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ANNEX 5: GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
ASCC | Association of Scottish Community Councils |
ASP | Active Server Pages - a programming language |
Blog | The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. It is a personalised online publishing system. |
Blogging | Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". |
Blog posts | Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts" "posts" or "entries". |
Blogger | A person who posts entries into a blog is called a "blogger" |
CC | Community Council |
DCLG | Department of Communities and Local Government |
DTD | Document Type Definition. This is a defined set of rules that the code that each webpage contains must adhere to. By declaring it, a coder is saying that his code will meet the criteria for code quality that the DTD in question references. |
FCSD: ASD | Finance and Central Services Department Analytical Services Division, Scottish Executive |
Google 42 | A web search engine, which includes a blog search mechanism |
IceRocket | A blog search engine |
IT | Information Technology |
ICT | Information and Communication Technologies |
ITC | International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University |
ODPM | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister |
Open Source | Software that is freely available and free to access over the internet. The basic idea behind open source is that programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, allowing the software to evolve, improve, adapt and fix any bugs. This means improved software applications area available - for free - to all web users. (See http://www.opensource.org/ ) |
RSS | Really Simple Syndication feeds |
SEED | Scottish Executive Education Department ( SEED) |
SPAM | Unsolicited email or blog postings on unrelated topics, often generated automatically using software |
Search engine spider | A search engine spider is a tool that search engines use to search websites. They 'crawl' code and index pages to find out what a website contains and whether it matches the search terms. 43 |
Technorati 44 | A blog search engine. |
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