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| Acronym | Expansion or explanation |
| ACL | Adult and Community Learning |
| ADSL | Broadband connection technology (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APOD | Adaptive Personalisation based On Data held elsewhere |
| APUA | Adaptive Personalisation based on User Activity |
| CETIS | UK Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards |
| CIE | Common Information Environment |
| DNER | The Distributed National Electronic Resource UK |
| EEVL | The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FE | Further Education |
| FHE | Further and Higher Education |
| FHEI | Further and Higher Education Institution |
| FOAF | Friend Of A Friend |
| HE | Higher Education |
| HESA | Higher Education Statistics Agency |
| HR | Human Resources |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technologies |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
| J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| JISC | The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) supports further and higher education in the UK by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning, research and administration. JISC is funded by all the UK post16 and higher education funding councils |
| JISC IE | The JISC Information Environment |
| JISC IEA | The JISC Information Environment Architecture (see Appendix 6) |
| JSR 168 | The Java Portlet Specification |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A set of protocols for accessing information directories |
| MLE | Managed Learning Environment |
| OPAC | On-line Public Access Catalogue (Library) |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| RDN | Resource Discovery Network |
| RDN VTS | The RDN Virtual Training Suite |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| RSLP | Research Support Libraries Programme UK |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol <http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/> |
| SPP | The RDN Subject Portals Project |
| UDDI | Universal Discovery Description and Integration |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| VLE | Virtual Learning Environment |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSRP | Web Services for Remote Portlets |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XSLT | eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation |
| ZOPE | Zope is an open source Web application server <http://www.zope.org/> |
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