| AES | Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee |
| ADL | Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative |
| AGLS | AGLS |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| AICTEC | Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee |
| ASIC | AICTEC Standards and Interoperability Committee |
| ATHENS | Athens Access Management System |
| CAMiLEON | Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds Emulating the Old on the New |
| CEDARS | CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives |
| CETIS | Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards |
| CETIS Encyclopedia | CETIS Encyclopedia |
| CMI | Cambridge MIT Institute |
| CORDRA | Content Object Repository Discovery and Resolution Architecture |
| DCMI | Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
| DPC | Digital Preservation Coalition |
| Dspace | Dspace |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| EAD | Encoded Archival Description |
| ECHO DEP | ECHO Depository Project |
| EdNA | EdNA Metadata Standard |
| EDiNA | EDiNA |
| EduPerson | EDUCAUSE eduPerson |
| ERRoL | Extensible Repository Resource Locators |
| EXIF | Exchangeable Image File Format |
| FAIR | Focus on Access to Institutional Resources |
| Fedora | Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| HaIRST | Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed |
| HANDLE | HANDLE System |
| IEEE LTSC | IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee |
| IMS DRI | IMS Global Learning Consortium Digital Repositories Specification |
| JISC | Joint Information Systems Committee |
| JISC DNER | JISC Distributed National Electronic Resource |
| JISC DRP | Joint Information Systems Committee Digital Repositories Program |
| JORUM | JORUM |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| LOM | IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata |
| METS | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Syntax |
| MCEETYA | Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs |
| MIMAS | Manchester Information & Associated Services |
| MIX | Metadata for Images in XML schema |
| MLE | Managed Learning Environment |
| MOD-OAI | mod-oai Project |
| MODS | Metadata Object Description Schema |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
| MrSID | Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database |
| NDLTD | Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations |
| NSDL | National Science Digital Library |
| OAI | Open Archives Initiative |
| OAI PMH | Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System (alternate OAIS web site) |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OAIster | OAIster (University of Michigan) |
| ODRL | Open Digital Rights Language |
| OJS | Open Journal Systems |
| OKI | Open Knowledge Initiative |
| OSI | Open Society Institute |
| PALS | Publishing and Library/Learning Solutions |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PKP | Public Knowledge Project |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PREMIS | Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies |
| ROMEO | Romeo Project (alternate ROMEO web site) |
| RSS | RDF Site Summary |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SAKAI | SAKAI |
| SCORM | Sharable Content Object Reference Model |
| SelfArchive | SelfArchive |
| SEMANTIC WEB | The Semantic Web |
| SHERPA | Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access |
| SHIBBOLETH | Shibboleth Project |
| SIMILE | Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments |
| SMIL | Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SRW/SRU | Search/Retrieve Web Service & Search/Retrieve URL |
| TEI | Text Encoding Initiative |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| VRA | Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee |
| VLE | Virtual Learning Environment |
| WAV | Wave File Format (digital audio) |
| XACML | eXtensible Access Control Markup Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language |
