Glossary

Below are a range of terms that are used in eResearch

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A

  • AAA - Authorisation, Authentication and Accounting
  • AAF - Australian Access Federation
  • AAI - Authentication/Authorisation Infrastructure
  • AARNet - Australia's Academic and Research Network
  • AeRIC - Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
  • ANDS - Australian National Data Service
  • APAC - Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
  • API - application programming interface
  • APSR - Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
  • ARC - Australian Research Council
  • ARCS - Australian Research Collaboration Services
  • ARCHER - Australian ResearCH Enabling enviRonmet & Annotation e-Research Technologies

C

  • CA - Certificate Authority
  • CAS - Community Authorisation Service
  • CASTOR - CERN Advanced STORage manager
  • CAUDIT - Council of Australian University Directors of Information
  • CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
  • CMS - content management system
  • Cyberinfrastructure (CI) - term used in the U.S.A. with a similar meaning to eResearch

D

  • DART - Dataset Acquisition Accessibility & Annotation e-Research Technologies
  • DBI - Department of Business and Innovation
  • dCache - disk pool management system
  • DEST - Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (No longer exists, see DEEWR)
  • DEEWR - Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
  • DIIRD - Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (No longer exists see DBI)
  • DIISR - Commonwealth Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
  • DPI - Department of Primary Industries
  • DPM - Disk Pool Manager
  • DSE - Department of Sustainability and Environment

E

  • EGEE - Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
  • eRCC - National e-Research Coordinating Committee
  • eResearch - the use of ICT to enhance and enable research.
  • e-Science - the use of high performance computing to enhance research, commonly used in the UK
  • e-Infrastructure - term which is used in Europe which is largely interchangeable with eResearch and e-Science

G

  • GSI - Grid Security Infrastructure

H

  • Hydra - distributed key management

I

  • IAM - Identity and Access Management
  • ICT - Information and Communication Technology
  • IGTF - International Grid Trust Federation

K

  • Kepler workflow - Kepler is a software application for the analysis and modeling of scientific data. Kepler simplifies the effort required to create executable models by using a visual representation of these processes. These representations, or "Kepler workflows" display the flow of data among discrete analysis and modeling components.

L

  • LCG - LHC Computing Grid
  • LHC - Large Hadron Collider

M

  • MAMS - Meta-Access Management System
  • MAPS - Middleware Action Plan and Strategy
  • MASSIVE - Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment
  • MMV - Multimedia Victoria, part of DBI

N

  • NeAT - National eResearch Architecture Taskforce
  • NeCTAR - National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources
  • NeSC - UK National e-Science Centre
  • NCRIS - National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

P

  • PfC - Platforms for Collaboration, and NCRIS Capability that has spawned AeRIC, ANDS, ARCS, NeAT
  • PKI - Public Key Infrastructure - is a computer security mechanism for trusting third party user identities. The infrastructure is based on private and public keys, typically in certificates, that are managed by software at a central location together with other coordinated software at distributed locations in a trust network.

Q

  • QCIF - Queensland CyberInfrastructure Foundation

R

  • RDSI - Research Data Storage Infrastructure
  • RLI - Remote Lab Instrumentation
  • RQF - Research Quality Framework

S

  • Shibboleth - web based, federated identity management implemented through OASIS
  • SAML - Security Assertion Markup Language
  • Semantic Web - facilitates understanding of the vast amount of information on the World Wide Web
  • SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
  • SRB - Storage Resource Broker
  • SRM - Storage Resource Manager

V

  • VBL - Virtual Beam Line
  • VeRCC - Victorian eResearch Coordinating Committee
  • VERNet - Victorian Education and Research Network
  • VeRSI - Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
  • VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
  • VO - Virtual Organisation
  • VOMS - Virtual Organisation Membership Service
  • VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
  • VPCC - VeRSI Program Coordinating Committee

W

  • Web 2.0 - web applications that promote interaction and collaboration

X

  • X.509 - certificate standard