Acronyms
The full forms of all acronyms used in the thesis. In this HTML version, every acronym in the text (shown with a dotted underline) links to this list, and hovering over an acronym with a mouse displays its full form.
- 3D
- three-dimensional
- A/V
- Audio/Video
- AAC
- American Art Collaborative
- AACR
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
- AAT
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- ABox
- Assertion Box
- AHRC
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- ANT
- Actor-Network Theory
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- AR
- Augmented reality
- ARK
- Archival Resource Key
- AS
- Activity Streams
- ASR
- Automatic speech recognition
- ASV
- The Atlas of Swiss Folklore
- BibFrame
- Bibliographic Framework
- BnF
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- BO
- Boundary Object
- CARE
- Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics
- CAS
- Cultural Anthropology Switzerland
- CCO
- Cataloging Cultural Objects
- CDWA
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art
- CERN
- European Organization for Nuclear Research
- CH
- Cultural Heritage
- CHAOSS
- Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software
- CHI
- Cultural Heritage Institution
- CHIT
- Yale's Cultural Heritage Information Technology
- CIDOC
- ICOM International Committee for Documentation
- CIDOC-CRM
- CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
- CLI
- Command-line interface
- CLIR
- Council on Library and Information Resources
- CNI
- Coalition for Networked Information
- CoCo
- IIIF Coordinating Committee
- CoP
- Communites of Practice
- CORS
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- CRM-SIG
- CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group
- CSC
- Yale's Collections and Scholarly Communications
- CSV
- Comma-separated values
- DAM
- Digital asset management
- DaSCH
- Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities
- DBIS
- Databases and Information Systems
- DH
- Digital Humanities
- DHLab
- University of Basel's Digital Humanities Lab
- DICOM
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
- DL
- Description logic
- DLF
- Digital Library Federation
- DMSTech
- Digital Manuscript Technical Working Group
- DOLCE
- Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering
- DSP
- DaSCH Service Platform
- EAD
- Encoded Archival Description
- EDM
- Europeana Data Model
- EODEM
- Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model
- ETL
- Extract, Transform, Load
- Exec
- IIIF Executive Committee
- FAIR
- Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
- FDO
- FAIR Digital Object
- FLOSS
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software
- FOL
- First-order logic
- FORTH
- Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas
- FRBR
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
- G3S
- University of Basel's Graduate School of Social Sciences
- GAFAM
- Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft
- GB
- Gigabytes
- GLAM
- Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
- GND
- Gemeinsame Normdatei
- GUI
- Graphical user interface
- HAL
- JSON Hypertext Application Language
- HIMMS
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- HKB
- Bern Academy of the Arts
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- HTR
- Handwritten Text Recognition
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
- ICA
- International Council on Archives
- ICBS
- International Committee of the Blue Shield
- ICOM
- International Council on Museums
- ICOMOS
- International Council on Monuments and Sites
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IFLA
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- IIIF
- International Image Interoperability Framework
- IIIF-C
- IIIF Consortium
- ILS
- Integrated Library System
- IRI
- Internationalized Resource Identifier
- ISAD(G)
- General International Standard Archival Description
- ITS
- Yale's Information Technology Services
- JSON
- JavaScript Object Notation
- JSON-LD
- JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data
- JSONL
- JSON Lines
- KB
- Knowledge Base
- KG
- Knowledge Graph
- KOS
- Knowledge Organisation Systems
- KR
- Knowledge Representation
- LANL
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LCSH
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- LGBTQ+
- lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more
- LIDO
- Lightweight Information Describing Objects
- LINCS
- Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship
- LLM
- Large Language Models
- LoA
- Levels of Abstraction
- LoC
- Library of Congress
- LOD
- Linked Open Data
- LOUD
- Linked Open Usable Data
- LRM
- IFLA Library Reference Model
- MARC
- Machine-Readable Cataloging
- METS
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
- ML
- Machine Learning
- MODS
- Metadata Object Description Schema
- N2T
- Name-To-Thing
- NDL
- National Diet Library
- NER
- Named Entity Recognition
- NLP
- Natural Language Processing
- OA
- Open access
- OAC
- Open Annotation Collaboration
- OAI-ORE
- Open Archives Initiative Object Exchange and Reuse
- OAI-PMH
- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- OAIS
- Open Archival Information System
- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition
- OSD
- OpenSeadragon
- OWL
- Web Ontology Language
- PB
- Petabytes
- PI
- Philosophy of Information
- PIA
- Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives
- PID
- Persistent Identifier
- PREMIS
- PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
- R2RML
- RDB to RDF Mapping Language
- RAIL
- Responsible AI Licenses
- RDA
- Resource Description and Access
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- RDFS
- RDF Schema
- REST
- Representational state transfer
- RFC
- Request for Comments
- RiC
- Records in Contexts
- RML
- RDF Mapping Language
- RTI
- Reflectance Transformation Imaging
- SARI
- Swiss Art Research Infrastructure
- SDI
- standard definition of (semantic) information
- SEO
- Search Engine Optimization
- SHACL
- Shapes Constraint Language
- SHARED
- Sustainable, Harvestable, Available, Reconciled, Enriched, Diverse
- SIPI
- Simple Image Interface Presentation
- SK
- Situated Knowledges
- SKOS
- Simple Knowledge Organization System
- SLMS
- System-LoA-Model-Structure
- SNA
- Social Network Analysis
- SNSF
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- SOA
- service-oriented architecture
- SPARQL
- SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
- SSFS
- Swiss Society for Folklore Studies
- STEM
- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
- STS
- Science and Technology Studies
- TB
- Terabytes
- TBox
- Terminological Box
- TGN
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security
- TMS
- Gallery Systems' The Museum System
- TRC
- IIIF Technical Review Committee
- TSG
- Technical Specification Group
- ULAN
- Union List of Artist Names
- UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- URN
- Uniform Resource Name
- UV
- Universal Viewer
- UX
- User experience
- VIAF
- Virtual International Authority File
- VQA
- Visual Question Answering
- VR
- virtual reality
- VRA
- Visual Resource Association
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- WADM
- Web Annotation Data Model
- WEMI
- Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
- YCBA
- Yale Center for British Art
- YPM
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
- YUAG
- Yale University Art Gallery
- YUL
- Yale University Library