[LINK] {SPAM 01.1} Re: Categories for a community directory

[Tom Worthington]

On 13/03/12 11:26, Webb, KerryA wrote:

> ... AGLS is no longer an initialism, but
> a collection of letters that has no formal expansion. ...

Yes, AGLS started out as "AGILS" (Australian Government Information 
Locator Service). The name was derived from the US Government GILS. The 
"I" was dropped later.

See: "HTML Metadata Implementation Model", Appendix D, Report of the 
IMSC Technical Group, Commonwealth of Australia, 25 July 1996: 
http://web.archive.org/web/200012080057/http://www.defence.gov.au/imsc/imsctg/imsctg1c.htm#RTFToC86


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