| ACDD | Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery RD5 |
| ADC | Arctic Data Centre (ADC) |
| AeN | Arven etter Nansen (English: Nansen Legacy) |
| BUFR | Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data. WMO standard format for binary data, particularly for non-gridded data (BUFR) |
| CDM | Unidata Common Data Model (CDM) |
| CF | Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions (CF) |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CSW | Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) |
| DAP | Data access protocol (DAP) |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System (DBMS) |
| DIANA | Digital Analysis tool for visualisation of geodata, open source from MET Norway (DIANA) |
| diana-WMS | WMS implementation in DIANA |
| DIAS | Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) |
| DIF | Directory Interchange Format of GCMD (DIF) |
| DLM | Data life cycle management (DLM) |
| DM | Data Manager |
| DMH | Data Management Handbook (this document) |
| DMCG | Data Management Coordination Group |
| DMP | Data Management Plan (DMP definition, easyDMP tool) |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier (DOI) |
| EBAS | Database with atmospheric measurement data at NILU |
| eduGAIN | The Global Academic Interfederation Service (eduGAIN) |
| ENVRI | European Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI) |
| ENVRI FAIR | Making the ENV RIs data services FAIR." A proposal to the EU’s Horizon 2020 call INFRAEOSC-04 |
| EOSC | European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) |
| ERDDAP | NOAA Environmental Research Division Data Access Protocol (ERDDAP) |
| ESA | European Space Agency (ESA) |
| ESGF | Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) |
| EWC | European Weather Cloud () |
| FAIR | Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability RD3 |
| FEIDE | Identity Federation of the Norwegian National Research and Education Network (UNINETT) (FEIDE) |
| FFI | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) |
| FORCE11 | Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship (FORCE11) |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) |
| GCW | Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) |
| GeoAccessNO | An NFR-funded infrastructure project, 2015- (GeoAccessNO) |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GRIB | GRIdded Binary or General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form. WMO standard file format for gridded data (GRIB) |
| HDF, HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) |
| Hyrax | OPeNDAP 4 Data Server (Hyrax) |
| IMR | Institute of Marine Research (IMR) |
| INSPIRE | Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) |
| ISO 19115 | ISO standard for geospatial metadata (ISO 19115-1:2014). |
| IPY | International Polar Year (IPY) |
| JRCC | Joint Rescue Coordination centre (Hovedredningssentralen) |
| KDVH | KlimaDataVareHus |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator (KPI) |
| METCIM | MET Norway Crisis and Incident Management (METCIM) |
| METSIS | MET Norway Scientific Information System |
| MMD | Met.no Metadata Format MMD |
| MOAI | Meta Open Archives Initiative server (MOAI) |
| ncWMS | WMS implementation for NetCDF files (ncWMS) |
| NERSC | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) |
| NetCDF/CF | A common combination of NetCDF file format with CF-compliant attributes. |
| NFR | The Research Council of Norway (NFR) |
| NILU | Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) |
| NIVA | Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) |
| NMDC | Norwegian Marine Data Centre, NFR-supported infrastructure project 2013-2017 (NMDC) |
| NorDataNet | Norwegian Scientific Data Network, an NFR-funded project 2015-2020 (NorDataNet) |
| Norway Digital | Norwegian national spatial data infrastructure organisation (Norway Digital). Norwegian: Norge digitalt |
| NORMAP | Norwegian Satellite Earth Observation Database for Marine and Polar Research, an NFR-funded project 2010-2016 (NORMAP) |
| NRPA | Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure, USA (NSDI) |
| NVE | Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| OAI-PMH | Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System (OAIS) |
| OCEANOTRON | Web server dedicated to the dissemination of ocean in situ observation data collections (OCEANOTRON) |
| OECD | The organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developement. OECD |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
| OGC O&M OGC | Observations and Measurements standard (OGC O&M) |
| OLA | Operational-level Agreement (OLA) |
| OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) - reference server implementation |
| PID | Persistent Identifier (PID) |
| RM-ODP | Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) |
| PROV | A W3C Working Group on provenance and a Family of Documents (PROV) |
| SAON | Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON/IASC) |
| SDI | Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| SDN | SeaDataNet, Pan-European infrastructure for ocean & marine data management |
| SIOS | Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System |
| SIOS-KC | SIOS Knowledge Centre, an NFR-supported project 2015-2018 (SIOS-KC) |
| SKOS | Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) |
| SLA | Service-level Agreement (SLA) |
| SolR | Apache Enterprise search server with a REST-like API (SolR) |
| StInfoSys | MET Norway’s Station Information System |
| TDS | THREDDS Data Server (TDS) |
| THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| UNSDI | United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) |
| WCS | OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) |
| WFS | OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) |
| WIGOS | WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) |
| WIS | WMO Information System (WIS) |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) |
| WMS | OGC Web Map Service (WMS) |
| WPS | OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) |
| YOPP | Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP Data Portal) |