tool
NaLIS: National Infrastructure for Land Information System (Malaysia)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure
NFD: National Forestry Database
NFDP: National Forestry Database Program
NFIS: National Forestry Information System
NGDF: National Geospatial Data Framework (U.K.)
NGSC: National Geological Surveys Committee
NRCan: Natural Resources Canada
NSDI: National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (U.S.)
NSIF: National Spatial Information Framework (South Africa)
NTS: National Topographic System
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity
OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
OGD: Other Government Departments
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft)
RDBMS: Relational Database Management Software
RPN: Reverse Polish Notation
RUC: Reusable Component
SDE: Spatial Database Engine
SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructure
SLD: Styled Layer Descriptor
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
SNB's RPIIS: Service New Brunswick's Real Property Information Internet Service
SNIG: National Spatial Data Infrastructure (Portugal)
SNSMR: Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL: Structured Query Language
SQLNet: Structured Query Language Network
SRS: Spatial Reference System
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
TAP: Technology Advisory Committee (GeoConnections)
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
VBScript: Visual Basic Script
WCS: Web Coverage Service
WFS: Web Feature Service
WMS: Web Map Service, Web Map Server
WSDL: Web Services Description Language
W3C: World Wide Consortium
XML: Extensible Markup Language
XSD: XML Schema Definition Language