Glossary of terms and acronyms

AAT

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

AFDA

Administrative Functions Disposal Authority

AGLS

Australian Government Locator Service

ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

APS

Australian Public Service

APSC

Australian Public Service Commission

ARC

Australian Research Council

ASA

Australian Society of Archivists

ATSIC

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

BCI

Building Condition Index

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CITRA

International Conference of the Round Table on Archives

COFSTA

Council of Federal, State and Territory Archives

DIRKS

Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems

DVA

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

ELM

Electronic Load Mechanism

Archives’ suite of recordkeeping products

FOI

Freedom of Information

ICA

International Council on Archives

IiP

Investors in People

ISAAR (CFP)

International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families

ISO

International Standards Organisation

IT

Information Technology

KPMG

Archives’ contracted internal auditor

NOAN

National Online Archival Network

NOIE

National Office for the Information Economy

OASIS

A not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards

PARBICA

Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives

PhotoSearch

Archives’ photographic database

PROV

Public Record Office Victoria

RecordSearch

Archives’ database of record items, record series and record creators

RMAA

Records Management Association of Australasia

SES

Senior Executive Service

TTY

Teletypewriter

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

WC3

World Wide Web Consortium

XML DTD

Extensible Mark-up Language Document Type Definition