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Including appropriate standards, protocols, and guidelines. See also the Library Software Manifesto and The Top Ten Things Library Administrators Should Know About Technology.

• Ajax — Asynchronous Javascript and XML
• APIs — Library Application Program Interfaces (structured methods for software programs to interact)
• Dublin Core — A "core" metadata format
• ERM: Electronic Resource Management
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), A conceptual model for bibliographic information that is having profound effects on libraries.
• OpenURL, a framework for context-sensitive linking.
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) — A technique for sharing and harvesting metadata over the Internet
• Open source software (OSS) — "Free" software supported by subsets of the Internet community and some commerical institutions
• Podcasting - audio broadcast in MP3 format that is syndicated via RSS
• RFID — Radio Frequency Identification
• Social Software
• Instant Messenging (IM) — tool that allows two people to hold a live text-based conversation
• RSS — a format for syndicating content on the Web and a tool for coping with information overload.
• Wiki — tool that allows a group of people to collaboratively develop a Web site with little tech experience.
• SRW/U — Search/Retrieve via the Web or URL, an XML-based protocol to replace Z39.50
• Tagging — users supply their own descriptive terms for resources.
• XML — Extensible Markup Language
  • TEI — Text Encoding Initiative, a markup frequently applied against narrative texts like novels
  • XSLT — Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
  • OPML — Outline Processor Markup Language
• Web Design
  • Unicode — system for representing the world's languages on computers