This glossary has been generated to serve the participating agencies as a standardized vocabulary for their deliberations and guidelines. The definitions are largely based on those in common use in the field. The glossary is a work in progress, and will be updated and expanded frequently.
Statistics Explained is Eurostat's new way of publishing statistics on the internet. Its main purpose is to explain European statistics, by presenting data and pointing out what is interesting or surprising about them, with all the background needed for understanding them. The data discussed are recent, but not necessarily the very latest available. Statistics Explained offers deep and specific links to the most recent figures on Eurostat's website, as well as to metadata, additional information about the data such as definitions, methodological explanations, legal texts, etc. In this way, it can also serve as a portal to European data on any topic, even for specialists.
CLIO's SDS Controlled Vocabulary page for National Climatic Data Center's Archive Branch. It is the intent of this page to list acronyms, abbreviations, and controlled vocabulary you will find on NCDC's SDS website; and also to provide indexed links that will guide to all of the associated NCDC-SDS pages related to listed SDS and other controlled vocabularies.
definitions are taken largely from the OAIS Reference Model (draft revision) and the draft audit and certification documents. Alliance for Permanent Access.