Appendix D
Abbreviations and Acronyms
AAP
Association of American Publishers
AIChE
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ACL
access control list
ACS
American Chemical Society
ARL
Association of Research Libraries
ATM
asynchronous transfer mode
CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service
CD-ROM
compact disk—read only memory
CODATA
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)
CODIAC
Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalogue
CRADA
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
DDBJ
DNA Database of Japan
DIPPR
Design Institute for Physical Properties Research
DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid
DOD
Department of Defense
DOE
Department of Energy
DODS
Distributed Oceanographic Data System
DOQ
digital orthophoto quadrangles
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EMBL
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EU
European Union
FAR
Federal Acquisition Regulation
FOIA
Freedom of Information Act
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
FTP
file transfer protocol
FY
Fiscal Year
GB
gigabyte
GIS
geographic information system
GPS
Global Positioning System
HR
House Resolution
HCSN
High Capacity Satellite Network
HTML
hypertext mark-up language
ICSU
International Council for Science
IDD
Internet Data Distribution
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IP
Internet protocol
IPR
intellectual property right
IRB
Institutional Review Board
ISI
Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.
ITA
International Trade Administration
LTER
Long-Term Ecological Research
MB
megabyte
MMDB
Molecular Modeling Database
NavTech
Navigation Technologies, Inc.
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBII
National Biological Information Infrastructure
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCDC
National Climatic Data Center
NESDIS
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
netCDF
network common data form
NEXRAD
Next Generation Radar
NHGRI
National Human Genome Research Institute
NIH
National Institutes of Health
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLM
National Library of Medicine
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSDI
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF
National Science Foundation
NWIS
National Weather and Information System
NWS
National Weather Service
OCR
optical character recognition
OMB
Office of Management and Budget
OMIM
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
PC
personal computer
PDB
Protein Data Bank
R&D
research and development
REFPROP
Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Refrigerants and Refrigerant Mixtures Database
S&T
scientific and technical
SDTS
spatial data transfer standard
STN
Science and Technology Network
TASC
The Analytical Corporation
UCAR
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UCC
Uniform Commercial Code
UCTTA
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act
UniGene
Unique Human Gene Sequence Collection
USC
United States Code
USGS
United States Geological Survey
WIPO
World Intellectual Property Organization
WMO
World Meteorilogical Organization
WSI
Weather Services International
WWW
World Wide Web