C4D (Cerif for Datasets) – an extension of the CERIF metadata standard used to describe research datasets.
CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) – is a metadata standard aimed at management of Research Information, including the setup of and the interoperation between Current Research Information Systems (CRIS). The European Commission recommended CERIF to member states as a standard for recording research information. An extension of this standard called C4D is used for recording metadata of research datasets. C4D is the basic metadata format used by the National Open Access Research Data Archive (MIDAS).
CIF (Crystallographic Information File) – A standard text file format for the exchange and archiving of crystallographic data.
Current Research Information System (CRIS) – An information system used to store, manage and exchange contextual metadata for the research activity funded by a research funder or conducted at a research-performing organisation.
Data journal – a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes detailed descriptions of research datasets along with the information where the data can be accessed. For more information, see Data papers.
Data management plan – A document providing information on accumulation, storage and access of project data indicating the measures intended in the course of the project and upon its completion to ensure that the data are archived safely and reliably; it also states how and under what conditions the data will be accessible for reuse, provided there are no conflicting legal, ethical factors or security concerns; how and when the data will be opened for other users; the standard metadata intended to be used for the description of the project data, as well as the procedure for management and updating the data, and what type of data will be provided for the long or short-term storage, in the latter case indicating when and in what manner the data will be destroyed. For more information, see Data management plans.
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) – International standard for transmitting, storing, retrieving, printing, processing, and displaying medical imaging information.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) – A unique alphanumeric string that is used to identify digital objects such as journal articles, datasets or open source software releases. DOI is one of several Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) used in scholarly communication.
Dublin Core – The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is a vocabulary of ”core” properties for describing digital resources.
FAIR Data Principles – see FAIR data principles.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – A communications protocol governing the transfer of files from one computer to another over a network.
Funding institution and other sources – Subject allocating finances or in other ways supporting implementation of scientific research.
Handle – a type of persistent identifier used for identifying digital objects.
LITNET FEDI – A federated identity service for research and education institutions in Lithuania that participate in LITNET programme and have a valid LITNET service agreement.
Metadata – Structurally defined information that describes and explains the document or an information resource, indicates its location or otherwise facilitates its retrieval, use or management. Examples of metadata are title, author and his affiliation, the funder of research, publication time and place, licence information, etc. For more information, see Metadata.
Metadata standard – A metadata standard is a semantic scheme for structuring metadata. There are many different metadata standards. Some of them are designed for metadata describing specific objects, some for metadata originating from a specific subject area. A list of disciplinary metadata standards can be found here.
MIDAS – The information system of the National Open Access Research Data Archive. It is an open access repository intended for storing and publishing research data with the aim of widening their dissemination and ensuring their findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. For more information, see National Open Access Research data Archive (MIDAS).
OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) – A protocol developed for harvesting metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives.
Open access repository – Open access repository is a technical infrastructure used for storing and opening research publications, and/or related or separately submitted research data, at the same time submitting the metadata. Such repositories may be national, institutional, thematic or specialised, widely recognised by academic community of a specific domain. Also see Data repositories.
Open content licence – An agreement between copyrights’ holders and the public setting the terms under which copyrights’ holders give permission to use the work to other persons (third parties).
Open data – Data that can be used and disseminated by everyone freely with the condition that the source of the data is indicated (if this condition is not waived).
Principal Investigator – Person who is responsible for the implementation of scientific research (project). If scientific research is carried out by a group of persons, members of group are defined as researchers and the leader of group is defined as the main researcher.
Research data – Results accumulated and / or obtained in the course of research that may be published and opened together with the publications they support, or stored in repositories. It is recommended that research data follow the FAIR Data Principles. For more information, see Research data and research data management.
Research data management – Research Data Management covers the planning, collecting, organising, managing, storage, security, backing up, preserving, and sharing data. It ensures that research data are managed according to legal, statutory, ethical and funding body requirements. For more information, see Research data and research data management.
Research data management plan – see Data management plan.
Researcher – A person performing scientific research individually or in a group.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) – The address of a resource on the Internet. A URL indicates the location of a resource as well as the protocol used to access it.
URN (Uniform Resource Name) – A type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that provides an object on the web with a unique and persistent name thus ensuring the identification of the object for a long period of time.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) – A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.