Abbreviation	Meaning	Wiki_Link	Reference_Link
ABCD	Access to Biological Collection Data	Wikipedia	Reference
ABMS	Automated Biodiversity Monitoring Station		Reference
ABMS	Acoustic Bird Monitoring System		Reference
ABS	Access & Benefit-Sharing		Reference
AC	Audubon Core		Reference
AD	Active Directory	Wikipedia	Reference
AG	Administrateur Generaal	Wikipedia	Reference
AHM	All Hands Meeting
AMI	Amazon Machine Image	Wikipedia	Reference
AMT	AmazonMechanical Turk platform	Wikipedia	Reference
ANB	Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos	Wikipedia	Reference
AOB	Any Other Business / Bugs
API	Application Programming Interface	Wikipedia	Reference
ARID	Accept (some) Repetition In Documentation		Reference
ARID	Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs	Wikipedia	Reference
ARIMA	Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average	Wikipedia	Reference
ARK	Archival Resource Key
ARs	Association Rules	Wikipedia	Reference
ASR	Automatic Speech Recognition	Wikipedia	Reference
AST	Abstract Syntax Tree	Wikipedia	Reference
AToM	Access to Memory		Reference
AUP	Acceptable Use Policy	Wikipedia	Reference
AWT	ARPHA Writing Tool		Reference
AgO	Agentschap Overheidspersoneel		Reference
BDQ	Biodiversity Data Quality		Reference
BGCI	Botanic Gardens Conservation International	Wikipedia	Reference
BGS	British Geographic Survey	Wikipedia	Reference
BIM	Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer = Leefmilieu Brussel	Wikipedia	Reference
BISE	Biodiversity Information System for Europe		Reference
BIT	Biodiversity Informatics Team
BKH	Biodiversity Knowledge Hub
BMCC	European Biodiversity Monitoring Coordination Centre		Reference
BNF	Backus–Naur form	Wikipedia	Reference
BODC	British Oceanographic Data Centre	Wikipedia	Reference
BOPCO	Barcoding of species Of Policy COncern		Reference
BOVW	Bag Of Visual Words Model	Wikipedia
BP	Best Practices	Wikipedia
BRU	Biological Recording Unit
BSBI	Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland	Wikipedia	Reference
BWDS	Belgian Wildlife Disease Symposium		Reference
BoW	Bag of Words Model	Wikipedia
Btree	self balancing tree data structure	Wikipedia
CA	Certificate authority	Wikipedia	Reference
CAF	Central African Flora		Reference
CARE	Collective-Benefit,Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics		Reference
CART	Classification And Regression Tree	Wikipedia	Reference
CAS	Central Authentication Service	Wikipedia
CATREIN	Camera trap research infrastructure		Reference
CBC	Collection of Botanical Curiosities
CBD	Convention on Biological Diversity	Wikipedia	Reference
CD	Collection Descriptions		Reference
CDPHE	Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment		Reference
CFS	Certificate on the Financial Statement		Reference
CHI	Cultural Heritage Institution
CHI/HCI	Computer-Human Interaction/Interface	Wikipedia
CI/CD	Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Development	Wikipedia	Reference
CKAN	Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network	Wikipedia	Reference
CMS	Collection Management Systems	Wikipedia
CORS	Cross-origin resource sharing	Wikipedia	Reference
CPI	Central Posterior Interval	Wikipedia	Reference
CPUE	Catch Per Unit Effort	Wikipedia	Reference
CRAR	Concurrent Relational Association Rule (mining)		Reference
CRUD	Create Read Update Delete	Wikipedia	Reference
CS	Citizen Science	Wikipedia
CSL	Citation Style Language	Wikipedia	Reference
CSR	Corporate Social Responsibility	Wikipedia
CT	Camera Trapping	Wikipedia
CURE	Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience		Reference
CWL	Common Workflow Language	Wikipedia	Reference
CoT	Chain of thought	Wikipedia	Reference
DAG	Directed acyclic graph	Wikipedia	Reference
DAI	Digitally Accessable Information
DAK	Digitally Accessable Knowledge
DAM	Digital Asset Management	Wikipedia	Reference
DAMP	Descriptive And Meaningful Phrases		Reference
DAMS	Digital Asset Management Systems		Reference
DDG	Dynamic Document Generation		Reference
DEIA	Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility	Wikipedia
DEMNA	Département de l’Etude du milieu naturel et agricole	Wikipedia	Reference
DH	Digital Humanities	Wikipedia
DHS	Digital Herbarium Specimens	Wikipedia
DITOs	Doing It Together Science		Reference
DLF	Digital Library Federation	Wikipedia	Reference
DO	Dissolved Oxygen		Reference
DOI	Digital Object Identifier	Wikipedia	Reference
DOIP	Digital Object Interface Protocol		Reference
DOV	Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen		Reference
DPLA	Digital Public Library of America	Wikipedia	Reference
DPO	Data Protection Officer	Wikipedia	Reference
DQ	Data Quality		Reference
DRAR	Discovery of Relational Association Rules		Reference
DRG	Dynamic Report Generation	Wikipedia	Reference
DSI	Digital Sequence Information		Reference
DTD	Documentation Technical Debt		Reference
DwC	DarwinCore	Wikipedia	Reference
EBNF	Extended Backus–Naur form	Wikipedia	Reference
EBS	Amazon Elastic Block Store	Wikipedia	Reference
EBV	Essential Biodiversity Variables	Wikipedia	Reference
EC	Electrical Conductivity		Reference
ECSA	European Citizen Science Association	Wikipedia	Reference
EDA	Exploratory Data Analysis	Wikipedia	Reference
EDM	Europeana Data Model		Reference
EML	Ecological Metadata Language	Wikipedia
ENA	Europeana Network Association		Reference
ENA	European Nucleotide Archive	Wikipedia	Reference
ENM	Ecological Niche Modelling	Wikipedia	Reference
ENRAM	European Network for the Radar Surveillance of Animal Movement		Reference
EOF	End Of File	Wikipedia	Reference
EOL	Encyclopedia of life	Wikipedia	Reference
EOSC	European Open Science Cloud	Wikipedia	Reference
ER Model	Entity Relationship Model	Wikipedia	Reference
ERDA	Electronic Research Data Archive		Reference
ERIC	European Research Infrastructure Consortium	Wikipedia	Reference
ESFRI	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures		Reference
ESG Data	Environment Social and Governance Data	Wikipedia	Reference
ESTATE	Exploring Spatial daTa Association paTErns		Reference
ETI	Everything To Index
ETL	Entry Transfer Load	Wikipedia
ETL	Extract Transform Load	Wikipedia
ETN	European Tracking Network		Reference
EUNIS	European Nature Information System	Wikipedia	Reference
EVBs	Essential Biodiversity Variables	Wikipedia	Reference
F2F	Face to Face	Wikipedia
FAIR	Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable	Wikipedia
FAMD	Factor Analysis of Mixed Data	Wikipedia	Reference
FBP	Flemish Biodiversity Portal		Reference
FDA	FAIR Data Object		Reference
FDO	FAIR Digital Object		Reference
FDP	FAIR Data Place
FFU	Fitness For Use
FOSB	The Flemish Open Science Board		Reference
FP	Functional Programming	Wikipedia	Reference
FTE	Full Time Equivalent	Wikipedia
FdAC	Flore d'Afrique Centrale		Reference
GA	Grant Agreement
GAM	Generalized additive model	Wikipedia	Reference
GBS	Genotyping by Sequencing	Wikipedia
GCP	Google Cloud Platform	Wikipedia	Reference
GDM	Generalized Dissimilarity Modeling		Reference
GEE	Google Earth Engine	Wikipedia	Reference
GGBN	Global Genome Biodiversity Network		Reference
GLAM	Galleries,Libraries,Archives,Museums
GOs	Genomics Observatories
GSP	Generic Services Projects
GUPRI	Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifier		Reference
GWR	Geographically Weighted Regression	Wikipedia	Reference
GenDiv	Genetische Diversiteit		Reference
GloBAM	Global Biomass flows of Aerial Migrations		Reference
HITs	Human Intelligence Tasks		Reference
HPDI	Highest Posterior Density Interval	Wikipedia	Reference
HSTS	HTTP Strict Transport Security	Wikipedia	Reference
HTAP	Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing	Wikipedia	Reference
HTR	Handwritten Text Recognition	Wikipedia
HVD	High Value Datasets	Wikipedia	Reference
HVV	Hubertus Vereniging Vlaanderen	Wikipedia	Reference
HWG	Horizontale Werkgroep
HiRAD	Harmonising and integrating Radar-based approaches for monitoring Aerial bioDiversity		Reference
IA	Innovation Action		Reference
IAS	Invasive Alien Species	Wikipedia	Reference
IAS	Invasive Alien Species	Wikipedia	Reference
IBGE	Bruxelles Environnement	Wikipedia	Reference
ICS	Implementation Conformance Statement	Wikipedia	Reference
IDA	Initial Data Analysis	Wikipedia
IDEAS	Inclusion Diversity Equity and Accessibility Strategies	Wikipedia
IGSN	International Geo Sample Number	Wikipedia	Reference
ILK	Indiginous and Local Knowledge	Wikipedia	Reference
IMIS	VLIZ Integrated Marine Informations System		Reference
INBO	Instituut voor Natuur- en BosOnderzoek	Wikipedia	Reference
INEA	Innovations and Networks Executive Agency		Reference
IO	Inkoop Order	Wikipedia	Reference
IPT	Integrated Publishing Toolkit		Reference
IRI	Information Reuse and Integration		Reference
IRI	International Research Infrastructure		Reference
IRIs	Internationalized Resource Identifiers	Wikipedia	Reference
IS	Index Seminum	Wikipedia
ITIS	Integrated Taxonomic Information System	Wikipedia	Reference
JEMU	Joint Experimental Molecular Unit		Reference
JIT	Just In Time (Compilation)	Wikipedia	Reference
JRC	Joint Research Centre	Wikipedia	Reference
KDD	Knowledge Discovery in Databases		Reference
KEE	Knowledge Engineering Environment	Wikipedia	Reference
KML	Keyhole Markup Language	Wikipedia	Reference
KPI	Key Performance Indicator	Wikipedia	Reference
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	Wikipedia	Reference
LDES	Linked Data Event Streams		Reference
LDF	Linked Data Fragments		Reference
LDN	Linked Data Notifications	Wikipedia	Reference
LDP	Linked Data Platform	Wikipedia	Reference
LIDO	Lightweight Information Describing Objects	Wikipedia	Reference
LIMS	Laboratory Information Management System	Wikipedia
LMM	Large Language Model	Wikipedia	Reference
LOD	Linked Open Data
LODLAM	Linked Open Data in Library, Archives, and Museums		Reference
LOUD	Linked Open Usable Data		Reference
LSID	Life Science Identifiers	Wikipedia
LTER	Long Term Scientific Research (Site/Network)	Wikipedia
MAA	Multi Actor Approach		Reference
MAP	Multi Actor Panel
MAS	Meetnet Agrarische Soorten		Reference
MCA	Multiple Correspondence Analysis	Wikipedia	Reference
MCM	Management Committee Member (Cost Mobilse)		Reference
MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo	Wikipedia	Reference
MDA	Marine Data Archive		Reference
MER	Milieu Effecten Rapport	Wikipedia	Reference
MET	Morpho-Ecological Type
MFA	Multiple Factor Analysis	Wikipedia	Reference
MICS	Minimum Information about a Digital Collection		Reference
MIDS	Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen
MIDS	MinimumInformation for Digital Specimens		Reference
MOBS	Machine Observations		Reference
MODS	Metadata Object Description Schema (compromise between MARC and DublinCore)	Wikipedia	Reference
MOF	Meta-Object Facility	Wikipedia	Reference
MONEOS	MONitoring Effecten Ontwikkelings Schets		Reference
MSE	Mean squared error	Wikipedia
MT	Management Team		Reference
MTA	Material Transfer Agreements	Wikipedia	Reference
MVT	Marginal value theorem	Wikipedia
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding	Wikipedia
NARA	NAtuur RApport		Reference
NBD	No Big Deal		Reference
NBGB	National Botanical Garden of Belgium
NCP	Natures Contributions to People		Reference
NHC	Natural History Collections
OBF	Open Bioinformatics Foundation	Wikipedia	Reference
OBO	Open biological and biomedical ontologies	Wikipedia	Reference
ODS	Operational Data Stores	Wikipedia	Reference
OER	Open Educational Resources	Wikipedia	Reference
OIL	Ontology Inference Layer	Wikipedia	Reference
OIS	OmgevingsInformatieSamenwerkingsverband		Reference
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing	Wikipedia	Reference
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing	Wikipedia	Reference
OMG	Object Management Group	Wikipedia	Reference
OPDS	Open Publication Distribution System	Wikipedia	Reference
OPERA	Operational Programme for the Exchange of Weather Radar Information		Reference
OPT	Optimal Foraging Theory	Wikipedia	Reference
ORCID	Open Researcher and Contributor ID	Wikipedia	Reference
ORM	Object-Relational Mapper	Wikipedia
ORMS	Operating Resource Management System		Reference
OS	Open Science	Wikipedia	Reference
OSG	Open Science Grid	Wikipedia	Reference
OT	Onderzoeksteam
OTU	Operational Taxonomic Unit	Wikipedia	Reference
OWL	Web Ontology Language	Wikipedia
OWM	Onbezoldigd Wetenschappelijk Medewerker	Wikipedia
OZ	Onderzoeker
OpenDS	Open Digital Specimen		Reference
PAM	Passive Acoustic Monitoring	Wikipedia	Reference
PBD	Primary Biodiversity Data	Wikipedia	Reference
PBS	Portable Batch System	Wikipedia	Reference
PC	Programme Coordinator		Reference
PCA	Principal Component Analysis	Wikipedia	Reference
PEP	PErsoneelsPlan		Reference
PIAK	Project Intentie Afwegings Kader
PID	Persistent Identifier	Wikipedia
PIF	Project Informatie Fiche		Reference
PIF	Project Intentie Fiche	Wikipedia
PM	Project Manager
POPD	Processing Of Personal Data		Reference
POV	Provincie Oost Vlaanderen	Wikipedia
PPRS	People-Powered Research Science		Reference
PSS	Perceived Stress Scale	Wikipedia	Reference
PTOW	Plaats en TijdsOnafhankelijk Werken	Wikipedia	Reference
QAQC	Quality Assurance Quality Control	Wikipedia	Reference
QoE	Quality of Experience	Wikipedia	Reference
RA	Registration Authority	Wikipedia	Reference
RARs	Relational association rules		Reference
RDA	Resource Description and Access	Wikipedia
RDD	Resilient Distributed Datasets	Wikipedia	Reference
RDF	Resource Description Framework	Wikipedia
RDFS	RDF Schema	Wikipedia
RDM	Research Data Management		Reference
RDS	(Amazon) Relational Database Service	Wikipedia	Reference
RFC	Request For Comments	Wikipedia	Reference
RIA	Research and Innovation Action		Reference
RIMS	Research Information Management System		Reference
RIOT	Reproducible Interpretable Open & Transparent Science		Reference
RIs	Research Infrastructures
RMCA	Royal Museum for Central Africa	Wikipedia	Reference
ROK	RaamOvereenKomst
ROR	Research Organization Registry		Reference
RRI	Responsible Research and Innovation	Wikipedia	Reference
RSE	Research Software Engineering	Wikipedia	Reference
RiC	Records in Contexts	Wikipedia	Reference
SAD	(local) Species Abundance Distribution	Wikipedia	Reference
SAIV	Schedule As Independent Variable	Wikipedia	Reference
SAM	Sequence Alignment Map format	Wikipedia	Reference
SAP	Sampling and Analysis Plan		Reference
SAP	System Analysis Program	Wikipedia	Reference
SBP	Soorten Beschermings Programma		Reference
SBP	Soorts Beschermings Programma		Reference
SDG	Sustainable Development Goal	Wikipedia	Reference
SDR	Specimen Data Refinery		Reference
SIMD	Single instruction multiple data	Wikipedia	Reference
SKOS	Simple Knowledge Organization System	Wikipedia	Reference
SLA	Service Level Agreement	Wikipedia	Reference
SME	Small and medium-sized enterprises	Wikipedia	Reference
SMK	Seasonal Mann-Kendell Test		Reference
SOC	Soil Organic Carbon	Wikipedia
SOP	Standard operating procedure	Wikipedia	Reference
SPI	Science-Policy Interface		Reference
SPNHC	The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections	Wikipedia	Reference
SPRING	Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through Indicators and monitoriNG		Reference
STAR	Self-defining Text Archive and Retrieval	Wikipedia	Reference
STING	Science and Technology for Pollinating Insects		Reference
STSM	Short Term Scientific Mission
SWEET	Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology		Reference
SWO	SamenWerkingsOvereenkomst		Reference
SaaS	Software as a Service	Wikipedia	Reference
SoC	System On Chip	Wikipedia
TBPH	To Be Perfectly Honest		Reference
TDQM	Total Data Quality Management
TDS	Total Dissolved Solids	Wikipedia
TDWG	Taxonomic Descriptions Work Group		Reference
TLS	Transport Layer Security	Wikipedia	Reference
TRE	Taxonomic Resolution Engine
TRL	Technology Readiness Level	Wikipedia	Reference
TSS	The Social Study		Reference
TW	Tervuren Wood		Reference
TWDTW	Time-Weighted Dynamic Time Warping		Reference
TWS	Tervuren Wood Samples/Specimens		Reference
UAT	User Acceptance Testing	Wikipedia	Reference
UAT	User Acceptence Testing	Wikipedia	Reference
UI	Unsigned Integer (capable of representing only non-negative integers)	Wikipedia	Reference
UI	User Interface	Wikipedia	Reference
UKCH	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Wikipedia	Reference
UML	Unified Modeling Language	Wikipedia
UPGMA	Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean	Wikipedia
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier	Wikipedia	Reference
VA	Virtual Access		Reference
VBP	Vlaams Biodiversiteits Portaal		Reference
VBTA	Vereniging van Botanische Tuinen en Arboreta		Reference
VIAF	Virtual International Authority File	Wikipedia	Reference
VPC	Virtual Private Cloud	Wikipedia	Reference
VPS	Virtual Private Server	Wikipedia	Reference
VVGN	Vlaamse Vereniging Gelijkberechting Natuurbeheer		Reference
VWI	Vlaamse Wetenschappelijke Instellingen		Reference
WAYF	Where Are You From		Reference
WAZA	World Association of Zoos and Aquariums		Reference
WBE	Wild Beheer Eenheid	Wikipedia	Reference
WDL	Workflow Description Language		Reference
WDYT	What Do You Think		Reference
WGMS	World Glacier Monitoring Service	Wikipedia	Reference
WIZ	Wild In Zicht		Reference
XDF	Exchange Data Format	Wikipedia	Reference
ZAP	Zelfstandig Academisch Personeel	Wikipedia
eMoF	extended Measurement or Fact		Reference
s.l.	sine locale, without a location
NA	Networking Action