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International Property Glossary |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider. Companies that manage and distribute software-based
services to customers across a network. |
| Asset |
Media element for digitisation, e.g. photograph, text, video, graphic |
| AIMIA |
Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association |
| DBX |
Digital Book eXchange |
| DOI |
Digital Object Identifier. An identification system for intellectual
property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI
Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry. See www.doi.org |
| DRM |
Digital Rights Management |
| IMPRIMATUR |
Intellectual Multimedia Property Rights Model and Terminology for Universal
Reference (a European Union ESPRIT project). |
| IP |
Intellectual Property |
| Java |
An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
Java code can run on most computers because it utilises interpreter software
called Java Virtual Machine which has been developed for Windows, UNIX
and the Macintosh OS. For this reason it is widely used to provide applications
that run over the internet. |
| MP3 |
An abbreviation (actually the filename extension) for MPEG audio layer
3. This is a format for the compression of audio signals. Because MP3
files are comparatively small they can be easily distributed via the Internet. |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format, a proprietary file format developed by Adobe |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language, a system for organizing the formatting
documents. SGML is not a style of formatting, but a set of rules for tagging
elements in a document so that they can be formatted. |
| W3C |
The World Wide Web Consortium, the body responsible for standards development
in information display over the internet. See www.w3c.org |
| WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organisation. See www.wipo.org
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| XML |
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is a pared-down version
of SGML developed by the W3C, for use with for Web documents. |
| Partner Sites: |
A huge collection of webmaster
scripts and resources. |
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