Technology Glossary

Term	Definition	Link
Portal	A Web portal or public portal refers to a Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls.
remote annotations
georeference	to define something's existence in physical space	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georeference
dataset	collection of data, usually presented in tabular form	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set
Geovisualization	a set of tools and techniques supporting geospatial data analysis through the use of interactive visualization	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geovisualization
Cyberinfrastructure	research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond the scope of a single institution	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberinfrastructure
electron micrograph	micrograph prepared using an electron microscope
micrograph	a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrograph#Electron_micrograph
Virtualization	the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
hack-a-thon	event in which computer programmers and others in the field of software development, like graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Application Programming Interfaces (API)	specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Optical character recognition (OCR)	the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
bioinformatics	branch of biological science which deals with the study of methods for storing, retrieving and analyzing biological data, such as nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) and protein sequence, structure, function, pathways and genetic interactions	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
Natural Language Processing (NLP)	a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
dissemination	to broadcast a message to the public without direct feedback from the audience	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissemination
metadata		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
Structural metadata	design and specification of data structures	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
Descriptive metadata	individual instances of application data, the data content	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
key-stroking	the action of tracking (or logging) the keys struck on a keyboard	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging
data migration.	process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_migration
Gene Ontology	major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ontology
ontology	formally represents knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships among those concepts	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)