Archival Image
A digital image taken at the highest practicable resolution and securely stored.

Born Digital
Digital content that has originated in the digital realm and has no print or analog counterpart.

Copyright
A form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain.

Digital Preservation
A set of processes and activities that ensure continued access to information and all kinds of records, scientific and cultural heritage existing in digital formats.

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Access control strategies or technologies intended to impose limitations on the usage of digital resources such and to eliminate illegal copying and unauthorised access.

Digitisation
The process of capturing physical objects in digital form and delivering this content online

Dublin Core
A metadata element set it is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite media like web pages

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
A metadata schema used to describe archival collections and compatible with XML

E Ink
Display technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Commonly used in mobile devices such as e-readers, E Ink technology allows the reader to read text and view images without glare from the sun or other bright lights

EPUB - Electronic Publication
A free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is enables text display to be optimized for the particular display device.

EThOS
Electronic Theses Online System

Fair Dealing
Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA), fair dealing is defined as "private study and criticism and review and news reporting" (s. 29, 30)

HESS Higher Education Scanning Service.
British Library service which delivers materials covered by the CLA HE Photocopying and Trial Scanning Licence electronically direct to the requesting institution

Intellectual Property (IP)
Intellectual property comprises copyright, designs, patents, confidential information and trade marks

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
A bundle of property rights that grants the originator the right to protect materials created by them including.

Interoperability
The capacity for content and systems to seamlessly work with other systems using a set of agreed specifications or standards

Learning Object
A resource, usually digital and web-based, that can be used and re-used to support learning.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
The electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text

Metadata
The ‘data about data’, of any sort in any media. Metadata can be text, voice, or image that describes what the audience wants or needs to search or see.

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
A metadata schema for describing library materials. A simplified version of the MARC standard, formatted using XML.

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
A standard used for sharing metadata records. Formatted using XML.
Outsourcing
Subcontracting the process of digitisation to a third-party company.

Portable Document Format (PDF)
An Adobe Systems file format for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents such as journal articles and book chapters

Preservation
Maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records through the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage.

Scan Area
The maximum dimensions of the area on a scanner in which an item can be placed in order to be digitised.

Scanner
A piece of equipment which supplies a digital image of the item which is placed in it.

Secure Electronic Delivery (SED)
British Library service supplying electronic documents direct to the requesters via email.

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
A file format for storing images, including photographs. TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications.

Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
Now known as JISC Digital Media, one of the JISC Services

XML - Extensible Markup Language
Allows users to cutomize tags, giving additional functionality that is not available in HTML.


Additions
If you have any additions for the glossary please e-mail them to Sophie Williamson in the NoWAL Office.