| Term
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Explanation
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| .ogg
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File extension for Ogg Vorbis, an open-source patent-free audio compression format
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| 21 CFR Part 11
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United States Food and Drug Administration electronic records and electronic signatures rule
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| Academia.edu
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A web site that allows academics to share research papers and exchange information
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| accuracy
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Defines how well the results of an analysis or measurement conforms to the actual or "correct" value
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| AEQ
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Analytical equipment qualification
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| agnostic
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A term applied to both hardware and software that indicates that the item is interoperable with different systems (The correct term should probably be "technology-independent" or "technology-neutral," but the use of the term "agnostic" appears to be well entrenched.)
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| AHP
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Analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a structured technique developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s for organizing and analyzing complex decisions
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| AIQ
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Analytical instrument qualification (AIQ), a term used in the pharmaceutical industry for the process of ensuring that an instrument meets the requirements for its intended application
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| Apache Hadoop YARN
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Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN), a technology for managing resources on a cluster of computers
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| Apache Lucene
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A software library for information retrieval from fields of text contained within document files
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| ASE
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Adaptive Server Enterprise
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| Audit trail
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A log of records documenting the sequence of activities that have been performed on a system
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| binary package distribution
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A compilation of the compiled version of a program and all related documentation designed for release to the end user
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| BREW
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Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), a runtime and application development environment from Qualcomm that isolates portable applications from the hardware interface of mobile phones employing code division multiplex access (CDMA)
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| BRR
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Business readiness rating
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| CDMS
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Chromatography data management system (CDMS)
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| CFR
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United States Code of Federal Regulations
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| change log
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A log documenting the changes made to a software product, which may include a list of new features, changes to behavior, or elimination of software bugs
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| COC
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Chain of custody (COC), a paper or electronic documentation trail that documents responsibility of a sample (This is required for legal reasons under various regulatory programs, and it also provides information used to track faulty or contaminated items back to their source.)
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| committer
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The person that represents the quality control of the community, controlling what changes are included in the originally licensed version, though users are free to make any changes they want in their own copies of the program
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| Compiere
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A suite of open-source applications (for small- to medium-sized businesses) that provides a number of business support applications
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| copyleft
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Per Wikipedia:
Copyleft (a play on the word "copyright") is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.
Copyleft is a form of licensing, and can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works ranging from computer software, to documents, to art. In general, copyright law is used by an author to prohibit recipients from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of their work. In contrast, under copyleft, an author may give every person who receives a copy of the work permission to reproduce, adapt, or distribute it, with the accompanying requirement that any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing agreement.
Copyleft licenses (for software) require that information necessary for reproducing and modifying the work must be made available to recipients of the binaries. The source code files will usually contain a copy of the license terms and acknowledge the author(s).
Copyleft type licenses are a novel use of existing copyright law to ensure a work remains freely available. The GNU General Public License, originally written by Richard Stallman, was the first software copyleft license to see extensive use, and continues to dominate in that area. Creative Commons, a non-profit organization founded by Lawrence Lessig, provides a similar license provision condition called ShareAlike.
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| Cosmos
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C# Open Source Managed Operating System
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| COTS
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Commercial, off-the-shelf
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| CROMERR
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Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) (or typically 40 CFR Part 3), an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule specifying how electronic reporting should be performed for the EPA's various regulatory programs
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| Cygwin
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A collection of tools that emulate a Linux environment, allowing Linux applications to be compiled for and executed in a MS Windows environment
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| data loading
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The loading of data into static tables, including test definitions, sample container descriptions, location information, etc.
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| database-agnostic
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Indicates an application capable of running with database systems from any vendor
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| digital commons
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Name given to a collaboratively developed online resource that is managed by a community of people
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| DMOZ
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Also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP), an attempt to create the largest human curated open-content directory of web links (Originates from one of its earlier domain names, directory.mozilla.org)
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| Docker
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A system designed to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized software container using an alternate architectural approach than a virtual machine, while providing similar resource isolation in a smaller footprint
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| Documentation, Administrator
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Documentation for a system designed to be issued to a system administrator, providing information on configuring and operating the application
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| Documentation, Developer
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Documentation for a system designed to be issued to a system developer, providing detailed information on how the system operates and is structured as well as how to alter the system code and extract data from the system in an ad hoc manner
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| Documentation, User
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Documentation for a system designed to be issued to a user, helping to guide the user through using the application
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| DOI
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Digital object identifier (DOI), a character string identifier used to uniquely identify an electronic document (In many instances a scientific/technical publication will have a DOI printed on it, allowing you to access or purchase the article on-line; standardized under ISO 26324.)
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| Drizzle
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A MySQL 6.0-derived database optimized for cloud computing
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| Drupal
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An open-source application designed for creating and managing a variety of web sites
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| Eclipse
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A Java-based integrated development environment that can be customized via use of community-developed plug-ins
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| EDD
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Electronic data delivery or electronic data deliverable
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| EHR
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Electronic health record
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| Elasticsearch
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An open-source search engine employing a RESTful (see REST) interface, built on Apache Lucene
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| ELN
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Electronic laboratory notebook
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| EMR
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Electronic medical record
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| EPA
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
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| ERP
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Enterprise resource planning, typically constituting a variety of integrated applications, with a shared database, that integrates critical business functions such as accounting, human resources, customer relationship management, inventory and order tracking, etc. into a single system
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| F/OSS
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Free/open-source software (See FOSS)
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| FAME
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Filter, Analyze, Measure, and Evaluate (FAME) methodology for evaluating open-source applications
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| FDA
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United States Food and Drug Administration
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| Fedora
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A version of the Linux operating system sponsored by Red Hat
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| Firefox
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One of a number of open-source web browsers that can be highly customized via the use of member-developed "plug-ins"
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| FLOSS
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Per Wikipedia:
The acronym FLOSS was coined in 2001 by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh for "free/libre and open-source software." Later that year, the European Commission (EC) used the phrase when they funded a study on the topic.
Unlike "libre software," which aimed to solve the ambiguity problem, FLOSS aimed to avoid taking sides in the debate over whether it was better to say "free software" or to say "open-source software"
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| FLOSShub
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Per FLOSS Research Group:
FLOSShub is a portal for free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) research resources and discussion. FLOSShub's goal is to provide a central location for connecting researchers and FLOSS community members to research papers, data, tools, and most importantly, community.
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| Forge
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Per Wikipedia:
In FLOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications. (The word derives from the metalworking forge, used for shaping metal parts.) A forge platform is generally able to host multiple independent projects.
For software developers it is a place to host, among others, source code (often version-controlled), bug database and documentation for their projects. For users, a forge is a repository of computer applications.
Software forges have become popular, and have proven successful as a software development model for a large number of software projects.
The term forge refers to a common prefix or suffix adopted by various platforms created after the example of SourceForge (such as GForge and FusionForge).
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| Forking
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The process where a group takes an open-source application's source code and starts developing it in an independent direction from the original program
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| FOSS
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Per Wikipedia:
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is computer software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software. That is, anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software. This is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright and the source code is usually hidden from the users.
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| Free software
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See Software, Free
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