Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age (2012)
Chapter: Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix A
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| API | application programming interface |
| APS | Archival Preservation System |
| ARC | Archival Research Catalog |
| BRDIS | Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey |
| CATI | computer-assisted telephone interviewing |
| CIPSEA | Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act |
| CRS | Congressional Research Service |
| D3 | Data Driven Documents |
| Data-PASS | Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences |
| DDI | Data Documentation Initiative |
| DVN | Dataverse Network |
| EDI | electronic data interchange |
| EIM | Enterprise Data/Information Management |
| EUROSTAT | Statistical Office of the European Union |
| FCSM | Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology |
| FFRDC | federally funded research and development center |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GPO | U.S. Government Printing Office |
| GSA | U.S. General Services Administration |
| HBCUs | historically black colleges and universities |
| HTML | hyper text markup language |
| ICPSR | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research |
| IPEDS | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System |
| IRIS | Industrial Research and Development Information System |
| NARA | National Archives and Records Administration |
| NCO | National Coordination Office |
| NCSES | National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NITRD | Networking and Information Technology Research and Development |
| NORC | National Opinion Research Center |
| NSCG | National Survey of College Graduates |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSRCG | National Survey of Recent College Graduates |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
| OPA | Online Public Access |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language |
| PDA | personal data assistant |
| POD | print-on -demand |
| PRA | Paperwork Reduction Act |
| R&D | research and development |
| RDC | Research Data Center |
| RDF | resource description framework |
| S&E | science and engineering |
| SciSIP | Science of Science and Innovation Policy |
| SCOPE | Statistical Community of Practice and Engagement |
| SDR | Survey of Doctorate Recipients |
| SED | Survey of Earned Doctorates |
| SEH | science, engineering, and health |
| SESTAT | Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System |
| SRS | Science Resources Statistics Division (renamed the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics) |
| STAR METRICS | Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
| STPI | Science and Technology Policy Institute |
| URL | uniform resource locator |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAI | Web Accessibility Initiative |
| WCAG | Web Content Accessibility Guidelines |
| WebCASPAR | Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System |
| XML | extensible markup language |
