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Knowledge Management RoadmapGLOSSARY
forJoint Information Systems CommitteeBYALAN GILCHRIST
 
JANUARY 2006
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TFPL Ref. 05/415ABHPC
Definition 1
: Advisory Body on High Performance Computing
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAbsorption
Definition 1
: Application of new codified insights to create new understanding that can beapplied in different situations. Over time, the application of such codified insights gainedby Scanning (q.v.), become part of the Tacit knowledge (q.v.) available to an organisation.
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BSI Knowledge Management VocabularyACC
Definition 1
: Association for Community Colleges. ACC is a European association that worksfor the development of an enlightened European debate on questions and politicalproblems shared by the Europeans. The ACC encourages the running of community collegeson a common European level.
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossary
 
ACCAC
Definition 1
: Qualifications, curriculum and assessment authority for Wales, the parallel bodyto the QCA in England. It regulates all external qualifications except individual NVQs.
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAccess
Definition 1
: The activity of obtaining the most appropriate copy of a discovered resource.
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www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/glossary/ACN
Definition 1
: The Advisory Committee on Networking, a JISC sub-committee prior to Autumn1999. This committee is now replace by JCN, the JISC Committee for Networking.
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryActionable intelligence
Definition 1
: Information or knowledge that can be acted upon to produce a decision.Actionable intelligence is a term sometimes used to describe information and knowledgethat has been analysed and is believed to be valid in the context of a required decision.
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BSI Knowledge Management VocabularyADS
Definition 1
: Archaeology Data Service. One of the Service Providers of the Arts andHumanities Data Service. (A JISC funded service).
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TFPL Ref. 05/415
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAfter Action Review
Definition 1
: Structured and facilitated discussion to review an activity that is focused onperformance improvement through reflection and learning. After Action Review (AAR) is aprocess developed by the US Army to help teams to learn rapidly from their successes andfailures and to share their learning with other teams. After every mission or task AARenabled participants to discover for themselves what happened, why it happened, and howto sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses. It is a tool that leaders and units can useto get maximum benefits from every action. Learning histories (q.v.) include formal reportsarising from After Action Reviews. The principles behind AARs are now used by manyorganisations in different sectors and different contexts.
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BSI Knowledge Management VocabularyAggregator
Definition 1
: A structured network service that gathers metadata from a range of other,heterogeneous, local or remote structured network services. Aggregators are intended foruse by software applications. In the context of the JISC IE, aggregators interact withindexes, catalogues, content providers and other aggregators using the OAI-PMH andRSS/HTTP. Aggregators interact with portals using the OAI-PMH. In some cases anaggregator may offer its aggregated metadata as a Z39.50 target.
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www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/glossary/AGOCG
Definition 1
: Advisory Committee on Computer Graphics, a 'think tank', based atLoughborough University and funded jointly by JISC and EPSRC. It closed in 1998.
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAHDS
Definition 1
: Arts and Humanities Data Service. The Executive for this distributed service isbased at King's College London, (A JISC funded service).
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAHRB
Definition 1
: Arts and Humanities Research Board, established in 1998
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www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about_glossaryAlert
Definition 1
: A disclosure strategy based on issuing information about new or updatedresources, typically through a network service or via email.
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