Digital Glossary

The Royal Victorian Order (French: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, currently the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of their family, or any viceroy.

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution.

A line of dots or dashes on a form or document.

The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress, but which is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States.

Kunta Kinte (c. 1750 – c. 1822; /ˈkuːntɑː ˈkɪnteɪ/ KOON-tah KIN-tay) is a character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. According to Haley, Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots was a mixture of fact and fiction. The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.

One kilohertz (abbreviated: kHz) is equal to 1,000 hertz. Like hertz, kilohertz is used to measure frequency, or cycles per second. Since one hertz represents one cycle per second, one kilohertz is equal to 1,000 cycles per second.

The term actually stands for 'Joint Photographic Experts Group,' because that is the name of the committee that developed the format. But you don't have to remember that because even computer nerds will think you're weird if you mention what JPEG stands for. Instead, remember that a JPEG is a compressed image file format. JPEG images are not limited to a certain amount of color, like GIF images are. Therefore, the JPEG format is best for compressing photographic images. So if you see a large, colorful image on the Web, it is most likely a JPEG file.

Like Java, this is a programming language designed by Sun Microsystems, in conjunction with Netscape, that can be integrated into standard HTML pages. Web developers can use JavaScript to validate form input, create image rollovers, and to open those annoying pop-up windows.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of 'universal access to all knowledge.' It provides permanent storage of and free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

Hyper-threading is a technology developed by Intel Corporation. Hyper-threading allows two streams to be executed in parallel, it is almost like having two separate processors working together.

Human rights defenders or human rights activists are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistle-blowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campaigners, and so on. They can defend rights as part of their jobs or in a voluntary capacity. As a result of their activities, they can sometimes be the subject of reprisals and attacks of all kinds, including smears, surveillance, harassment, false charges, arbitrary detention, restrictions on the right to freedom of association, and physical attacks.

Stands for 'HyperText Transport Protocol Secure.' HTTPS is the same thing as HTTP, but uses a secure socket layer (SSL) for security purposes. Some examples of sites that use HTTPS include banking and investment websites, ecommerce websites, and most websites that require you to log in.Websites that use the standard HTTP protocol transmit and receive data in an unsecured manner. This means it is possible for someone to eavesdrop on the data being transferred between the user and the Web server.

The term Honours degree has different meanings for different degrees. Most commonly it is an award in connection with undergraduate Bachelor's degree variations.

Hip Hop Republican is a combined music and politics blog that started in 2004 by Richard Ivory. Ivory says that he started the blog in part because of frustration with the belief that blacks must be Democrats. The blog was credited with giving conservative blacks a sense of community during the 2008 presidential election when they were often expected to vote in solidarity with Barack Obama.The blog has since expanded to feature many other commentators alongside Ivory, including Lenny McAllister and Shirley Husar. The term 'Hip-Hop Republican' as popularized by the blog has become an identity for some young black Republicans.

High-resolution audio (High-definition audio or HD audio) is a technical and marketing term for audio with greater than 44.1 kHz sample rate or higher than 16-bit audio bit depth. It commonly refers to 96 kHz or 192 kHz sample rates, producing a Nyquist frequency of 48 kHz or more. However, there also exist 44.1 kHz/24-bit, 48 kHz/24-bit and 88.2 kHz/24-bit recordings that are labeled HD Audio. Research into high resolution audio began in the late 1980s and high resolution audio content started to become available on the consumer market in 1996.