Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML): supports web based applications in the interchange of data between server and client
Audience (in Drupal): with Communication Tools (e.g. forums) allows to select which groups will see a particular post or thread
Canarie: Canada’s Advanced Network / Le réseau évolué du Canada; non-profit membership-based organization devoted to supporting advanced web projects
Community of interest: a community of people who share a common interest, although they may differ greatly in other ways
Content types (in Drupal): basic means for organizing the content in Drupal, using pre-defined or user-specified terminology
DDI: Data Documentation Initiative — “an international project to create a standard for information describing social science data” (from DDI Wikipedia entry)
Disposable screencasts: quickly (and cheaply) produced screencasts that can be tailored to specific and immediate needs, then disposed of once the technology/needs change
DotProject: web-based Open Source project management software
Drupal: Open Source content management software (CMS) with active user community
Eating our own dogfood: VRE Dev Team speak; being sure to pay attention to work/changes we ask for (is that right?)
EML: Ecological Metadata Language; XML standard developed by and for the ecology discipline (could be used for Critter DB)
Fedora: digital repository system, known for supporting a variety of types of objects
Forums (in Drupal): based on Organic Groups
FoXML: Fedora Object XML — a simple XML format for storing Fedora digital objects, as well as for ingesting and exporting diigital objects into and out of Fedora
Ingesting: Fedora-speak; appears to mean something slightly different from “importing”
Jing – software for creating screencast learning tools
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol — an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server
LOR: Learning Object Repository — online databases of learning content (many of these exist)
Lucene: information retrieval library used in full-text indexing and searching of the Web, wither local or Internet-wide
METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema (standard maintained by the Library of Congress)
Modules (in Drupal): optional software components that make up Drupal ;designed for specific purposes; can be global or local; similar to FaceBook apps except typically more complex?
Muradora: repository application that supports federated identity (via Shibboleth authentication) and flexible authorization (using XACML); compatibe with Fedora
NEP: either Network Entry Point or Network Equipment Provider (or Needle Exchange Program?)
NeuroDyn: Canadian biotechnology company, PEI-based
Open Conference Systems (OCS): OS system for creating full-service website for conferences
Open Journal Systems (OJS): OS system for publishing and archiving an electronic journal
Pid: (most likely Process ID — or PID tuning software? or pelvic inflammatory disease?)
Regurgitating our own dowgfood: ?
Schema: document that defines the content and structure of a document or group of documents (often referring to XML schema)
Screencast: digital object that uses screen captured video, often with voice-over audio (usually referring to a learning tool = web tutorial); webcast
Script: piece of code written to control a specific aspect of a piece of computer software (often by the end user) but distinct from the application source code
Shibboleth: OS project devoted to federated identity-based authentication and authorization infrastructure — information about users in one security domain can be provided to other organizations in a common federation (also a notable West Wing episode)
Sliced-Book Navigation: Drupal module that creates a menu sub-item in menu structure when a child item is created in the site
Taxonomy: hierarchically structured classification system designed to organize and provide a systematic categories for a specific area (in the case of the VRE, these can be preexisting field-defined systems in XML that can be imported into applicable VREs)
TinyMCE: type of WYSIWYG (or WYSIWYAG) editor
Type ahead: software feature that allows users to continue typing at whatever speed, and if the receiving software is busy at the time it will be called to handle this later
Vertical application: software defined for a very narrow, specific market
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