Appendix A
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AIBS American Institute of Biological Sciences
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
CFFR Consolidated Federal Funds Report
CIP Classification of Instructional Programs
CRISP Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
CRS Congressional Research Service
DoD U.S. Department of Defense
DoE U.S. Department of Energy
DOI Digital Object Identifier system
DTIC Defense Technical Information Center
FAADS Federal Assistance Award Data System
FAC Federal Audit Clearinghouse
FFATA Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
FFRDC federally funded research and development center
FICE Federal Interagency Committee on Education
FPDS Federal Procurement Data System
FPDS—NG Federal Procurement Data System—Next Generation
HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
IMPAC-II Information for Management, Planning, Analysis, and Coordination
IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
LOD Linking Open Data community project
NAICS North American Industrial Classification System
NASA U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCES National Center for Education Statistics
NEC not elsewhere classified
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NITRD National Coordinating Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC U.S. National Science and Technology Council
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OMB U.S. Office of Management and Budget
OSTP U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy
OWL Web Ontology Language
PCAST President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PRIMUS PRIsm MUlti-object Survey
RaDiUS Research and Development in the United States
RCDC Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization system
R&D research and development
RDF resource description framework
RDFA resource description framework in attributes
RFFS resource description framework schema
SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, NSF
SciSIP Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program
S&E science and engineering
SKOS Simple Knowledge and Organization System
SOC standard occupational classification
SPARQL SPARQL Protocol and RDF query language
SPIRES Scientific Publication Information Retrieval System
SRS Division of Science Resources Statistics, NSF
SWEO Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
URI uniform resource identifiers
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
W3C SWEO World Wide Web Consortium Semantic Web Education and Outreach Group
XML eXtensible Markup Language
