Acronyms

List of Acronyms:
 * .shp: extension name of shapefiles, a popular GIS data format
 * .dbf: extension name of a database file, file containing data on the associated shapefile
 * APAAT: African Protected Area Assessment Tool, []
 * DOPA: Digital Observatory for Protected Areas, []
 * CSW: OGC's Catalogue Service for the Web. []
 * GIS: Geographic Information Systems
 * HRI: Habitat irReplaceability Indicator.
 * IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
 * IUCN red list of threatened species: IUCN's ranking of species according to their conservation status. Core categories are Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered. []
 * JRC: the Joint Research Centre providing scientific and technical support to the European Commission.
 * OGC: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. []
 * PA: Protected Area
 * Shapefile: a GIS file format
 * SOA: Service Oriented Architecture
 * SRI: Species irReplaceability Indicator
 * WCS: OGC's Web Coverage Service (WCS) for serving gridded and raster datat. []
 * WFS: OGC's Web Feature Service for serving boundaries encoded in Geography Markup Language (GML). []
 * WDPA: World Database on Protected Areas. []
 * WMS: OGC Web Map Service for serving map images. []