CoRD – Collection of Raw Data

GLOSSAR – GLOSSARY – GLOSSAIRE


(Last update: 14/06/02 )

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  . ADM Analytical Data Management Group
. ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
. AFNOR [FR] Association Française de Normalisation
http://www.afnor.fr/
. ANC [FR] Administration Nationale Compétente
CNA
. ANSI American National Standards Institute
http://www.ansi.org/
. AP [DE] Auskunftspflichtiger
PSI
. API Application Programming Interface
. ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
. ASI [DE] Automatisierte Sachbearbeitung der Intrahandelsstatistik
Automated Intrastat processing system at StBA, Germany
. ASP [DE] Ausschuß für das Statistische Programm
SPC
. ASQC American Society for Quality
. ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
. AUTACK Authentication Acknowledgement
EDIFACT message for secured authentication and acknowledgement
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. B2B Business to Business
. B2C Business to Consumer
. BAPI Business Application Program Interface
. BASDA Business Accounting Software Developers Association (UK)
. BBS Bulletin Board System
. BCE [FR] Banque Centrale Européenne
ECB
. BEI [FR] Banque Européenne d'Investissement
EIB
. BIS Bank of International Settlements
http://www.bis.org
. BISE [FR] Base d’Information Statistique de l’Entreprise
SERT concept
. BLAISE Statistical software system developed by Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
. BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
. BNB [FR] Banque Nationale de Belgique, Bruxelles
http://www.bnb.be
. BOP Balance of Payments
. BOPBNK, BOPCUS, BOPDIR, BOPINF, BOPSTA BOP*** family of EDIFACT messages, subsets of GESMES
. BOV Business Operational View (in ebXML)
. BPR Business Process Reengineering
. BTB (B-t-B) Business to Business
. BTC (B-t-C) Business to Consumer
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. CA Computer Assisted … (or: Computer Aided …)
. CAD Computer Assisted Design
. CADI Computer Assisted Data Input
. CAE Computer Assisted Engineering
. CAI Computer Assisted Interviewing
. CAM Computer Assisted Manufacturing
. CAP Computer Assisted Planning
. CAPI Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
. CAS Computer Assisted Selling
. CASE Computer Assisted Software Engineering
. CASI Computer Assisted Self Interviewing
. CASIC Computer Assisted Statistical Information Collection
. CATI Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
. CATS Computer Aided Training in Statistics
. CAWI Computer Assisted Web Interviewing
. CB Central Bank
. CBS [NL] Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
http://www.cbs.nl/
. CBS-IRIS IRIS
. CBSE Component Based Software Engineering
. CBT Computer Based Training
. CCE [FR] Commission des Communautés Européennes
CEC
. CCR [FR] Centre Commun de Recherche
JRC
. CD Compact Disc
. CD-ROM Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
. CE [FR] Communautés Européennes
EC
. CEC [EN] Commission of the European Communities (CEC)
[FR] Commission des Communautés Européennes (CCE)
[DE] Kommission der Europäische Gemeinschaften (KEG)
. CEFACT [EN] Centre for the Facilitation of Practices and Procedures for Administration, Commerce and Transport
[FR] Centre pour la facilitation des procédures et des pratiques dans l’administration, le commerce et les transports
http://www.unece.org/cefact/
. CEIES [FR] Comité consultatif Européen de l’Information statistique dans les domaines Économique et Social
[EN] European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres
[DE] Europäischer beratender Ausschuss für statistische Informationen im Wirtschafts-und Sozialbereich
. CELEX [EN] Inter-institutional system of computerized documentation on Community law
[FR] Système interinstitutionnel de documentation automatisée relative au droit communautaire
[DE] Interinstitutionelles System für die automatisierte Dokumentation über das Gemeinschaftsrecht
http://europa.eu.int/celex/
. CEN [FR] Comité Européen de Normalisation
[EN] European Committee for Standardisation
[DE] Europäisches Komitee für Normung
http://www.cenorm.be/
. CENELEC [FR] Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
[DE] Europäisches Komitee für elektrotechnische Normung
[EN] European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
http://www.cenelec.org/
. CERT CERT® Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cert.org/
. CES Conference of European Statisticians
. CGI Common Gateway Interface
. CIRCA Communication and Information Resources Centre Administrator
http://forum.europa.eu.int/
. CLASET Classification Exchange and Transfer message
EDIFACT message
. CMC Computer-Mediated Communication
. CN, CN8 [EN] Combined Nomenclature (at 8 digit level) (CN8)
[DE] Kombinierte Nomenklatur (auf der Ebene der 8-Steller) (KN8)
[FR] Nomenclature Combinée (à 8 positions) (NC8)
. CNA [EN] Competent National Administration (CNA)
[DE] Zuständige Nationale Stelle (ZNS)
[FR] Administration Nationale Compétente (ANC)
. COM Component Object Model
. COMEXT Eurostat’s reference database for foreign trade statistics
. CONTRL EDIFACT message
. CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
. CORD (CoRD) Collection of Raw Data
STNE Task Force
. CORDIS Community R&D Information Service
http://www.cordis.lu
. CPS [FR] Comité du Programme Statistique
SPC
. CSAQ Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaire
. CSO Central Statistics Office, Ireland
http://www.cso.ie/
. CSV Comma Separated Values
. CUSDEC Customs Declaration
EDIFACT message
. CUSDEC/EXSTAT EDIFACT message for the Extrastat return derived from CUSDEC
. CUSDEC/INSTAT EDIFACT message for the Intrastat return derived from CUSDEC
. CUSDEC/SEMDEC Single European Market Declaration
EDIFACT message derived from CUSDEC, used in UK for Intrastat declaration
. CUSPED Periodic customs declaration
EDIFACT message
. CUSRES Customs response
EDIFACT message
. CUSRES/INSRES EDIFACT message, response to CUSDEC/INSTAT and CUSDEC/EXSTAT, derived from CUSRES
. CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel
http://www.cwmforum.org/
. CWMI Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange
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. DATAMED Data Capturing and Interchange in Mediterranean Countries
R&D project
http://www.istat.it/datamed/datamed.htm
. DBF dBASE format
. DBMS [EN] Data Base Management Systems (DBMS)
[FR] Système intégré de Gestion de Bases de Données (SGBD)
[DE] Datenbank-Management-System (DBMS)
. DCOM Distributed Common Object Model
. DCRO Data Collection Responsible Officer
. DEB [FR] Déclaration des Echanges de Biens (Intrastat declaration) (France)
. DECT Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
. DESTATIS Statistisches Bundesamt - German statistical office
http://www.destatis.de/
. DGDDI [FR] Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects (France)
http://www.finances.gouv.fr/DGDDI/
. DIF Data Interchange Format
. DIN [DE] Deutsches Institut für Normung
German standards institute
. DISK/FAX Automatic disk reading system with integrated fax facility
EDICOM project
. DMR (EDIFACT) Data Maintenance Request
. DOSES Development Of Statistical Expert Systems
. DOSIS Development Of Statistical Information Systems
. DSIS Distributed Statistical Information Services
. DTD Document Type Definition
. DV [DE] Datenverarbeitung
. DVD Digital Versatile Disc
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. E-COMMERCE (eCommerce) Electronic Commerce
. E-EUROPE (eEurope) Initiative launched by the European Commission in December 1999
. E-MAIL [EN] Electronic Mail
[DE] Elektronische Post
[FR] Courrier électronique
. EBES European Board for EDI Standardisation
http://www.cenorm.be/ebes/
. EBXML (ebXML) Electronic Business XML
http://www.ebxml.org/
. EC [EN] European Communities (EC)
[DE] Europäische Gemeinschaften (EG)
[FR] Communautés Européennes (CE)
. ECB [EN] European Central Bank (ECB)
[FR] Banque Centrale Européenne (BCE)
[DE] Europäische Zentralbank (EZB)
. ECE (UN/ECE) Economic Commission for Europe
. EDC [EN] Electronic Data Capture
[DE] Elektronische Datenerfassung
[FR] Saisie électronique de données
. EDCS Electronic Data Capture Service, United Kingdom
. EDI [EN] Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
[FR] Echange de Données Informatisé (EDI)
[DE] Datenfernübertragung (DFÜ)
. EDICOM Electronic Data Interchange on Commerce
. EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
. EDIFICAS EDI in Finance, Accounting, Audit, Fiscal and Social domains
. EDISENT EDI between Statistics and Enterprises
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/dosis/teler/
. EDP Electronic Data Processing
. EDR Electronic Data Reporting
. EEG6 EBES Experts Group 6 – Statistics
. EFI Electronic Form Interchange
. EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management
http://www.efqm.org
. EIB [EN] European Investment Bank (EIB)
[FR] Banque Européenne d’Investissement (BEI)
[DE] Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB)
http://eib.eu.int
. EJB Enterprise Java Beans
. ELPI European Labour Price Index
. EMU [EN] Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
[FR] Union Économique et Monétaire (UEM)
[DE] Wirtschafts-und Währungsunion (WWU)
. EPROS European Plan for Research in Official Statistics
. ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
. ESL European Statistical Laboratory
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/esl/
. ESS [EN] European statistical system (ESS)
[DE] Europäisches Statistisches System (ESS)
[FR] Système statistique européen (SSE)
. ESTAT Eurostat
. ETK Exchange of Technology and Know-how
. ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
http://www.etsi.org/
. EU [EN] European Union (EU)
[DE] Europäische Union (EU)
[FR] Union Européenne (UE)
http://europa.eu.int/
. EUROFER European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries
. EUROPA The EU’s web server
http://europa.eu.int
. EUROSTAT [EN] Statistical Office of the European Communities (SOEC)
[FR] Office statistique des Communautés européennes (OSCE)
[DE] Statistisches Amt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (SAEG)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat
. EWG EDIFACT Working Group
. EXTRASTAT Statistics on EU trade with third countries
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. FAME Forecasting, Analysis and Modelling Environment
. FEBI [FR] Fédérations Européennes par Branche d'Industrie
. FEBS Federation of European Biochemical Societies
. FIEE [FR] Fédération Professionelle des Industries Electriques, Electroniques et Informatiques
. FP1, FP2, FP3, FP4, FP5 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th R&D Framework Programme
. FSV Functional Service View (in ebXML)
. FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management
. FTP File Transfer Protocol
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. GEONOM Country Nomenclature for Foreign Trade Statistics
. GESMES Generic Statistical Message
. GIF Graphics Interchange Format
. GISCO Geographical Information System for the European Commission
. GSM Global System for Mobile communications
. GUI Graphical User Interface
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. HTML Hypertext Markup Language
. HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
. HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
. HTTPD HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon
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. IAB Internet Architecture Board
http://www.iab.org/
. IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
http://www.iana.org/
. ICANN Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org/
. ICR Intelligent Character Recognition
. ICT Information and Communication Technology
. IDA Interchange of Data between Administrations
. IDEP/CN8 Intrastat Data Entry Package with the Combined Nomenclature at 8 digit level
http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/dsis/edicom/library/
. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
http://www.ieee.org/
. IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/
. IMF International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/
. INE [PT] Instituto Nacional de Estatística
Portuguese statistical office
http://www.ine.pt
. INE [ES] Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Spanish statistical office
http://www.ine.es/
. INSEE [FR] Institut national de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques
French statistical office
http://www.insee.fr/
. INTRASTAT Intra-Community Trade Statistics
. IP Internet Protocol
. IQML Intelligent Questionnaire Mark-up Language
http://www.epros.ed.ac.uk/iqml/
. IRC Internet Relay Chat
. IRIS Interactive Registration for International trade Statistics
(also known as CBS-IRIS) Software package developed by CBS Netherlands for Intrastat reporting
. IRTF Internet Research Task Force
http://www.irtf.org/
. ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
. ISI International Statistical Institute
http://www.cbs.nl/isi/
. ISO International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.ch/
. ISOC Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/
. ISP Internet Service Provider
. ISPO Information Society Project Office
http://www.ispo.cec.be
. IST Information Society Technologies
http://www.cordis.lu/ist
. ISTAT Instituto Nazionale di Statistica
Italian statistical office
http://www.istat.it/
. ISTF Internet Societal Task Force
http://www.istf.org/
. IT Information Technology
. ITU International Telecommunication Union
http://www.itu.int/
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.. JB Java Beans
.. JRC [EN] Joint Research Centre (JRC)
[FR] Centre Commun de Recherche (CCR)
[DE] Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle (GFS)
http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/
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. KERMIT Simple and robust telecommunications protocol
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. LAN Local Area Network
. LCD Liquid Crystal Display
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. MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
. MIG (EDIFACT) Message Implementation Guidelines
. MIME Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension
. MINITEL French on-line service
. MIS Management Information System
. MODEM Modulator-Demodulator
. MP3 MPEG-1 audio layer 3
. MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group
. MS [EN] Member State (MS)
[DE] Mitgliedstaat (MS)
[FR] Etat Membre (EM)
. MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer
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. NACE [FR] Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne
[EN] Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community
. NEW CRONOS Eurostat reference database
. NIST National Institute for Standards and Technology, U.S.
. NORIS Nomenclature Of Research In Statistics
. NSI [EN] National Statistical Institute (NSI)
[FR] Institut National de Statistique (INS)
[DE] Nationales Statistisches Amt (NSA)
. NSSG National Statistical Service of Greece
. NUTS [FR] Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales Statistiques
[DE] Systematik der Gebietseinheiten für die Statistik
[EN] Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
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. OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
http://www.oasis-open.org
. OCR Optical Character Recognition
. OLAP Online Analytical Processing
. OLE Object Linking and Embedding
. OLTP Online Transaction Processing
. OMG Object Management Group
http://www.omg.org/
. ONS Office for National Statistics
UK’s statistical office
http://www.ons.gov.uk/
. OO, OOT Object Oriented
Object Oriented Technology
. OSI Open Systems Interconnection (ISO 7498)
. OSP On-line Service Provider
. OSS Open Source Software
. OESTAT [DE] Statistik Austria
Austrian statistical office
http://www.oestat.gv.at/
. OT Object Technology
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. P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences
. PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
. PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
. PDF Portable Document Format
. PDN Public Data Network
. PGP Pretty Good Privacy
. PKI Public Key Infrastructure
. PKZIP, PKUNZIP ZIP
. POP Point of Presence
. POP Post Office Protocol
. POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for computing environments eXtension
. PPP Point-to-point protocol
. PSI [EN] Provider of Statistical Information
[FR] Redevable de l'Information Statistique (RIS)
[DE] Auskunftspflichtiger (AP)
. PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
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. R&D [EN] Research and Development (R&D)
[FR] Recherche et Développement (R&D)
[DE] Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE)
. R&TD Research, Technological Development and Demonstration
. RDBMS Relational Database Management System
. RDRMES Raw Data Reporting Message
. ROS Research in Official Statistics
. RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
Encryption algorithm named after its inventors
http://www.rsa.com
. RTD Research and Technology Development
. RTF Rich Text Format
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. SBS Structural Busisness Statistics
. SDDS Special Data Dissemination Standard
. SDF Standard Distribution Format
. SERT [FR] Statistiques d'Entreprises et Réseaux Télématiques
[EN] Business Statistics and Telematic Networks
[DE] Unternehmenstatistik und Telematiknetze
Eurostat project
. SGML Standard Generalized Mark-up Language
. SIG Special Interest Group
. SISE [FR] Système d’information statistique de l’entreprise
SERT concept
. SME [EN] Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME)
[DE] Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU)
[FR] Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (PME)
. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
. SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
. SPC [EN] Statistical Programme Commitee (SPC)
[FR] Comité du Programme Statistique (CPS)
[DE] Ausschuß für das Statistische Programm (ASP)
. SSL Secure Sockets Layer
. STADIUM STAtistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor
. STATEC [FR] Service central de la statistique et des études économiques
Luxembourg’s statistical office
http://statec.gouvernement.lu
. STATEL Statistiques et Télétransmission
. STIPES [EN] Statistical Inquiries from Popular European Software
[DE] Statistische Erhebungen über handelsübliche Software in Europa
[FR] Enquêtes statistiques sur des logiciels souvent utilisés en Europe
SERT project launched in 2000
. STNE [EN] Statistics, Telematic Networks and EDI
[FR] Statistiques, réseaux télématiques et EDI
[DE] Statistik, Telematiknetze und EDI
Eurostat working group
. STS Short Term Statistics
. SUP.COM Activities of scientific and technical SUPport of a COMpetitive nature
. SYSTRAN [FR] Le système de traduction automatique de la Commission
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. TAC Telematics in Administrations Committee
IDA steering body
. TACIS Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States
. TAP Telematics Application Programme
. TARIC [EN] Integrated Customs Tariff of the European Communities
[FR] Tarif douanier intégré des Communautés européennes
[DE] Integrierter Zolltarif der Europäischen Gemeinschaften
. TC Telecommunication(s)
. TCP/IP Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
. TDE Touch-tone Data Entry
. TDP Third Declaring Party
. TED Tenders Electronic Daily
http://ted.eur-op.eu.int
. TELER Telematics for Enterprise Reporting
R&D project
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/dosis/teler/
. TEN Trans-European Networks in the fields of transport, energy, environment and telecommunication
. TES Training of European Statisticians
. TESTA Trans-European Services for Telematics between Administrations
IDA project
. TIFF Tagged Image File Format
. TLD (Internet) Top Level Domain
. TQM Total Quality Management
. TVA [FR] Taxe sur la Valeur Ajoutée
VAT
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. UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
http://www.uddi.org
. UE [FR] Union Européenne
EU
. UEM [FR] Union Économique et Monétaire
EMU
. UK [EN] United Kingdom (UK)
[FR] Royaume Uni (RU)
[DE] Vereinigtes Königreich (VK)
. UML Unified Modelling Language
. UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
. UN [EN] United Nations (UN)
[DE] Vereinte Nationen (VN)
[FR] Nations Unies (NU)
http://www.un.org/
. UNCCS United Nations Common Coding System
. UNICE Union of Industries of the European Community
. UNICODE 16-bit character set
. UNO [EN] United Nations Organization (UNO)
[FR] Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU)
[DE] Organisation der Vereinten Nationen (UNO)
. UNSD UN Statistics Division
. URL Uniform Ressource Locator
. UUCP Unix to Unix Copy
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. VAN Value Added Network
. VAT [EN] Value Added Tax (VAT)
[DE] Mehrwertsteuer (MwSt)
[FR] Taxe sur la Valeur Ajoutée (TVA)
. VB Visual Basic
. VBX Visual Basic Controls
. VESL Virtual European Statistical Laboratory
. VIES
VAT Information Exchange System
. VIMA
VIES, Intrastat, Mutual Assistance (Ireland)
. VIROS Virtual Institute for Research in Official Statistics
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/
. VPN Virtual Private Network
. VR Voice Recognition
. VSE Very Small Enterprises
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. W3C World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/
. WAP Wireless Application Protocol
. Web World Wide Web
. WG Working Group
. WWW World Wide Web
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. X.25 ISO standard for communication between computers and networks
. X.400 ISO standard for electronic mail
. X.500 ISO standard for directories
. X-MODEM File transfer protocol
. XBRL eXtensible Business Reporting Language
http://www.xbrl.org/
. XMI XML Metadata Interchange
. XML Extensible Mark-up Language
. XML/EDI XML/EDI Initiative
http://www.xmledi-group.org/
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. ZIP Compression method. Tools: PKZIP (compress) and PKUNZIP (decompress). File extension: .ZIP
. ZNS [DE] Zuständige Nationale Stelle
CNA