Today has been a day dominated by ETD, OAI, PMH, CDE, and even CPU, DVD, FMG, XSL, XML, CSS, and more. Before I dash away to get ready to discuss five- and six-letter acronyms (NDIIP and LOCKSS), here’s a ditty regarding the shorter kind:
Acronym Soup
(Sung to “Three Little Maids from School”
from The Mikado)
By Thomas Dowling
(digital muckety-muck at Ohiolink
and frequent poster to Web4Lib)
Three-letter acronyms can be
Very confusing as you’ll see.
Harder than trigonometry—
Three-letter acronyms!
XML is online for free . . .
FTP it from W3C . . .
Use XSL and a DTD . . .
Three-letter acronyms!
Three-letter acronyms are very
Likely to stump your whole library.
Only one thing is still more scary—
Four-letter acronyms!
q.v. 
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