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| Acronym | Expansion | Note | Last Updated |
| 3D Murale | 3D Measurement & Virtual Reconstruction of Ancient Lost Worlds of Europe | EU funded (IST) project using 3D tools to reconstruct the past | 19/07/2004 |
| 5/99 | 5/99 | JISC Programme to promote the use of electronic resources in Teaching and Learning | 19/07/2004 |
| A2A | Access to Archives | National project to provide unified access to local archives | 19/07/2004 |
| ABMAP | Animal Bone Metric Archive Project | | 19/07/2004 |
| ADAM | Art, Design, Architecture and Media gateway | Portal to art history and design information | 19/07/2004 |
| ADAP | Archaeology Data Archive Project | Based in the Centre for the Study of Architecture Bryn Mawr (now defunct) | 19/07/2004 |
| ADS | Archaeology Data Service | Hosts AHDS Archaeology, based at the University of York, founding partner of AHDS | 19/07/2004 |
| AHDS | Arts and Humanities Data Service | National service help create and disseminate digital resources in arts and humanities | 19/07/2004 |
| AHRC | Arts and Humanities Research Council (formerly AHRB) | Major grant giving organisation for UKHE | 07/04/2005 |
| AIA | Archaeological Institute of America | Organises annual conference | 19/07/2004 |
| AIACE | Associazione Internazionale di Archeologie ComputazionalE | International Association of Computing in Archaeology | 19/07/2004 |
| AIP | Archaeological Investigations Programme | EH funded project at Bournemouth University to record archaeological interventions in the UK | 19/07/2004 |
| ALGAO | Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers | membership organisation for local archaeology officers in the UK | 19/07/2004 |
| ALIVE | Academic Literacy In Virtual Environments | Archaeology teaching and learning project led by University of Leicester | 19/07/2004 |
| AML | Ancient Monuments Laboratory | part of EH | 19/07/2004 |
| AONB | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty | Legal designation | 19/07/2004 |
| AOT | Archaeological Objects Thesaurus | MDA thesaurus of archaeological object types | 19/07/2004 |
| AP | Aerial Photography (aerial photograph) | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| AQUARELLE | European information network for cultural heritage | Early EU funded portal project for archaeology, now off line | 19/07/2004 |
| ARCHEOGUIDE | Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-Site Guide | EU funded (IST) project, electronic hand held on-site guides, linked to central computer, uses VR | 19/07/2004 |
| ARCH-Terra | Extending the European Archaeology Web across Bulgaria, Poland and Romania | EU funded (Copernicus) project, developing web presence and multi lingual thesaurus | 19/07/2004 |
| ARCO | Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects | EU funded (IST) project in VR exhibitions | 19/07/2004 |
| AREA | Archives of Research in European Archaeology | EC funded (Culture 2000) project to investigate archives of archaeology in Europe | 19/07/2004 |
| ARENA | Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access | EC funded (Culture 2000) project at ADS | 19/07/2004 |
| ARGE | Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe | Web gateway to European Archaeology | 19/07/2004 |
| ARIA | Arts and Humanities Research ICT Awareness and Training | Group helping humanities community to use ICT tools and resources | 15/01/2005 |
| ARIA | Association of Regional and Island Archaeologists | Membership organisation for local archaeology curators in Scotland. Now merged with ALGAO | 19/07/2004 |
| ASP | Accessing Scotland's Past | HLF funded project led by RCAHMS | 19/07/2004 |
| BA | British Academy | Major grant giving organisation for UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| BAR | British Archaeological Reports | Publisher | 19/07/2004 |
| BIAB (or biab) | British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography | Archaeological bibliography managed by CBA | 15/02/2005 |
| BL | British Library | National library of England | 19/07/2004 |
| BLDSC | British Library Document Supply Centre | Inter-library loan service provider | 19/07/2004 |
| BLRIC | British Library Research and Innovation Centre | | 19/07/2004 |
| BM | British Museum | | 19/07/2004 |
| BN | Bibliotheque National | National library of France | 19/07/2004 |
| BRICKS | Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services | EU funded (FW6) Integrated Project working on Public access to heritage | 19/07/2004 |
| BUBL | Bulletin Board to Libraries | | 19/07/2004 |
| BUND | British Universities Newsreel Database | Database of British cinema newsreels from 1910 to 1979 | 03/08/2004 |
| BUFVC | British Universities Film and Video Council | | 19/07/2004 |
| CAA | Computer Applications in Archaeology | annual conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| CBA | Council for British Archaeology | advocacy and membership body for the historic environment in britain | 19/07/2004 |
| CCH | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | Research and development centre for ICT and humanites at King's College London | 03/08/2004 |
| CCTA | Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency | an agency of the UK government's Cabinet Office offering IT training and support primarily for the public services sector | 19/07/2004 |
| CDDA | Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis | A digitisation service based in Queen's University Belfast | 19/07/2004 |
| CEDARS | CURL Exemplars in Digital ARchiveS | JISC funded project at Leeds university. Now defunct | 19/07/2004 |
| CEI | Committee on Electronic Information | JISC Committee | 19/07/2004 |
| CEN/ISSS | European Committee for Standardisation (Comité Européen de normalisation)/Information Society Standardisation System | | 19/07/2004 |
| CHART | Computers and the History of Art | UK-based forum for art and design historians | 03/08/2004 |
| CHCC | Contemporary Historical Census Collection | | 19/07/2004 |
| CHIOS | Cultural Heritage Interchange Ontology Standardization | EU funded project that later became part of CIDOC CRM | 19/07/2004 |
| CI5 | Criminal Intelligence | UK crime fighting duo | 19/07/2004 |
| CIDOC | International Committee for Documentation | The international focus for the documentation interests of museums and related organizations at ICOM | 19/07/2004 |
| CIDOC CRM | CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model | Provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation | 19/07/2004 |
| CIE | Common Information Environment | Cross sectoral working party to promote access to public sector information | 19/07/2004 |
| CIMEC | Institute for Cultural Memory | Romananian state heritage service | 15/02/2005 |
| CIMI | Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information | | 19/07/2004 |
| CIPHER | Communities of Interest Promoting Heritage of European Regions | EU funded (IST) project allowing communities to create multiple narratives for heritage sites & Monuments | 19/07/2004 |
| COMPENDIUM | Cultural Policies in Europe | EU funded project allowing access to Europe wide heritage policies | 19/07/2004 |
| COPAC | CURL Online Public Access Catalogue | A shared interface to the collected holdings of CURL | 19/07/2004 |
| CORDIS | Community Research and Development Information Service | EU web resource for research support | 19/07/2004 |
| CPAT | Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust | Local field unit and curators | 19/07/2004 |
| CREE | Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment | JISC funded project at Hull University to examine personalisation of portals | 19/07/2004 |
| CSA | Council for Scottish Archaeology | Partner of the CBA | 19/07/2004 |
| CT | Computed tomography | Generic term for solid modelling through remote sensing | 19/07/2004 |
| CTI | Computers in Teaching Initiative | National programme to support ICT in teaching (now defunct) | 19/07/2004 |
| CTICH | CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History | CTI subject based centre based at Glasgow University (now defunct) | 19/07/2004 |
| CTRL | Channel Tunnel Rail Archive | Major development project that deposited archive with ADS | 19/07/2004 |
| CURL | Consortium of University Research Libraries | Consortium of leading UKHE libraries | 19/07/2004 |
| CVCP | Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals | Advocacy and membership body formed by University principals and vice chancellors Now named UUK | 19/07/2004 |
| CYCLADES | | EU funded (IST) project creating an open collaborative virtual archive environment, now part of DELOS (FP6 Network of Excellence) | 19/07/2004 |
| DANA | Digital Archive Network for Anthropology | Based at University of North Dakota in the US | 19/07/2004 |
| DAPPER | Digital Archiving Pilot Project for Excavation Records | EH funded project at ADS to examine digital preservation (now completed) | 19/07/2004 |
| DC | Dublin Core | Metadata element set | 19/07/2004 |
| DCC | Digital Curation Centre | A Jisc / Escience centre for digital preservation | 19/07/2004 |
| DCMES | Dublin Core Metadata Element Set | | 19/07/2004 |
| DCMS | Department for Culture Media and Sport | Government Department for England | 19/07/2004 |
| DELOS | | EU funded (IST FP6) NoE on Digital Libraries | 19/07/2004 |
| DigiCULT | | EU funded (IST) study in three stages. Generates useful documents on digital applications in cultural heritage sector | 19/07/2004 |
| DLF | Digital Library Foundation | US consortium of libraries pioneering IT use to advance library services | 15/01/2004 |
| DNER | Distributed National Electronic Resource | a programme by the JISC to build a pool of digital resources for the UKHE sector | 19/07/2004 |
| DOB | Defence of Britain Project | Database of sites & monuments from WW2 created by CBA | 19/07/2004 |
| DoENI | Department of Environment for Northern Ireland | Government department responsible for the historic environment in NI | 19/07/2004 |
| DPC | Digital Preservation Coalition | A membership organisation and advocacy group for digital preservation | 19/07/2004 |
| DRH | Digital Resources in the Humanities | annual conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| DSU | Data Services Unit | part of EH | 19/07/2004 |
| EAA | European Association of Archaeologists | annual conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| EAA | East Anglian Archaeology | Occasional Papers series | 19/07/2004 |
| EARL | Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries | | 19/07/2004 |
| EAU | Environmental Archaeology Unit | Specialist research group based at the University of York | 19/07/2004 |
| EC | European Commission | Executive agency of the EU | 19/07/2004 |
| ECAI | Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative | Project based at the University of California Berkeley to promote sharing of geo-temporal cultural heritage data | 19/07/2004 |
| ECP | European Cultural Paths | EU funded (Raphael) pilot project linking Northern European Bronze Age landscapes (see also European Paths to Cultural Landscapes) | 19/07/2004 |
| EDIAS | Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service | Recently developed at Manchester University, service for Impact Assessment. Soon to hit the humanities! | 19/07/2004 |
| EDINA | Edinburgh Data and Information Access | JISC-funded Data Centre with large humanities datasets | 15/01/2005 |
| EH | English Heritage | Executive Agency for Historic Environment in England | 19/07/2004 |
| ELib | Electronic Libraries Programme | a programme from JISC to enhance digital library provision | 19/07/2004 |
| ENDEX | Extended National inDEX | Monuments Database for Wales | 19/07/2004 |
| EPOCH | Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage | EU funded (FW6) NoE working on digital archives and VR | 15/01/2005 |
| ERPANET | Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network | EC funded (IST) project to inmprove knowledge of digital preservation | 19/07/2004 |
| ESDS | Economic and Social Data Service | | 19/07/2004 |
| ESF | European Science Foundation | EU funding stream for symposia, workshops etc | 19/07/2004 |
| ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council | Major Grant giving body for research in UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| EU | European Union | | 19/07/2004 |
| EUROGI | EURopean umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information | European wide association of organisations working with Geographic information | 19/07/2004 |
| EUS | Extensive Urban Survey | EH funded study of a small town in England | 19/07/2004 |
| FAIR | Focus on Access to Institutional Resources | JISC Programme to promote use of OAI PMH | 15/02/2004 |
| FDTL | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning | HEFCE fund to reward performance in subject review released in 5 batches by subject area | 19/07/2004 |
| FDTL1 | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning phase 1 | | 19/07/2004 |
| FDTL2 | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning phase 2 | | 19/07/2004 |
| FDTL3 | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning phase 3 | | 19/07/2004 |
| FDTL4 | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning phase 4 | | 19/07/2004 |
| FDTL5 | Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning phase 5 | FDTL prgramme that covered archaeology (begins Oct 2004) | 19/07/2004 |
| FISH | Forum on Information Standards in Heritge | UK wide successor to FISHEN | 19/07/2004 |
| FISHEN | Forum on Information Standards in Heritge (England) | Predecessor to FISH | 19/07/2004 |
| FP6 | Framework Programme 6 | EU funding stream | 19/07/2004 |
| FSI | Fornleifastofnun Islands | Icelandic National Heritage Agency | 19/07/2004 |
| G2GP | Guide to Good Practice | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| GEES | LTSN Centre for Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences | Based at Manchester University | 19/07/2004 |
| GIS | Geographic Information System | Generic term for geographic data analytical software | 19/07/2004 |
| GLSMR | Greater London Sites and Monuments Record | part of EH | 19/07/2004 |
| HATII | Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute | Research institute in ICT at University of Glasgow | 19/07/2004 |
| HBSMR | Historic Buildings Sites and Monuments Records System | Software created by Exegesis and popular with local government archaeologists | 19/07/2004 |
| HCA | LTSN centre for History Classics and Archaeology | Based at Glasgow University with archaeology centre in Manchester | 19/07/2004 |
| HDS | History Data Service (an AHDS subject centre) | based at UKDA in Essex University, founding partner of AHDS | 19/07/2004 |
| HEA | Higher Education Academy | 24 subject centres dedicated to improving teaching and learning experience in universities | 15/02/2005 |
| HEDS | Higher Education Digitisation Service | Digitisation consultancy at Hertfordshire University | 19/07/2004 |
| HEFC | Higher Education Funding Councils | generic term for the four UK higher education funding councils | 19/07/2004 |
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England | Main funding body for English HEIs | 19/07/2004 |
| HEFCW | Higher Education Funding Council for Wales | Main funding body for Welsh HEIs | 19/07/2004 |
| HEI | Higher Education Institution | Generic term for tertiary education providers | 19/07/2004 |
| HEIRNET | Historic Environment Information Resources Network | Consortium of UK and Ireland heritage information providers | 19/07/2004 |
| HEIRPORT | Historic Environment Information Resources Portal | A portal for access to information about the historic environment | 19/07/2004 |
| HEIRs | Historic Environment Information Resources | Generic term for historic environment information | 19/07/2004 |
| HERC | Historic Environment Record Centre | Generic term for local study centre | 19/07/2004 |
| HERMES | | An online database of over 25,000 audio-visual programmes in distribution in the UK | 03/08/2004 |
| HEREIN | European Heritage Network | EU funded project linking European heritage agencies, includes thesaurus development | 19/07/2004 |
| HESA | Higher Education Statistics Agency | Agency to supply statistics for HE and the government | 19/07/2004 |
| HILT | High Level Theasausus | JISC funded thesaurus scoping & pilot project | 19/07/2004 |
| HLC | Historic Landscape Characterisation | EH funded national programme | 19/07/2004 |
| HLF | Heritage Lottery Fund | Major grant giving organisation for the historic environment | 19/07/2004 |
| HRB | Humanities Research Board | Major grant-giving agency for UK HE (Now defunct and functions transferred to AHRC) | 19/07/2004 |
| HRI | Humanities Research Institute | Humanities computing unit based at Sheffield University | 15/02/2005 |
| HS | Historic Scotland | Executive agency for Historic Environment in Scotland | 19/07/2004 |
| HUMBUL | | Catalouge of Internet resources for arts and humanities community | 15/02/2005 |
| IAPA | Irish Association of Professional Archaeologists | Professional licensing agency for Ireland, including NI | 19/07/2004 |
| IBSS | International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | International bibliographic database that covers arts and humanities as well as social sciences | 03/08/2004 |
| ICOM | International Council of Museums | Membership organisation for museums | 19/07/2004 |
| ICS-FORTH | Institute of Computer Studies - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas | Greek institute that participates in a number of EU projects | 19/07/2004 |
| ICT | Information and Communications Technology | Generic term for computing infrastructure | 19/07/2004 |
| IFA | Institute of Field Archaeologists | Professional standards agency for archaeology in Scotland, Wales and England | 19/07/2004 |
| ILL | Inter-library Loan | generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| ILTHE | Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education | Professional standards agency for higher education teachers. Subsumed into the Higher Education Academy April 2004 | 19/07/2004 |
| IMC | International Medieval Congress | Annual conference at University of Leeds | 19/07/2004 |
| IP | Integrated Project | EU funded (FP6) projects that may include a number of activities | 19/07/2004 |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights | Broad family of rights protecting intellectual property (e.g. copyright, patents, trademarks) | 15/05/2005 |
| IST | Information Society Technologies | EU funding stream within the Framework Programme, currently Framework Programme 6 (FP6) | 19/07/2004 |
| JANET | Joint Academic NETwork | IT network for UKHE operated by UKERNA for JISC' | 19/07/2004 |
| JANET-CERT | Joint Academic NETwork Computer Emergency Response Team | Security advisors for JANET members | 19/07/2004 |
| JCAS | JISC Committee of Authentication and Security | Now defunct JISC committee to investigate and support IT security for UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| JCSR | JISC Committee in Support of Research | JISC Committee | 19/07/2004 |
| JISC | Joint Information Systems Committee | Committee of the HEFCs to suppoty networking between institutions | 19/07/2004 |
| JLIS | JISC Legal Information Service | JISC service to support IPR and related issues | 19/07/2004 |
| JSTOR | Jounral STORage | Online archive of scholarly journals | 15/01/2005 |
| JTAP | JISC Technology Application Programme | JISC Programme to support teaching with electronic resources | 19/07/2004 |
| KCL | King's College London | | 19/07/2004 |
| LB | Listed Building | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| LBS | Listed Building System | generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| LEMUR | Learning in Museums Using Resources | 5/99 project at the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen University | 19/07/2004 |
| LTSN | Learning Teaching Support Network | Agency to promote good practice in teraching and learning. Subsumed into the Higher Education Academy April 2004 | 19/07/2004 |
| MAGIC | Muli-agency Government Information for the Countryside | web-based interactive map to bring together geographic information | 19/07/2004 |
| MATAHARI | Mobile Access to Artifacts and Heritage at Remote Installations | EU funded (IST) demonstrator project using mobile communications technology | 19/07/2004 |
| MDA | Museums Documentation Association | Membership organisation and advisory agency for museums | 19/07/2004 |
| MGC | Museums and Galleries Commission | Agency to promote and advise museums and galleries in the UK. Now defunct with activities transferred to MLA | 19/07/2004 |
| MIDAS | Monuments Inventory Data Standard | A data standard | 19/07/2004 |
| MIMAS | Manchester Information & Associated Services | JISC-funded Data centre | 03/08/2004 |
| MINERVA | | EU funded NoE of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation | 19/07/2004 |
| MLA | Council for Museums Libraries and Archives | New name for Re:source | 19/07/2004 |
| MoLAS | Museum of London Archaeology Service | Archaeological field unit | 19/07/2004 |
| MRC | Medical Research Council | Major grant giving agennt to UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| NARD | National Agency for Resource Discovery | A collaboration between national local public and HEI libraries to offer catalogues on-line. | 19/07/2004 |
| NBN | National Biodiversity Network | | 19/07/2004 |
| NCA | National Council Archives | | 19/07/2004 |
| NCT | National Co-ordination Team | Overseeing the TQEF and FDTL | 19/07/2004 |
| NDAD | National Digital Archive of Data sets | Digital preservation service offered by ULCC | 19/07/2004 |
| NERC | Nature and Environment Research Council | Major grant giving body for scientific research in UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| NGDF | National Geospatial Data Framework | | 19/07/2004 |
| NHM | Natural History Museum | | 19/07/2004 |
| NINCH | National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage | Wrote a Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials | 19/07/2004 |
| NMGW | National Museums and Galleries of Wales | | 19/07/2004 |
| NMP | National Mapping Programme | EH led project to map archaeological sites and monuments | 19/07/2004 |
| NMR | National Monuments Record of England | The public archive of English Heritage | 19/07/2004 |
| NMRC | National Monuments Record Centre | English Heritage study centre | 19/07/2004 |
| NMRS | National Monuments Record of Scotland | The public archiove of RCAHMS | 19/07/2004 |
| NMRW | National Monuments Record of Wales | The public archive of RCAHMW | 19/07/2004 |
| NMS | National Museums of Scotland | | 19/07/2004 |
| NoE | Network of Excellence | EU funded (FP6) networks promoting joint programmes of activities amongst partners and invited others | 19/07/2004 |
| NOF | New Opportunities Fund | | 19/07/2004 |
| NPO | National Preservation Office: part of the British Library | | 19/07/2004 |
| NRM | National Railway Museum | | 19/07/2004 |
| NT | National Trust | | 19/07/2004 |
| NTS | National Trust for Scotland | | 19/07/2004 |
| OAD | Oxford ArchDigital | Software Company | 19/07/2004 |
| OAI PMH | Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting | Protocol | 19/07/2004 |
| OAIS | Open Archive Information System | Standard process for digital preservation | 19/07/2004 |
| OASIS | Online AccesS to the Index of Archaeological InterventionS | EH-funded and RSLP project at ADS | 19/07/2004 |
| OAU | Oxford Archaeological Unit | Field unit | 19/07/2004 |
| OCLC | Online Computing Library Center | | 03/08/2004 |
| OGC | Open GIS Consortium | Membership organisation and standards agency for GIS | 19/07/2004 |
| OHPR | Online Historical Population Records | Project at HDS | 19/07/2004 |
| OPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue | Generic term for library catalogue systems | 19/07/2004 |
| OPENHERITAGE | | EU funded (IST) project aiming to develop infrastructure to allow access to distributed musem collections | 19/07/2004 |
| OTA | Oxford Text Archive | Founding partner of AHDS - - Hosts AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics | 19/07/2004 |
| PADS | Performing Arts Data Service (now AHDS Performing Arts) | Founding partner of AHDS at University of Glasgow | 19/07/2004 |
| PALATINE | | HEA Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music | |
| PAST | exPeriencing Archaeology through Space and Time | Digital Library Forum funded project using hand held PCs to go round heritage sites | 19/07/2004 |
| PATHWAYS | Pathways to Cultural Landscapes | EU funded (Culture 2000) project highlighting natural & heritage landscapes (see also ECP) | 19/07/2004 |
| PATOIS | Publications and Archives in Teaching: Online Information Sources | JISC-funded project at ADS | 19/07/2004 |
| PLANARCH | | EU funded project linking UK, French & Belgian Local Authorities | 19/07/2004 |
| PPARC | Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council | Major grant giving agennt to UKHE | 19/07/2004 |
| PPG15 | Planning Policy Guidance note 15 (Historic Buildings) | Development law in England | 19/07/2004 |
| PPG16 | Planning Policy Guidance note 16 (Archaeology) | Development law in England | 19/07/2004 |
| PRO | Public Records Office | | 19/07/2004 |
| PUNS | Publication user needs survey | Project at the CBA | 19/07/2004 |
| RCAHMS | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | Agency that records and preserves information about ancient monuments in Scotland | 19/07/2004 |
| RCAHMW | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales | Agency that records and preserves information about ancient monuments in Wales | 19/07/2004 |
| RCHME | Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England | Agency that recorded and preserved information about ancient monuments in England. Now part of EH | 19/07/2004 |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System | Generic term for relational database software | 19/07/2004 |
| RDN | Resource Discovery Network | JISC service to describe the Internet | 19/07/2004 |
| RDNC | Resource Discovery Network Centre | Executive centre of RDN | 19/07/2004 |
| RECAP | Rescue of Completed Archaeological Projects | EH-funded project at ADS | 19/07/2004 |
| RLE | Rail Link Engineering | Major building firm responsible for CTRL | 19/07/2004 |
| RLG | Research Libraries Group | US based coalition of major research libraries | 19/07/2004 |
| ROADS | Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services | | 19/07/2004 |
| ROB | Rijksdienst Oudheid Bodmonderzoek | Netherland National Heritage Service | 19/07/2004 |
| ROMEO | Rights Metadata for Open Archiving | JISC funded project in the FAIR programme | 19/07/2004 |
| RSLP | Research Support Libraries Programme | Major programme to fund research libraries | 19/07/2004 |
| RSM | Record of Scheduled Monuments | | 19/07/2004 |
| SAA | Society of American Archaeologists | Membership organisation and annual conference | 19/07/2004 |
| SAL | Society of Antiquaries of London | Membership organisation and grant giving body | 19/07/2004 |
| SAM | Scheduled Ancient Monument | | 19/07/2004 |
| SAS | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland | Membership organisation and grant giving body | 19/07/2004 |
| SCAUM | Standing Conference on of Archaeological Unit Managers | | 19/07/2004 |
| SCRAN | Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network | Project to digisie and release cultural heritage data in scotland | 19/07/2004 |
| Sculpture | Semantic and content-based multimedia exploitation for European benefit | EU project creating virtual museum objects | 19/07/2004 |
| SHEFC | Scottish Higher Education Funding Council | Funding council | 19/07/2004 |
| SHERPA | Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access | JISC funded project in the FAIR programme at Nottingham University | 19/07/2004 |
| SIAD | Surrey Institute of Art and Design | Host of AHDS Visual Arts | 03/08/2004 |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| SLD | Service Level Definition | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| SM | Scheduled Monument | Legal designation | 19/07/2004 |
| SMA | Society of Museum Archaeologists | membership organisation and advocacy group | 19/07/2004 |
| SMR | Sites and Monuments Record | generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| SMRO | Sites and Monuments Record Officer | generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| SSSI | Sites of Special Scientific Interest | Legal designation | 19/07/2004 |
| TAG | Theoretical Archaeology Group | Annual conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| TASI | Technical Advisory Service for Images | JISC service | 19/07/2004 |
| TEI | Text Encoding Iniative | Common, scholarly XML standard for marking up texts | 15/02/2005 |
| THES | Times Higher Education Supplement | Newspaper | 19/07/2004 |
| TLTP | Teaching Learning Technology Project | Major programme in the early 1990s to use computers in teaching | 19/07/2004 |
| TMT | Thesaurus of Monument Types | EH thesaurus of monument types | 19/07/2004 |
| TNA | The National Archives | National archival agency for Engalnd | 19/07/2004 |
| TORC | Teaching and Online Resources Centre | CBA project to provide access to educational resources | 19/07/2004 |
| TOURBOT | Interactive Museum Tele-presence through Interactive Avitars | EU funded (IST) project developing an interactive tour-guide robot | 19/07/2004 |
| TQEF | Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund | | 19/07/2004 |
| TRAC | Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference | Annual conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| UAD | Urban Archaeological Database | | 19/07/2004 |
| UCAS | University and Colleges Admission Service | | 19/07/2004 |
| UCISA | Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association | | 19/07/2004 |
| UCL | University College London | | 19/07/2004 |
| UKC | University of Kent at Canterbury | | 19/07/2004 |
| UKDA | United Kingdom Data Archive | | 19/07/2004 |
| UKERNA | United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association | Manages the operation and development of the JANET under an SLA with the JISC | 19/07/2004 |
| UKHE | United Kingdom higher education | Generic term | 19/07/2004 |
| UKMEG | UK Metadata in Education Group | Working party to promote educational metadata | 19/07/2004 |
| UKOLN | UK Office for Library and Information Networking | JISC and MLA funded agency to advise on IT in libraries | 19/07/2004 |
| ULCC | University of London Computing Centre | | 19/07/2004 |
| UUK | Universities UK | Advocacy and membership body formed by University principals and vice chancellors, formerly CVCP. | 19/07/2004 |
| VADS | Visual Arts Data Service | Founding partner of AHDS (now known as AHDS Visual Arts) | 03/08/2004 |
| VALHALLA | Virtual Access to Landscapes and Historic Gardens at Linked Locations | EU project linking landscapes & historic gardens | 19/07/2004 |
| VAST | Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage | Annual symposium set up by a number of EU projects and initiatives | 19/07/2004 |
| VLE | Virtual Learning Environment | Generic term for a web-based system to integrate student learning and records management | 19/07/2004 |
| VR | Virtual Reality | Generic term for 3-d modelling technologies | 19/07/2004 |
| WAC | World Archaeology Congress | Quadrennial conference and membership organisation | 19/07/2004 |
| Web3D | Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication | Consortium working towards communicating with real-time 3D across applications, networks, and XML web services, also holds annual syposium | 19/07/2004 |
| WoSAS | West of Scotland Archaeology Service | Curatorial service formed from the Heritage service of Strathclyde Regional Council on its disaggregation | 19/07/2004 |
| WUN | World Universities Network | World wide consortium of major universities | 19/07/2004 |
| X4L | Exchange for Learning | JISC Programme to share learning objects | 19/07/2004 |
| YAT | York Archaeological Trust | York based heritage presentation organisation and field archaeology unit | 19/07/2004 |
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