BER | Basic Encoding Rules (ISO) |
BOF | Birds Of a Feather (informal discussion session) |
DISW | Distributed Indexing and Searching Workshop (this workshop) |
EID | Engine Identifier |
GILS | Government Information Locator Service |
PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selections (content rating standard) |
RDM | Resource Description Message (Netscape extension/wrapper to SOIF) |
REP | Robot Exclusion Protocol (aka "robots.txt", aka SRE) |
RFC | Request For Comments |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO standard) |
SOIF | Summary Object Interchange Format (defined by the Harvest Project) |
SRE | Standard for Robot Exclusion (aka "robots.txt", aka REP) |
TREC | Text Retrieval Conference (e.g., here's a recent Call For Participation) |
URC | Uniform Resource Characteristics (IETF) |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier (IETF. Also, Upper Respiratory Infection) |
URN | Uniform Resource Name (IETF) |
VSL | Virtual Software Library (c|net) |
Z39.50 | ISO application layer standard for network information retrieval |