eResearch Glossary
In addition to the glossary below a number of other collections of eResearch and related terms exist.
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
D
DART - Dataset Acquisition Accessibility & Annotation e-Research Technologies
dCache - disk pool management system
DEST - Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training Although the website is still up DEST has been replaced by DEWR
DEWR - Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
DIIRD - Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development
DPI - Department of Primary Industries
DPM - Disk Pool Manager
E
eRCC - National e-Research Coordinating Committee
eResearch - the use of ICT to enhance research. DEST definition
EGEE - Enabling Grids for 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
MMV - Multimedia Victoria, part of DIIRD
N
NeAT - National eResearch Architecture Taskforce
NeSC - UK National e-Science Centre
NCRIS - National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
P
PKI - Pubilc 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.
R
RQF - Research Quality Framework
P
PfC - Platforms for Collaboration, and NCRIS Capability that has spawned AeRIC, ANDS, ARCS, NeAT
S
Shibboleth - web based, federated identity management implemented through OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language).
SRB - Storage Resource Broker
SRM - Storage Resource Manager
V
VBL - Virtual BeamLine
VeRCC - Victorian eResearch Coordinating Committee
VERNet - Victorian Education and Research Network
VeRSI - Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
VO - Virtual Organisation
VOMS - Virtual Organisation Membership Service
VPAC - Victorian Partnershop for Advanced Computing
VPCC - VeRSI Program Coordinating Committee
X
X.509 - certificate standard