TERM

DEFINITION and/or DESCRIPTION

API

Application Programming Interface – a method of calling other software components locally. (Compare to SOAP which uses XML and allows invocation remotely).

APLAWS

Accessible Personalised Local Authority Websites. Project lead by LB Camden

BASE.gov

Pathfinder Project with WSCC, Knowsley, Leeds and Lewisham

CNet+

Contact Net plus (WSCC pathfinder)

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

CUPID

Customer Unique Process Identifier – a deliverable from the LEAP consortium projects.

DC

Dublin Core. Metadata standard elements, adopted by the eGMS

DTD

Document Type Definition – an older version of XML schemas, which perform the same service

e-form

Electronic form

e-GIF

electronic Government Interoperability Framework

e-GMF

electronic Government Metadata Framework

e-GMS

electronic Government Metadata Standard

e-Government

"electronic" government. In the context used by central and local government this refers to re-building processes based on technological opportunity (it is NOT just using the Internet)

GSI

Government Secure Intranet

IEG

Implementing Electronic Government

ICIS

Independent Combined Information Services

J2EE

Java 2 Enterprise Edition. A set of standards and specifications that enable distributed computing. Additionally the term is used to describe the collection of API’s that support J2EE.

JUG

Joined Up Government

LEAP

Life Events Access Project

Metadata

Metadata is information about information, in web-terms it is ‘machine understandable information about web resources or other things’. Metadata makes it easier to manage or find information, be it in the form of web pages, electronic documents, paper files, databases, etc.

RDF

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) initiative for building the 'semantic web'

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol