Acronyms and Proper names used at INSPIRE, explained

• ADS: Astrophysics Data System, a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics
• AFS: Distributed Filesystem used at CERN visible on any LXPlus node and by the INSPIRE servers.
• Ajax: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
• Alice: The Alice experiment
• APPP: Author Publication Profile Page (e.g. http://inspirehep.net/author/J.R.Ellis.1/)
• arXiv: The main preprint server used by physicists, hosting many of the documents that INSPIRE aggregates.
• ATLAS: the ATLAS Experiment
• BFE: BibFormat Element
• Budget code: a metonimia for money reserve
• CDB: Language and repository currently used to maintain the profiles for INSPIRE clusters
• CDS: CERN Document Server
• CHEP: Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics conference
• CLI: Command Line Interface
• CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid (one of the experiments at CERN)
• CSC: CERN School of Computing
• CSS: Cascading Stylesheets
• DC: Dublin Core metadata format (a very simple and well known way to describe documents)
• DESY: Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron at Hamburg, Germany
• DFS: Windows Distributed Filesystem used at CERN
• DG: Directeur Général (currently Rolf-Dieter Heuer)
• EDH: Electronic Document Handling System where all the bureaucracy is managed at CERN
• EDMS: CERN Engineering and Data Management Service (another system like CERN Document Server but not based on Invenio)
• EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• ETHZ: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
• Fermilab:
• FireRole: Firewall Like Role Definition language used within the WebAccess framework
• FFT: Fulltext File Transfer Invenio proprietary MARC tag used to upload files.
• GL: In CERN parlance 'group leader' who manages resources for a group (Jens for GS-SIS)
• Grey Book: lists of experiments, institutes and people participating in experiments at CERN
• GS: The department where the SIS group is located, and which pays salaries
• HP: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, our new servers brand
• HR: Human Resources Department at CERN
• HW: Hardware
• IE: Microsoft Internet Explorer
• ILL: Interlibrary Loan
• INFN: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
• INSPIRE: well...
• IP: Internet Protocol address
• IT: Information Technology Department at CERN
• LEP: Large Electron-Positron (Main project at CERN before LHC)
• LHC: Large Hadron Collider (Main project at CERN)
• LHCb:
• LHCC: ...
• Mac: Apple Macintosh
• MARC21: standard for the representation of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form
• MARS: ...
• MBI: ...
• MC: Marie Curie Fellows
• MediaArchive: ...
• MEIND: ...
• MG: Multimedia Gallery
• MMD: ...
• MUSE: ...
• MPI: ...
• NICE: Windows service at CERN
• NLM: ...
• NUR: ...
• OA: Open Access
• OAI: Open Archive Initiative
• OMC: ...
• OPAC: ...
• Open/SCOAP3: ...
• OpenURL: standard for putting bibliographic metadata within URLs
• PB: ...
• PERi: ...
• PH: Physics Department at CERN
• PhotoLab: ...
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, the previous language used at the time of CDSWare
• PICT: ...
• PoW: Program of Work (Something done in the IT department to plan the year ahead)
• PR: ...
• Press Office: ...
• PROD: Alias for inspirehep
• PUB: ...
• Publiline: ...
• Quattor: ...
• RBAC: Role Based Access Control, authorization architecture used within WebAccess
• regex: Regular Expression
• recID: record identificator within Inspire
• RERO: Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale
• RM: Real Media file
• RSS: Really Simple Syndication
• SBI: ...
• SIPB: Scientific Information Policy Board, which oversees SIS group and therefore also INSPIRE activities
• SIS: Scientific Information Service, the group in the GS department where most of the INSPIRE resources at CERN are located
• SL: In CERN parlance a "section leader", who manages resources for a section (Salvatore for GS-SIS-OA, Tibor for IT-CIS-DLT)
• SLAC: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• SLC(3,4,5): Scientific Linux CERN, CERN customized Linux Distribution
• SLS: Service Level Status web service
• SMAC: ...
• SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SPIRES: The thing which was there before INSPIRE
• SPSC: ...
• SSO: Single Sign-On, central authentication system used at CERN
• SUN: Sun Microsystems, our old servers brand
• UW: ...
• WebDoc: ...
• WML: Website META Language
• XSS: Cross-site scripting