The following glossary is provided as a resource for data producers, data librarians, data users, and is based on a glossary prepared by James Jacobs, formerly at the University of California, San Diego. Some terms were also added from XML Terms: Jargon terms in XML and what they mean . To supplement this glossary with more terms related to computing, consult the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Fourth Edition, edited by Anthony Ralston and Edwin D. Reilly.

CESSDA Data Archiving Guide (DAG) ICPSR glossary terminology vocabulary

ICPSR / Jacobs, James