| Acronym / Term (URL) | Type | Expansion | Dutch expansion |
| AAI | software | Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure | |
| AGORA | project | ||
| Anéla | organisation | Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics | |
| ANP | company | National Netherlands News Agency | Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau |
| ANP RBC | data | ANP Radio Bulletin Collection | |
| ANWB | organisation | Dutch automobile association | Algemene Nederlandse Wielrijdersbond |
| Asymenc | project | Asymmetrical Encounters: Digital Humanities Approaches to Reference Cultures in Europe, 1815–1992; HERA Project | |
| AV | term | Audio-Visual | |
| AVAtech | project | Advancing Video Audio Technology in Humanities Research | |
| AXES | project | Acces to AudioVisual Archives | |
| BG | organisation | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid |
| BIGGrid | project | Dutch eScience Grid | |
| BioPort | data | Biographic Portal | Biografisch Portaal |
| Birth of TV | project | Birth Television Archive | |
| BlackLab | project | ||
| BLARK | term | Basic Language Resource Kit | |
| BRIDGE | project | Building Rich Links to Enable Television History Research | |
| BSON | software | Binary JSON | |
| CATCH | project | NWO Programme Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage | |
| CATCHPlus | project | ||
| CDH | organisation | Centre for Digital Humanities | |
| CELEX | data | Dutch Centre for Lexical Information | |
| Center for Language Studies | organisation | Centre for Language Studies | |
| CESSDA | infrastructure | Council of European Social Science Data Archives | |
| CGN | data | Spoken Dutch Corpus | Corpus Gesproken Nederlands |
| CHAT | organisation | Centre for Humanities and Technology | |
| CHIP | project | Project in the CATCH programme | |
| CHOICE | project | Project in the CATCH programme | |
| CineXPRES | project | ||
| CIO | term | Chief Integration Officer | |
| CLARIAH | infrastructure | Common Lab Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities | |
| CLARIAH-SEED | infrastructure project | CLARIAH Seed Capital project | |
| CLARIN | infrastructure | The CLARIN infrastructure | |
| CLARIN ERIC | organisation | ||
| CLARIN-EU | infrastructure project | The European CLARIN enterprise | |
| CLARIN-NL | infrastructure project | The Netherlands national project for CLARIN | |
| CLARIN-PP | infrastructure project | The European CLARIN preparatory phase project | |
| CLARIN-prep | infrastructure project | The European CLARIN preparatory phase project | |
| CLCG | organisation | Center for Language and Cognition Groningen | |
| CLICKNL | organisation | ||
| CLIN | conference | Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (local conference) | |
| Clio Infra | infrastructure | ||
| CLIO-DAP | project | ||
| CLS | organisation | Centre for Language Studies | |
| CLST | organisation | Centre for Language and Speech Technology | |
| CLUE | organisation | Research institute for the heritage and history of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment | |
| CMDI | software | Component MetaData Infrastructure | |
| COGIS | organisation | Dutch expert centre on the (psycho)social effects of war, persecution, aggression and violence | Kennisinstituut sociale en psychische gevolgen van oorlog, vervolging en geweld |
| Comerda | software | ||
| COMMIT | project | ||
| COREX | software | Corpus Exploitation Tool | |
| Cornetto | data | ||
| CPG | organisation | Centre for Parliamentary History | Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis |
| CTIT | organisation | Centre for Telematics and Information Technology | |
| CTO | term | Chief Technical Officer | |
| Culturele Dynamiek | programme | Cultural Dynamics | Culturele Dynamiek |
| D3 | software | Data Driven Documents | |
| DAM-LR | project | Distributed Access Management for Language Resources | |
| DANS | organisation | Data Archiving and Networking Services | |
| DARIAH | infrastructure | Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities | |
| DARIAH-EU | infrastructure project | The European DARIAH enterprise | |
| DARIAH-NL | infrastructure project | DARIAH in the Netherlands | |
| DARIAH-PP | infrastructure project | DARIAH Preparatory Phase Project | |
| DASISH | infrastructure project | Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and the Humanities | |
| DBNL | organisation | Digital Library for Dutch Literature | |
| D-COI | data | ||
| DCR | data | Data Category Registry | |
| DiDDD | data | Diversity in Dutch DP Design | |
| DLU | organisation | Dutch Language Union | |
| DOBES | project | Documentation of Endangered Languages | |
| Dynamics of Memory | programme | Dynamics of Memory | |
| DynaSAND | software | Dynamic Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects | Dynamische Syntactische Atlas van de Nederlandse Dialecten |
| EAGLES | project | Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards | |
| EC | organisation | European Commission | |
| EDBO | data | Early Dutch Books Online | |
| eHg | organisation | eHumanities Group | |
| EHPS-Net | organisation | ||
| EHRI | infrastructure project | European Holocaust Research Infrastructure | |
| eHumanities Group | organisation | KNAW eHumanities Group | |
| EIP | instrument | European Innovation Partnerships | |
| ELAN | software | EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (Annotation Tool) | |
| ElasticSearch | software | open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud | |
| ePistolarium | software | ||
| ERC | organisation | European Research Council | |
| ERIC | organisation | European Research Infrastructure Consortium | |
| ESF EURYI | grant programme | European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Awards | |
| ESFRI | organisation | European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures | |
| EU | organisation | European Union | |
| EUDAT | project | European Data Infrastructure | |
| EUR | organisation | Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
| European Film Gateway | organisation | ||
| Europeana | data | ||
| EURYI | grant programme | European Science Foundation European Young Investigator Awards | |
| EUScreen | project | ||
| EUScreenXL | project | successor of EUscreen | |
| eXist | software | Native XML database | |
| EYE | organisation | EYE Fim Museum Amsterdam | |
| FA | organisation | Fryske Akademy | |
| FIDLR | project | Framework for the Interoperability of Dutch Language Resources | |
| FIDLR-Start | project | Project to prepare the FIDLR project proposal | |
| FlareNet | project | Fostering Language Resources Network, European Network project. | |
| FlockDB | software | Distibuted Fault-Tolerant Graph Database | |
| FP7 | programme | Framework Programme 7 (European Union) | |
| Frontwise | company | ||
| GIA | organisation | ||
| GIS | term | Geographic Information System | |
| Global labour | project | Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000 | |
| Gridline | company | ||
| GTRP | project | Goeman, Taeldeman, van Reenen Project | |
| HERA | organisation | Humanities in the European Research Area | |
| HI | organisation | Huygens ING Institute | |
| HI-POD | project | Historical Patterns of Development | |
| HLT | term | Human Language Technologies | |
| HLZ | project | HSN LINKS Zeeland | |
| HSN | infastructure | Historical Sample of the Netherlands | |
| HSS | term | Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| HvA | organisation | Amsterdam High School | Hogeschool van Amsterdam |
| IAP | term | International Advisory Panel | |
| IARPA SESAME Project | project | Video SEarch with Speed and Accuracy for Multimedia Events | |
| IBM | company | International Business Machines | |
| IBM NL | company | IBM Netherlands | |
| ICON UU | organisation | Institute for Cultural Inquiry Utrecht University | |
| ICORDI | project | ||
| ICPSR | organisation | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research | |
| ICT | term | Information and Communication Technology | |
| ID | term | Identifier | |
| IIAV | organisation | International Information Centre and Archive for the Women's Movement | Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging |
| IISG | organisation | International Institute for Social History | Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis |
| IISH | organisation | International Institute for Social History | Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis |
| Images for the Future | project | Beelden voor de Toekomst | |
| IMDI | software | ISLE MetaData Initiative | |
| IMIX | project | NWO programme for Interactive Multimodal Information eXtraction | |
| iMmovator | network | Cross media Network | |
| ivdNt | organisation | Institute for the Dutch Language | Instituut voor de Nederlandse taal |
| Institute for Historical Literature and Cultural Studies | organisation | ||
| INTERA | project | Integrated European language data Repository Area | |
| Interop | project | NSF Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks Programme | |
| IOP | programme | Innovation-targeted Research Programmes | Innovatiegerichte Onderzoeksprogramma's |
| IPR | term | Intellectual Property Rights | |
| ISLA | organisation | Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam | |
| ISLE | project | International Standards for Language Engineering | |
| ISO | organisation | International Standards Organisation | |
| ISO TC37/SC4 | standard | ISO Subcommittee focusing on Language Resource Management | |
| ISOcat | data | Project to implement the ISO DCR standard | |
| JSON | software | JavaScript Object Notation | |
| KB | organisation | National Library of the Netherlands | |
| KB Newspaper Archive | data | Royal Library Newspaper Archive | Koninklijke Bibliotheek Krantenarchief |
| KDC | organisation | Catholic Documentation Centre | Katholiek Documentatie Centrum |
| KITLV | organisation | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies | Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
| KNAW | organisation | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| KNAW Over Grenzen | programme | KNAW Grant Program | |
| Knowledge Concepts | company | ||
| LDE CGHD | organisation | Leiden Delft Erasmus Center for Global Heritage and Development | |
| LINKS | project | ||
| LinkTV | project | ||
| LIRICS | project | Linguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems | |
| LMF | standard | Lexical Markup Framework | |
| Lorentz | organisation | Lorentz Center | |
| LOT | organisation | Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics | Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde |
| LRT | term | Language Resources and Technologies | |
| LT | term | Language Technology | |
| LUCAS | organisation | Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society | |
| Maddison Project | project | ||
| MAND | data | Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dialects | |
| Meertens | organisation | Meertens Institute | |
| Meertens Institute | organisation | Meertens Institute | |
| Merdes | software | Media Researchers Data Exploration Suite | |
| META-NET | project | ||
| META-SHARE | sharing facility | ||
| METS | standard | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard | |
| MPG | organisation | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | |
| MPI | organisation | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | |
| MT | term | Management Team | |
| MU | organisation | Maastricht University | |
| MuSeUM | project | Project in the CATCH programme | |
| Nederlab | project | CLARIAH-Seed demonstration project | |
| NIAS | organisation | Netherlands Institute of Applied Science | |
| NIOD | organisation | Netherlands Institute for War Documentation | Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie |
| NISV | organisation | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid |
| NL | country | the Netherlands | |
| NLeSc | organisation | Netherlands eScience Centre | |
| NLP | term | Natural Language Processing | |
| NOTaS | organisation | Dutch Organisation for Language and Speech Technology | Nederlandse Organisatie voor Taal- en Spraaktechnologie |
| Noterik | company | Noterik BV | |
| NSF | organisation | ||
| NWO | organisation | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research | |
| NWO Creative Industry | grant programme | NWO grant programme: Creative Industry | |
| NWO Open Competitions | grant programme | NWO grant programme: Open Competition | |
| NWO-Groot | grant programme | NWO Infrastructure Investment Fund | |
| OAI | organisation | Open Archives Initiative | |
| OAI/PMH | standard | Protocol for Metadata Harvesting | |
| OAuth2 | software | Oauth 2.0 | |
| OHT | project | Oral History Today | |
| OLAC | standard | Open Languages Archive Community | |
| OpenSONAR | project | ||
| OWL | standard | OWL Web Ontology Language | |
| PC | organisation | Programme Committee | |
| PCM | company | large publisher in the Netherlands (Perscombinatie Meulenhoff & Co) | |
| Picturae | company | ||
| PID | term | Persistent Identifier | |
| Pionier Grant | grant programme | specific type of grant awarded by NWO in the past | |
| PMH | standard | Protocol for Metadata Harvesting | |
| POS | term | Part of Speech | |
| Posthumus Institute | organisation | ||
| PR | term | Public Relations | |
| R&D | term | Research and Development | |
| RCE | organisation | Cultural Heritage Agency | |
| RDA | project | Research Data Alliance | |
| RDF | standard | Resource Description Framework | |
| Readspeaker | company | ||
| Redis | software | Open Source Key-Value Store | |
| RKD | organisation | Netherlands Institute for Art History | |
| RUG | organisation | Groningen University | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| RUN | organisation | Radboud University Nijmegen | |
| SAMPA | standard | Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet | |
| SAND | data | Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects | Syntactische Atlas van de Nederlandse Dialecten |
| SARA | organisation | Foundation Academic Computing Centre Amsterdam | |
| SEALINCMedia | project | Socially-enriched access to linked cultural media | |
| Seecr | company | Software Craftmanship | |
| SKOS | standard | Simple Knowledge Organization System | |
| SME | term | Small and Medium Enterprises | |
| SO | term | Support Office | |
| SOA | standard | Service Oriented Architecture | |
| SONAR | data | ||
| SPARQL | software | Query Language for RDF | |
| SPEX | organisation | Speech Processing Expertise Centre (RU, Nijmegen) | |
| SPIN | grant programme | NWO Programme in the 90s | SPraak In Nederland |
| SPINlab | organisation | Spatial Information laboratory VU | |
| Spinoza Grant | grant | specific type of grant awarded by NWO | |
| Spinque | company | a technology spin-off from Centrum voor Wiskunde & Informatica | |
| SQL | standard | Structured Query Language | |
| STEVIN | project | Dutch-Flemish programme for realizing the BLARK and HLT research for Dutch | |
| STITCH | project | Project in the CATCH programme | |
| SURFnet | organisation | University Network Services Organisation | |
| SURFsara | organisation | ||
| SWOT | term | Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat Analysis | |
| Target Holding | company | ||
| TB | term | Technical Board | |
| TBDL | organisation | Tilburg Big Data Lab | |
| TDS | software | Typological Database System | |
| TEEZIR | company | TEEZIR | |
| TEI | standard | Text Encoding Initiative | |
| Telecats | company | ||
| TERENA | project | Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association | |
| Thaesis | company | ||
| TBDL | organisation | Tilburg Dig Data Lab | |
| Tilburg University School of Humanities | organisation | ||
| TLA | organisation | The Language Archive | |
| TransAtlantis | project | NWO Horizon Programme about the influence of the US on public debates in the Netherlands | |
| TROVA | software | ||
| TROVe | software | TransMedia Observatory | |
| Tweede Kamer BIP | organisation | Dutch Parliament Office for Automation and Projects | Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal Bureau voor Informatisering en Projecten |
| Tweede Kamer DIV | organisation | Dutch Parliament Information Service | Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal Dienst InformatieVoorziening |
| UBU | organisation | Utrecht University Library | |
| UC Davis | organisation | University California Davis | |
| UIL-OTS | organisation | Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS | |
| UM | organisation | University of Maastricht | |
| UT | organisation | University of Twente | |
| UU | organisation | Utrecht University | |
| UvA | organisation | University of Amsterdam | |
| Vancis | company | ||
| VCC | organisation | Virtual Competency Centre | |
| VerteldVerleden | project | Open Platform for Oral History | |
| VICI | grant programme | specific type of grant awarded by NWO | |
| Video Active | project | ||
| VIDI | grant programme | specific type of grant awarded by NWO | |
| VLO | software | Virtual Language Observatory | |
| VRE | software | Virtual Research Environment | |
| VSNU | organisation | Association of Collaborating Dutch Universities | Vereniging van Universiteiten |
| VU | organisation | VU University of Amsterdam | |
| VVV | organisation | Touristic Office | |
| WAYF | standard | Where Are You From | |
| WMTC | organisation | Netherlands Research School of Science,Technology and Modern Culture | |
| WP | term | Work Package | |
| WTMC | organisation | Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technolog yand Modern Culture | |
| Xpath | standard | XML Path Language | |
| Xquery | standard | W3C XML Query | |
| xTAS | software | Text Analysis in a Timely Manner |
