Template:Abbr

This template allows to add a description for an abbreviation in form of a tooltip (HTML title tag).

Usage: {{abbr|abbreviated text|explanation}}

Example: {{abbr|abbr.|abbreviation}} → abbr.

There are also some default abbreviations that get automatically explained (see list below):

{{abbr|HTML}}

HTML

Parameters

|1= 

mandatory: the actual abbreviation to be shown

|2= 

optional or mandatory: the explanation of the abbreviation (i.e. the hidden HTML title that gets shown on mouse over; default explanations see in the list of default abbreviations)

|3= 

lang attribute

List of Default Abbreviations

ABCD

Access to Biological Collection Databases

ABCDEFG

Access to Biological Collection Databases Extended for Geosciences

AC

Audubon Core

API

Application programming interface

BGBM

Botanical Garden and Museum Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

BGM

Agentschap Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden Meise; Meise, Belgium)

CETAF

Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities

CETAF-ID

Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities—Identifier

CSIC

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid, Spain)

CSPP

CETAF Specimen Preview Profile

DC

Dublin Core

DCMI

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

DCRM

Descriptive Cataloguing of Rare Materials

DwC

Darwin Core

DS

Digital Specimen

GBIF

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier

GUIDs

Globally Unique Identifiers

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HUH

Harvard University Herbaria

HUJI

The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)

ICBN

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

ID

Identifier

IIIF

International Image Interoperability Framework (also triple-I-F)

IRI

Internationalized Resource Identifier (defined in RFC 3987)

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ISTC

Information Science & Technology committee

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

LCGFT

Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

LCNAF

Library of Congress Name Authority File

LCSH

Library of Congress Subject Headings

LOD

Linked Open Data

LSID

Life Sciences Identifier

LUOMUS

Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo (Finnish Museum of Natural History; Helsinki, Finland)

MNHN

Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France)

MRTG

Multimedia Resource Task Group

MW

Media Wiki

MfN

Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum; Berlin, Germany)

NHM

Natural History Museum (London, United Kingdom)

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna, Austria)

NHMUO

Natural History Museum—University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)

NRM

Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden)

NSId

Natural Science Identifiers

OBO

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies

OWL DL

Ontology Web Language description logics

OWL

Ontology Web Language

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PID

Process ID

RBGE

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

RBGK

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (Kew, United Kingdom)

RBINS

Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique (Brussels, Belgium)

RDA

Resource Description and Access

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RMCA

Musee Royal De L'Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium)

SGN

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (Senckenberg Society for Natural Sciences; Frankfurt, Germany)

SKOS

Simple Knowledge Organization System

SMNS

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart; Germany)

SMW

Semantic Media Wiki

SNSB

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (Bavarian Natural History Collections; Munich, Germany)

SPARQL

SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language

TDWG

Taxonomic Databases Working Group

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URIs

Uniform Resource Identifiers

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

URLs

Uniform Resource Locators

URN

Uniform Resource Name

URNs

Uniform Resource Names

WGS84

World Geodetic System 1984

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSLT

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (Bonn, Germany)