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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2003. The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10785.
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Appendix D
Acronyms and Initialisms


ABA

American Bar Association


BP

British Petroleum


CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CODATA

Committee on Data for Science and Technology

CP

Challenge Program

CSS

content scrambling system


DMCA

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

DOE

Department of Energy

DRM

digital rights management


ELSI

Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

EOSAT

Earth Observation Satellite (Company)

EST

expressed sequence tag

E.U.

European Union


GCC

GNU C compiler

GUI

graphical user interface

GNU

a recursive name for GNU not Unix; refers to Stallman’s free software movement

GPL

general public license


HGS

Human Genome Sciences

HP

Hewlett Packard

HR

House Resolution

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2003. The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10785.
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IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IOM

Institute of Medicine

IP

intellectual property

IPR

intellectual property rights

IT

information technology


LASL

Los Alamos Sequence Library


MDI

Mutations Database Initiative

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MTA

Material Transfer Agreement


NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCDC

National Climate Data Center

NCLS

National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC

National Research Council

NSF

National Science Foundation


OBER

Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE)

OMB

Office of Management and Budget


PTO

Patent and Trademark Office


R&D

research and development

RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America


SNP

single nucleotide polymorphism

S&T

Scientific and Technical

STI

scientific and technical data and information


TAC

Technical Advisory Committee


UCITA

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2003. The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10785.
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This symposium brought together leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical data and information (STI) to: (1) describe and discuss the role and the benefits and costs--both economic and other--of the public domain in STI in the research and education context, (2) to identify and analyze the legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in STI in research and education, (3) describe and discuss existing and proposed approaches to preserving the public domain in STI in the United States, and (4) identify issues that may require further analysis.

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