ERIS Project Glossary
ARL - Association of Research Libraries (USA)
CDLR - Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde
CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
DAF - Data Audit Framework
DELOS - Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (European initiative)
DigiCULT – Digital Culture
DCC - Digital Curation Centre
DRAMBORA - Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
ERIS - Enhancing Repository Infrastructure in Scotland
ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council
FTE - Full-time Equivalent
FOI - Freedom of Information
HaIRST – Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed
HATII - Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute
HE - Higher education
HEI - Higher education institution
HILT - High-Level Thesaurus Project
IE - Information Environment, JISC
IPR - Intellectual property Rights
IRRA - Institutional Repositories and Research Assessment
IT - Information technology
JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee
OAI-ORE – Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
OAI-PMH – Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OATS - Open Access Team for Scotland
OCLC - Online Computer Library Center
RAE - Research Assessment Exercise
RGU - The Robert Gordon University
RLG - Research Libraries Group, OCLC
RLUK - Research Libraries UK
MBA - Master of Business Administration
NLS - National Library of Scotland
SAC - Scottish Agricultural College
SAGES - Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society
SCURL - Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries
SFC - Scottish Funding Council
SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg
SICSA - Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance
SIRE - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics
SLIC - Scottish Library and Information Council
StORe – Source to Output Repositories project
SULSA - Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance
SUPA - Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
UWS - University of the West of Scotland
VRE - Virtual Research Environment
VFM - Value for Money (Studies, see ESRC)
WP - Workpackage
