Abbreviations
This page covers abbreviations used in all documents produced by the CITIZEN MEDIA project (both internal as well as external).
A
| A |
Austria |
| AAA |
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting |
| ACC |
Associated Candidate Countries |
| ADSL |
Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
| AJAX |
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| ALC |
Alcatel - project coordinator |
| AMA |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne - project contractor |
| AMF |
Action Message Format |
| AMFPHP |
Open source PHP implementation of the AMF |
| ANT |
ADSL Network Termination |
| AP |
Access Point |
| API |
Application Program Interface |
| AS |
Associated States |
| AS |
Action Scipt |
| ASAM |
Advanced Services Access Manager |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider |
| ASR |
Automated Speech Recognition |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| A/V |
Audio Visual |
| AVMS |
Audio Visual Media Services Directive |
| AVF |
Active Streaming Format |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleave |
B
| B |
Belgium |
| B2C |
Business-to-Business |
| B2C |
Business-to-Consumer |
| BER |
Bit Error Rate |
| BF |
Buntes Fernsehen |
| BIND |
Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
| BM |
Business Models |
| BBM |
Business Blueprint Model |
| B-TV |
Broadcast Television |
C
| CA |
Conditional Access |
| CASP |
Context Aware Service Platform |
| CSCF |
Call Session Control Function |
| CDN |
Content Delivery Networks |
| CM |
CITIZEN MEDIA |
| CMS |
Content Management System |
| CO |
Cologne (testbed) |
| CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
| CPN |
Customer Premises Network |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CRS |
Component Requirements Specification |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CST |
Content Selection Tool |
| CTR |
Click-Through Rates |
| CW |
Cognative Walkthrough |
D
| D |
Germany |
| DB |
Database |
| DBMS |
Database Management System |
| DDC |
Digital Content Creation |
| DIY |
Do-It-Yourself |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DLNA |
Digital Living Network Alliance |
| DMCA |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| DNS |
Domain Name System |
| DRM |
Digital Rights Management |
| DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSLAM |
Digital Subscriber Access Multiplexer |
| DTT |
Digital Terrestial Television |
| DOM |
Document Object Model (W3C) |
| DOS |
Denial Of Service |
| DVB |
Digital Video Broadcasting |
| DVB-IPI |
DVB - Internet Protocol Infrastructure |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disk |
| DVR |
Digital Video Recorder |
E
| E |
Spain |
| ECG |
Electronic Content Guide |
| ENG |
Engerwitzdorf (testbed) |
| EPG |
Electronic Program Guide |
| ESM |
Experience Sampling Method |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| EU |
European Union |
| EXT |
External |
F
| F |
France |
| FLEX |
Development Framework by Adobe |
| FLV |
Flash Video |
| FMCG |
Fast Moving Consumer Goods |
| FMS |
Flash Media Server |
| FP6 |
Sixth Framework Programme |
| FP7 |
Seventh Framework Programme |
| FPS |
First Person Shooters |
| FT |
France Telecom - project contractor |
| FTE |
Full time employee |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FTPS |
FTP over SSH |
| FTTB |
Fibre to the building |
G
| GA |
General Assembly |
| Gbit |
Gigabit (= 1.000.000.000 bit) |
| GB |
Gigabyte (=1.000.000.000 byte) |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format (file name extension) |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GPS |
Global Positioning Satellite/System |
| GPU |
Graphics Processing Unit |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| GZ |
Compress file format |
H
| HCI |
Human Computer Interaction |
| HD |
High Definition |
| HD |
High Disk |
| HDTV |
High Definition Television |
| HE |
Heuristic Evaluation |
| HN |
Home Network |
| HNI |
Home Network Index |
| HSI |
High Speed Internet |
| HSS |
Home Subscriber Server |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HW |
Hardware |
| HUD |
Head-Up Display |
I
| I |
Italy |
| IAI |
Fraunhofer IAIS - project contractor |
| IBB |
IBBT - project contractor |
| ICT |
Information Communication Technology |
| I-CSCF |
Interrogating Call Session Control Function |
| ID |
Identity |
| IDT |
Innovation Diffusion Theory |
| IGMP |
Internet Group Management/Multicast Protocol |
| IPCA |
Integrated Project Consortium Agreement |
| IPTV |
Internet Protocol Television |
| ISAM |
Intelligence Service Access Manager |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
| IM |
Instant Messenger |
| IMS |
IP Multimedia Subsystem |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IP |
Integrated Project (depending on context) |
| IPR |
Intellectual Property Rights |
| IPTV |
Internet Protocol Television |
| IRS |
Interface Requirements Specification |
| ISAM |
Intelligent Services Access Manager |
| IST |
Information Society Technologies |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| ISTAG |
IST Advisory Group |
| ITV |
Interactive Television |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
J
| JPEG |
Joint Pictures Expert Group |
| JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
| J2ME |
Java 2 Micro Edition |
| JVM |
Java Virtual Machine |
K
L
| LAB |
Laboratory |
| LAMP |
Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP environment |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
M
| M1 |
Last day of the first month of the project |
| M30 |
Last day of the 30th month of the project |
| M3D |
Media - 3D toolbox |
| MAM |
Marcus Miletich - project contractor |
| MAMP |
Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP |
| MB |
MegaByte |
| MCRM |
Metadata Creation - Retrieval Module |
| MES |
Metadata Enrich System |
| MMAPI |
Mobile Media API |
| MMOG |
Massively Multiplayer Online Game |
| MMP |
MultiModal interface Platform |
| MRT |
Media Richness Theory |
| MVC |
Model View Controller |
| MPEG |
Moving Pictures Expert Group |
| MP3 |
MPEG 1 audio layer 3 |
| MP4 |
File format to contain the media information of an MPEG-4 |
| MPEG2-TS |
MPEG2 Transport Stream |
| MPEG-4 |
Open standard format for audio / video data |
| MPEG-7 |
Open standard format for audio / video metadata |
| MPLS |
Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| MRCP |
Media Resource Control Protocol |
| MRCPv2 |
Media Resource Control Protocol version 2 |
| MS |
Member States |
| MXF |
Material eXchange Format |
N
| N |
Norway |
| N/A |
Not Applicable |
| NAP |
Network Access Provider |
| NFS |
Network File System |
| NSP |
Network Service Provider |
| NDS |
NDS Technologies - project contractor |
| NEC |
NetCologne - project contractor |
| NL |
Netherlands |
| NEM |
Networked and Electronic Media |
| NGN |
Next Generation Networks |
| NPVR |
Networked Personal Video Recorder |
| NTSC |
National Television Standards Committee (television format) |
O
| ODBC |
Open Database Connectivity |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OLS |
Ordinary Least Squares |
| OMP |
Open Media Suite |
| OS |
Operating System |
| OS |
Oslo (testbed) |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model |
| OSGi |
Open Services Gateway Initiative |
| OWL |
Web Ontology Language |
P
| P2P |
Peer To Peer |
| PAL |
Phase Alternation Line (television format) |
| PB |
Pbyte, Petabyte (=1.000.000 GB) |
| P-CSCF |
Proxy Call Session Control Function |
| PEST |
Political/legal, Economic, Social and Technological |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PCM |
Pulse Code Modulation |
| PCMA |
Pulse Code Modulation with "A law" companding |
| PCMU |
Pulse Code Modulation with "Mu law" companding |
| PCS |
Personal Content Search |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PEOU |
Perceived Ease Of Use |
| PHP |
Hypertext Preporcessor, formerly Personal Home Page to Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PITCH |
Portofolio Innovation Check |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
| PMP |
Portable Mulitmedia Player |
| POPD |
Practice Oriented Product Design |
| PTA |
Proxy Technology Assessment |
| PPP |
Public - Private - Partnerships |
| PSDD |
Product System Design Description |
| PSS |
Product System Specification |
| PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PU |
Public |
| PU |
Perceive Usefulness |
| P2P |
Peer-To-Peer |
Q
R
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RAR |
RAR Roshal Archive (WinRAR compressed file format; file extension) |
| RAID |
Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RIA |
Rich Internet Applicaitons |
| RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
| RFC |
Request For Comments |
| RGB |
Red-Green-Blue (color model) |
| RGP |
Role-Playing Games |
| RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
| RTD |
Research Technological Development activities |
| RTMP |
Real Time Messaging Protocol |
| RTP |
Real Time Protocol |
| RTSP |
Real-Time Streaming Protocol |
| RUP |
Rational Unified Process |
S
| SaaS |
Software as a Service |
| SALT |
Speech Application Language Tools |
| SAT |
Satellite |
| S-CSCF |
Server Call Session Control Function |
| SEC |
Social-Economic Calendar |
| SDH |
Synchronous Digital Hieararchy |
| SDK |
Software Development Kit |
| SDSL |
also SHDSL, Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
| SI |
Service Infromation |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SIN |
SINNTEF - project contractor |
| SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
| SDK |
Software Development Kit |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLES |
Suse Linux Enterprise Server |
| SME |
Small and Medium Enterprise |
| SMIL |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMPTE |
Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers |
| SMS |
Short Message Service |
| SNA |
Social Network Adaptor |
| SNS |
Social Network System |
| SNS+ |
Social Network System plus |
| SOA |
Service-Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SPSS |
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences |
| SPT |
Social Presence Theory |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SRGS |
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification |
| SSH |
Secure Shell |
| SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
| SSML |
Speech Synthesis Markup Language |
| STB |
Set Top Box |
| SUS |
System Usability Scale |
| SW |
Software |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats |
T
| TB |
also TByte, Terabyte (= 1.000 GB) |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| ToC |
Table of Content |
| TAM |
Technology Acceptance Model |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TID |
Telefonica - project contractor |
| TKA |
Telekom Austria - project contractor |
| ToU |
Terms of Use |
| TNO |
TNO - project contractor |
| TTS |
Text To Speech |
| TV |
Television |
U
| UA |
User Acceptance |
| UCD |
User-centred design |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UGC |
User-Generated Content |
| UGT |
Users and Gratification Theory |
| UIM |
Usability Inspection Methods |
| UML |
Unified Modeling Language |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| UMPC |
Ultra Mobile Personal Computer |
| UOC |
University of Cologne - project contractor |
| UOL |
University of Leuven - project contractor |
| UOS |
University of Salzburg - project contractor |
| UPnP |
Universal Plug and Play |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| USA |
United States of America |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| UTAUT |
Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology |
| UX |
User Experience |
V
| VAW |
Waveform Audio (file name extension) |
| V-CC |
Video Control Centre |
| VDSL |
Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line |
| VLAN |
Virtual Local Area Network |
| VNO |
Virtual Network Operator |
| VoD |
Video On Demand |
| VoIP |
Voice over Internet Protocol |
| VPLS |
Virtual Private LAN Service |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VRM |
Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park S.P.A. - project contractor |
| VSE |
Vertical Search Engine |
W
| WAR |
Web Archive |
| WAMP |
Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP5 |
| WAN |
Wireless Area Network |
| WIFI |
Wireless Fidelity |
| WiMax |
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WIMP |
Window Icons Pointers and Menus |
| WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
| WP |
Work Package |
| WMS |
Windows Media Server |
| WMV |
Windows Media Video |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
X
| xDSL |
X Digital Subscriber Line |
| XHML |
Extended Hypertext Markup Language |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
| XML RPC |
Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call |
| XP |
Extreme Programming |
| XSLT |
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation |
Y
Z
1,2,3 ..
| 3D |
Three dimensional |
| 3GPP |
Multimedia container format defined by 3GPP |
