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 * Accessibility for Learner Information Profile The IMS AccLIP Specification provides a means of describing preferences so that learners can interact with an e-learning system regardless of disability, hardware or environment.
 * AICC Aviation Industry CBT (Computer-Based Training) Committee
 * annotea External remarks that can be attached to (a selected part of) a document without actually needing to touch the document.
 * application profile A set of elements with associated descriptions of usage in a particular context.
 * ARIADNE Association of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe
 * Best Practice and Implementation guide One of a set of three documents that make up each of the IMS specifications.
 * binding "The association of a metadata assertion or statement with a particular suntactic encoding."
 * Binding document One of a set of three documents that make up each of the IMS specifications.
 * BSI British Standards Institute
 * caching The copying of data from external sources or previous operations.
 * CAI Computer-Assisted Instruction
 * cardinality "Specification of how many times a metadata element can or must appear in a metadata description."
 * CBT Computer-Based Training
 * CETIS Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
 * CMI Computer Managed Instruction
 * compliance The ability to operate in a way defined by a standard
 * conformance The ability to operate in a way defined by a specification
 * content package IMS Content Packaging is a specification for sending learning resources (or learning objects) from one program to another, facilitating easier delivery, reuse and sharing of materials.
 * controlled vocabulary Collection of controlled terms.
 * controlled vocabulary(2) "a formally maintained list of terms intended to provide values for metadata elements."
 * cross walk A mapping from the elements of one namespace to the elements of another namespace.
 * datatype "A property of distinct values, indicating common features of those values and operations on those values."
 * DCMES Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
 * DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
 * DOM Document Object Model
 * educational object a self-contained unit
 * element "a formally defined attribute or category of description in a metadata set."
 * element refinement A type of Dublin Core qualifier that is recommended for use with the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.
 * EML Educational Modelling Language
 * encoding scheme A type of Dublin Core qualifier that is recommended for use with the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.
 * Enterprise IMS Enterprise is a specification for transferring data about people and groups.
 * extensible IMS and IEEE use this word in the context of metadata, to describe an element that may contain sub-elements.
 * federated search A search agent that enables the user to search multiple sources at once and receive the search results on one list
 * fine granularity a large number of relatively small basic objects
 * granularity The size and level of complexity of a resource.
 * granule The smallest logical components into which educational materials can be divided.
 * Harvesting Automated gathering of data from external sources.
 * IEEE LTSC Learning Technology Standards Committee of IEEE
 * IEEE LTSC LOM WG The working group of the Learning Technology Standards Committee of IEEE concerned with learning objects and metadata
 * IMS Global Learning Consortium An organisation that produces specifications.
 * Information Model One of a set of three documents that make up each of the IMS specifications.
 * interoperability The ability of systems and data to  work seamlessly together.
 * ISO International Standards Organisation
 * JISC The Joint Information Systems Committee
 * LangString "A datatype that represents one or more character strings. A LangString value may include multiple semantically equivalent character strings, such as translations or alternative descriptions. "
 * LCMS Learning Content Management System
 * Learning Design IMS Learning Design is a specification used to describe learning scenarios. It allows these scenarios to be presented to learners online, and enables them to be shared between systems.
 * learning object An object which has a specified educational purpose or context.
 * learning object (2) "...a learning object is defined as any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training."
 * learning resource A resource that has a specified educational purpose or context.
 * LIP The IMS Learner Information Package (LIP) is a specification for a standard means of recording information about learners.
 * literal "any value other than a URI, such as a name or subject."
 * LOM This standard specifies the syntax and semantics of Learning Object Metadata, defined as the attributes required to fully/adequately describe a Learning Object.
 * metadata Data that describes other data.
 * metadata architecture "a coherent collection of enabling technologies, element sets, and standards of practice that collectively support the creation, management and exchange of interoperable metadata."
 * metadata element An individual part of a metadata structure.
 * metadata registry A place to access metadata schema information.
 * metadata schema A description of the structure given to a set of metadata elements.
 * metadata scheme A description of the structure given to a set of metadata elements.
 * metametadata Data about a metadata record
 * namespace A scoping device used for uniquely identifying registered entities.
 * namespace declaration "a convention for declaring a namespace in XML syntax that includes the URI for the namespace and specifies a colon-delimited prefix token that is prepended to all terms from that namespace used within the scope of the declaration."
 * namespace schema An equivalent of namespace declaration, the namespace schema declares the scope and bounds of a particular vocabulary.
 * OKI Open Knowledge Initiative
 * ontology(1) An explicitly specified conceptualisation of part of the world.
 * precision and recall These two terms are used to describe the accuracy of resource retrieval.
 * predicate "a verb phrase characterizing the relationship between the Subject and Object"
 * PURL Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
 * QTI IMS Question and Test Interoperability is designed to make it easier to transfer information such as questions, tests and results between different software applications.
 * qualifiers Used to describe resources in more detail than the Dublin Core Element Set (DCMES) allows when used alone.
 * RDF Resource Description Framework
 * RDF schema RDF schemas have a "primarily semantic interpretation"
 * Relevance How suitable a resource might be to an individual's needs.
 * schema "sets of statements expressed in a data definition language."
 * SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model provides a technical architecture for learning objects to be easily shared across multiple learning delivery
 * Semantic web The Semantic Web is a concept of the Web where machines are able to understand and interpret web resources for people.
 * semantics The meanings of words
 * simple sequencing IMS Simple Sequencing is a specification used to describe navigation paths through a collection of learning activities.
 * smallest permitted maximum "For implementation-defined values, the smallest permitted maximum value."
 * SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (pronounced "smile")
 * SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
 * specification A candidate for becoming a standard
 * standard A technology, format or method ratified by a respected authority
 * sub element An element which refines the definition of an existing element.
 * syntax machine readable language
 * taxonomy A subject scheme which organises knowledge into a hierarchy.
 * thesaurus A controlled vocabulary, structured into a hierarchy.
 * UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
 * UKOLN UKOLN is a national focus of expertise in digital information management, based at the University of Bath.
 * URI Uniform Resource Identifier
 * URL Uniform Resource Locator.
 * URN Uniform Resource Name.
 * value set "a controlled set of terms from which a value for a metadata element is selected."
 * value space "The set of values for a given datatype (ISO/IEC 11404:1996)"
 * vocabulary A recommended list of appropriate values.
 * W3C World Wide Web Consortium
 * xml eXtensible Mark-up Language
 * XML namespace
 * XML schema "XML schemas are used for modeling XML documents..."