The following abbreviations and terms are used in this document. Additional definitions can be found in the CDISC Glossary (available at https://www.cdisc.org/standards/glossary).
| ADaM | Analysis Data Model |
| ADSL | (ADaM) Subject-level Dataset |
| AE | Adverse event |
| API | Application programming interface |
| ARD | Analysis results dataset |
| ARM | Analysis results metadata |
| ARS | Analysis Results Standard (Model) |
| ARS-UG | Analysis Results Standard Users Guide |
| CSR | Clinical study report |
| DDL | Data definition language |
| ER Diagram | Entity Relationship Diagram |
| FDA | (US) Food and Drug Administration |
| GraphQL | Open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs |
| HTML | Hypertext markup language |
| JSON | JavaScript object notation |
| OWL | Web ontology language |
| Portable document format | |
| RDF | Resource description framework |
| RTF | Rich text format |
| SAP | Statistical analysis plan |
| SDTM | Study Data Tabulation Model |
| ShEx | Shape expressions (language describing RDF graph structures) |
| SQL | Structured query language |
| XML | Extensible markup language |
| YAML | YAML ain't markup language; human-readable data serialization language |