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| ACA | Australian Coastal Atlas [go to page] |
| ACORN | Applications, Catalogues, Operators/models, Repositories of data, all on the Network. Describes the interoperable system architecture proposed by the OpenGIS Consortium and used in the CANRI framework. |
| ANZLIC | Australia New Zealand Land Information Council [look up] |
| Application | A website which provides a discrete service (also known as a function, business process, life event or user activity). In other words, the application gathers the resources a user needs to do a specific task and guides him or her through the process. [go to page] |
| ASDD | Australian Spatial Data Directory [go to site] |
| ASDI | Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure [look up] |
| AURISA | Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Inc. [go to site] |
| Australia New Zealand Land Information Council | The peak council for public sector spatial data management in Australia and New Zealand. [go to site] |
| Australian Coastal Atlas | The Australian Coastal Atlas (ACA) was initially a component of the Commonwealth Coastal Policy (May 1995) and is now a major component of the Coasts and Clean Seas Initiative (July 1997). It is an electronic atlas linking data about the coastal and marine environment available through the World Wide Web. The Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) coordinates the development of the Australian Coastal Atlas. [go to page] |
| Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure | The Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure is a national initiative to provide better access for all Australians to essential geographic information (spatial data). The primary objective of the ASDI is to ensure that users of spatial data will be able to acquire consistent data sets to meet their requirements, even though the data is collected and maintained by different authorities. The national infrastructure helps ensure all such authorities concern themselves with the national interest, thereby maximising governments' return on investment in data collection and maintenance. [go to site] |
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| Base data | The basis on which natural resource data can be overlaid, such as a defined portion of the earth's surface represented by a topographic map. |
| BIWG | Biodiversity Information Working Group [go to page] |
| Business Information System Scoping Studies | Studies undertaken to investigate, analyse and make recommendations on the feasibility of implementing proposed information management projects. |
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| CANRI | Community Access to Natural Resources Information [go to page] |
| CANRI Themes | CANRI addresses six themes: coordination; data; systems; quality & standards; products & services; and communications. |
| Catalog | A directory or list of resources of a particular type. Examples are catalogs of online data, people and organisations. See also OpenGIS Catalog. [look up] |
| Catchment Blueprint | Plans currently being produced to guide the long-term management of natural resources in NSW on a catchment basis. [go to site] |
| CCA | Comprehensive Coastal Assessment |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CIMC | Coastal Information Management Committee [go to page] |
| CLIO | Community Landcare Information Online [go to site] |
| CMB | Catchment Management Board [go to site] |
| COAG | Council of Australian Governments |
| Common Spatial Gateway Interface | The legacy protocol used by CANRI to connect to data servers. Now being replaced by OpenGIS Web Map Server (WMS) and Web Feature Server (WFS) specifications. [look up] |
| connect.nsw | Launched in December 1997, connect.nsw is the NSW Government's strategy to use the Internet and related technologies to improve information dissemination and service delivery to the New South Wales public. [go to site] |
| Core data | Data which an agency nominates as fundamental to its business. |
| CRG | Community Reference Group [go to page] |
| CSGI | Common Spatial Gateway Interface [look up] |
| Custodian | The agency accountable for negotiating and ensuring the care and maintenance of a clearly defined portion of natural resources information within the public sector. |
| Custodianship | The responsibility to ensure that data is collected and maintained according to specifications and priorities determined by consultation with data users, and made available to them under conditions and in a format that conform with agreed standards and policies. [go to site] |
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| Dataset | A homogeneous collection of data records managed as a single entity. |
| Distributed | Located on different computers which communicate over a network. |
| DITM | NSW Department of Information Technology and Management [go to site] |
| DLWC | NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation [go to site] |
| DMR | NSW Department of Mineral Resources [go to site] |
| DUAP | NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning [go to site] |
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| e-business | Electronic Business |
| e-commerce | Electronic commerce. Conducting commercial transactions electronically, particularly over the Internet. |
| EoI | Expression of Interest [go to page] |
| EPA | Environment Protection Authority NSW [go to site] |
| ESD | Ecologically Sustainable Development |
| Extranet | An intranet that is partially accessible to authorised outsiders. |
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| gazetteer | A comprehensive, authoritative list of geographic features and their spatial coordinates. |
| GDA | Geocentric Datum of Australia [look up] |
| GEMET | General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus [look up] |
| General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus | Developed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and others to serve the needs of environmental information systems, GEMET's 5,400 generalised environmental terms and their definitions support validated indexing, cataloguing and retrieval within environmental information services as well as translation between 19 European languages. [go to site] |
| Geocentric Datum of Australia | The GDA is a standard that defines the surveying and mapping coordinate system adopted in Australia. |
| geocode | To use a spatial feature name or address to produce a mappable location expressed in spatial coordinates. |
| Geographic Information System | A computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, ie. data identified according to their locations. Practitioners also regard the total GIS as including operating personnel and the data that go into the system. |
| Geography Markup Language | An XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information, including both the spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features. [go to site] |
| GILS | Global Information Locator Service [look up] |
| GIS | Geographic Information System [look up] |
| Global Information Locator Service | An open, low-cost and scalable standard for governments, companies or other organisations to help searchers find collections of information, as well as specific information in the collections. [go to site] |
| GML | Geography Markup Language [look up] |
| Goal area | An "important group" term in which a variety of related activities can be placed together to achieve one or more strategies and outcomes. |
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| HITS | Hunter Integrated Telemetry System [go to site] |
| HNCMT | Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust [go to site] |
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| ICMISS | Integrated Community Mapping and Information Support System [go to page] |
| IM&T | Information Management and Technology |
| IM&T Blueprint | Published in February 1997, the Blueprint is the strategy for the NSW Government to maximise the potential of its information technology resources. |
| Interoperability | The ability of independent, distributed software components to operate together as part of a larger system. |
| Intranet | A network based on TCP/IP protocols (an Internet) belonging to an organisation, accessible only by the organisation's members, employees, or others with authorisation. |
| iPlan | A state-wide planning information network that delivers integrated computer based, location focussed planning information and services to the community of NSW. [go to site] |
| ISO | International Standards Organisation [go to site] |
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| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity [go to site] |
| JSP | Java Server Pages [go to site] |
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| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [go to site] |
| Lgov | Lgov NSW, formerly Local Government and Shires Associations (LGSA) of NSW, represents the Local Government Association of NSW and the Shires Association of NSW. [go to site] |
| LGSA | Local Government and Shires Associations. Now known as Lgov NSW. [look up] |
| LPI | Land and Property Information NSW [go to site] |
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| MDBC | Murray Darling Basin Commission [go to site] |
| MET Online | Metadata Entry Tool Online, under development as a CANRI project 2001-2002. [go to page] |
| Metadata | "Data about data"; describes the content, quality, currency and availability of data. Essential for discovering data and determining its suitability for a particular use. [go to site] |
| MWG | NSW Metadata Working Group [go to site] |
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| NAP | National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality [go to site] |
| Natural Resources | Land, water, biodiversity, vegetation, air, soil and related resources. |
| NCC | Nature Conservation Council of NSW [go to site] |
| Network | Technical, organisational and inter-personal connections to extend the CANRI framework and support the program’s goals. Includes computer hardware, software and Internet infrastructure, as well as meetings, forums and other communication/marketing outcomes. [go to page] |
| NLWRA | National Land and Water Resources Audit [go to site] |
| NPWS | NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service [go to site] |
| NRA | Natural Resource Atlas [go to page] |
| NRDD | NSW Natural Resources Data Directory [go to page] |
| NRIMS | Natural Resources Information Management Strategy [go to site] |
| NSW | New South Wales [go to site] |
| NSW Natural Resources Data Directory | The NSW Natural Resources Data Directory is a catalogue of a wide range of natural resource information for New South Wales. The information described (called data sets) covers flora, fauna, land, water and air, and is primarily held by government agencies. [go to page] |
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| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity [go to site] |
| OGC | OpenGIS Consortium [look up] |
| OIT | Office of Information Technology [go to site] |
| OpenGIS | The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of companies, government agencies and universities developing publicly available geoprocessing specifications. Open interfaces and protocols defined by OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT, and empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. [go to site] |
| OpenGIS Catalog | OpenGIS Catalog Interface Implementation Specification. [go to site] |
| Operator | An online software program used by a number of web applications to perform a discrete service, such as transforming or modelling data in some useful way. [go to page] |
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| PIG | Program Implementation Group [go to page] |
| PlanFIRST | The NSW Government's initiative to modernise the NSW plan making system. [go to site] |
| Portal | A web page which provides access to a range of sites or information resources for a specific audience group. [go to page] |
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| RACAC | Resource and Conservation Assessment Council [go to site] |
| Rational Unified Process | RUP® is a Web-enabled software engineering process that enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members. [go to site] |
| RBG | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney [go to site] |
| Repository of data | The shared pool of data (often spatial or map data) which is accessed by CANRI websites. Each dataset in the pool is served and managed directly by the creator or custodian of that data. [go to page] |
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| SCA | Sydney Catchment Authority [go to site] |
| SCMCC | State Catchment Management Coordinating Committee |
| SCOTS | Standards-based Commercial Off-The-Shelf (software) |
| SoE | State of Environment reporting [go to site] |
| SPADE | Soil Profile Attribute Data Environment [go to site] |
| State Water Monitoring Strategy | The State Water Monitoring Strategy will provide a coordinated and cost-effective approach to water monitoring in NSW. It will establish a procedural framework of protocols and quality assurance provisions by which water monitoring in NSW will be conducted. [go to site] |
| SWMS | State Water Monitoring Strategy [look up] |
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| tbc | To be confirmed |
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| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration [look up] |
| UML | Unified Modelling Language [look up] |
| Unified Modeling Language | The Unified Modelling Language is the industry-standard language for specifying, visualising, constructing, and documenting the artefacts of software systems. It simplifies the complex process of software design, making a "blueprint" for construction. [go to site] |
| Universal Description, Discovery and Integration | A platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses and integrating business services using the Internet, as well as an operational registry that is available today. [go to site] |
| Use case | A use-case model consists of actors, use cases, and relations among them. Actors represent everything that must exchange information with the system, including what are typically called users. When an actor uses the system, the system performs a use case. A good use case is a sequence of transactions that yields a measurable result of value for an actor. The collection of use cases is the system's complete functionality. [go to site] |
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| W3C | The World Wide Web Consortium sets standards for HTML and other key web technology. [go to site] |
| Web Feature Server | OpenGIS Consortium specification for an online service that supports insert, update, delete, query and discovery operations on geographic features using HTTP as the distributed computing platform [go to site] |
| Web Map Server | OpenGIS Consortium specification for an online service that provides maps in one of a number of standard image formats. [go to site] |
| Web Services Description Language | An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. [go to site] |
| WebMap Composer | WebMap Composer is a software product from Social Change Online for creating interactive online maps without requiring data management or interface programming. [go to site] |
| WFS | Web Feature Server [look up] |
| Whole-of-government | Includes Local, State and Commonwealth governments and government agencies, including multi-agency organisations |
| WMC | WebMap Composer [look up] |
| WMS | Web Map Server [look up] |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language [look up] |
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| XML | The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. [go to site] |
| XML Schema | XML Schemas express shared vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people. They provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML documents. [go to site] |
