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Acronyms

FAO Divisions

CIO

Chief Information Officer Division

CSC

Conference and Council Affairs Division

OCP

Office for Communication, Partnerships and Advocacy

OEK

Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension

 

Internet Service Provider

Others

AgMES

Agricultural Metadata Element Set

 

API

Application Programming Interface

 

ASP

Active Server Page

 

CDR

Corporate Document Repository

 

CDS

Community Directory Service

An application framework developed to facilitate creation of multilingual, thematic portals and communities of practice.

CFML

ColdFusion Markup Language

 

DC

Dublin Core

 

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

 

DTP

Desktop Publishing

 

DWS

Distributed Web site management System

A Content management system software which automatically creates pages based on a predefined templates. DWS can be customized to the requirements of the client.

EDPR

Electronic Document Processing Request

 

EIMS

Electronic Information Management Services

The system adds publications automatically to Web sites once they have been published in the Corporate Document Repository.

EMF

Enhanced Meta File

 

EMPRES

Emergency Prevention System for Trans-boundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases

 

EPS

Encapsulated Postscript file

 

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

 

FAOTERM

FAO Terminology System

 

FORIS

Forestry Information System

An innovative, custom-designed content management system whichsystem that links subject pages with FAO's forest-related databases for the generation of continuously updated information.

GIEWS

Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture

 

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

 

GTOS

Global Terrestrial Observing System

 

HEX

Hexadecimal

 

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

 

IA

Information Architecture

 

IP

Internet Protocol

 

ISP

 

ISO

Information Systems Officers 

ISOs are CIO Divisional staff, out-posted to Departments and Offices of the Organization. They jointly plan and coordinate the delivery of CIO information systems services to the assigned area of business, ensuring that technical solutions meet business needs. For more information see Information Systems Contacts.

JPEG

Joint Photographics Experts Group

 

JSP

Java Server Pagepage

 

KIDS

Key Indicator Data System

 

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

 

NEMS

News and Events Management System

The system allows users without HTML knowledge to post news and events stories on a Web site.

OTC

Office Technology Coordinator

 

PDF

Portable Document Format

 

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

 

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

 

PWB

Programme of Work and Budget

 

RTF

Rich Text Format

 

SPFS

Special Programme for Food Security

 

SQL

Structured Query Language

 

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

 

TECA

Technology for Agriculture

 

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

 

TOR

Terms of Reference

 

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

 

UTF

Unicode Transformation Format

 

WAICENT

World Agricultural Information Centre

 

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

 

WMF

Windows Meta File

 

XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

 

XML

Extensible Markup Language

 

XSL

Extensible Style Sheet Language