30-letter words containing n, o, d, c, t, r
- resource description framework — (web, specification, data) (RDF) A specification being developed in 2000 by the W3C as a foundation for processing metadata regarding resources on the Internet, including the web. Resource Description Framework data consists of resources (nodes), and property/value pairs describing the resource. A node is any object which can be pointed to by a URI, properties are attributes of the node, and values can be either atomic values for the attribute, or other nodes. For example, information about a particular web page (a node), might include the property "Author". The value for the Author property could be either a string giving the name of the author, or a link to a resource describing the author. Resource Description Framework only specifies a mechanism for encoding and transferring metadata. It does not specify what that metadata should, or can be. RDF does not, for example, define an "Author" attribute. Sets of properties are defined within RDF Vocabularies (or Schemas). Anynone can create an RDF schema, describing a specialized set of properties, by creating a resource, referenced by the Schema URI, which provides a human- and machine-understandable definition of the schema's properties. The description of a node may include properties defined in different schemas. The properties within a resource description are associated with a certain schema definition using the XML namespace mechanism. Schemas currently being developed include a content screening system modeled after PICS, and a bibliographic vocabulary, such as the Dublin Core Initiative.
- restructured extended executor — (language) (REXX, or "System Product Interpreter", originally known as "REX") A scripting language for IBM VM and MVS systems, developed by M. Cowlishaw at IBM ca. 1979, replacing EXEC2. Versions: PC-Rexx for MS-DOS, AREXX for the Amiga, the OS/2 implementation from IBM, WINREXX (Rexx for Windows, from Quercus systems) and Personal Rexx (Rexx for MS-DOS, from Quercus systems). See also Regina, freerexx, imc.
- social security administration — a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, created in 1946, that administers federal Social Security programs. Abbreviation: SSA.
- to close the door on something — If someone closes the door on something, they stop thinking about it or dealing with it.
- to give someone credit for sth — To give someone credit for a good quality means to believe that they have it.
- to put your cards on the table — If you put or lay your cards on the table, you deal with a situation by speaking openly about your feelings, ideas, or plans.
- to some/a certain degree (etc) — You use expressions such as to some degree, to a large degree, or to a certain degree in order to indicate that something is partly true, but not entirely true.
- united nations children's fund — UNICEF.
- universities funding committee — formerly, the central higher education funding council in the UK, which was replaced after 1992 by three separate councils: the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Scottish Funding Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
- upright database technology ab — (company) The Swedish company that developed the Mimer SQL database.
- weights and measures inspector — an official who is responsible for ensuring that traders use standard units of measurement; a trading standards officer