*   BioCASe   *    Biological Collections Access Service  http://www.biocase.org 

*   BioCASE   *    Biological Collections Access Service for Europe  http://www.biocase.org

*   BioCISE   *     Biological Collection Information Service in Europe http://www.bgbm.org/BioCise/

*   CODATA   *    International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology http://www.codata.org/

*   Darwin Core   *    A simple set of data element definitions designed to support the sharing and integration of primary biodiversity data http://darwincore.calacademy.org/

*   DiGIR   *    Distributed Generic Information Retrieval  http://www.digir.net 

*   ENHSIN   *    European Natural History Specimen Information Network http://www.bgbm.org/BioDivInf/projects/ENHSIN/

*   GBIF   *    Global Biodiversity Information Facility

*   GML   *    Geography Markup Language http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml

*   GUID   *    Global Unique Identifier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID

*   HISPID   *    Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/HISCOM/HISPID/HISPID3/hispidright.html

*   HTML   *    HyperText Markup Language http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

*   ITF   *    The International Transfer Format for Botanic Garden Plant Records http://ww.bgbm.org/TDWG/acc/itf2-d32.doc

*   ITIS   *    Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.usda.gov/

*   ITIS-CA   *    ITIS Canada http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/

*   JavaScript   *    JavaScript Scripting language (originally called LiveScript) developed by Netscape Communications for use with the Navigator browser http://www.mozilla.org/js/

*   LSID   *    Life Science Identifier http://lsid.sourceforge.net/

*   OGC   *    Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. http://www.opengeospatial.org/

*   REMIB   *    Red Mundial de Información sobre Biodiversidad http://www.conabio.gob.mx/remib/doctos/remib_esp.html

*   SDD   *    Structure of Descriptive Data. An TDWG,  XML-based interoperability standard for descriptive data

*   Species Analyst   *    Research project developing standards and software tools for access to the world's natural history collection and observation databases http://speciesanalyst.net

*   speciesLink   *    Distributed Information System integrating primary data from scientific biological collections http://splink.cria.org.br

*   SYNTHESYS   *    Synthesis of Systematic Resources http://www.synthesys.info/

*   UDDI   *    Universal Description, Discovery and Integration http://www.uddi.org

*   URI   *    Universal Resource Identifiers http://www.w3.org/Addressing/#background

*   UTF   *    Universal Transformation Format http://www.unicode.org/

*   WFS   *    Web Feature Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs

*   WMS   *    Web Map Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms

*   XML DTD   *    Document Type Definition http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html

*   XML Schema   *    A formal definition of the mandatory and optional structure and content of XML formatted documents within its domain.