| API | Application programming interface |
| CASRN | Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number |
| CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology |
| CSV | Comma-separated values |
| ECHA | European Chemicals Agency |
| EDL | Excel Data Location |
| EUON | European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials |
| FAIR | Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability |
| GUI | Graphical user interface |
| IHCP | Institute for Health and Consumer Protection |
| IOM | Institute of Occupational Medicine |
| ISA–JSON | Investigation/Study/Assay JavaScript Object Notation |
| ISA–Tab | Investigation/Study/Assay Tab-delimited |
| IUCLID | International Uniform Chemical Information Database |
| JRC | Joint Research Centre |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| JSON–LD | JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data |
| KNIME | Konstanz Information Miner |
| Nano–EHS | Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NM | nanomaterial(s) |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| QSAR | Quantitative structure–activity relationship |
| QSPR | Quantitative structure-property relationship |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| REACH | Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals |
| REST | Representational state transfer |
| SOP | Standard operating procedure |
| SPARQL | SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language |
| UUID | Universally unique identifier |
| WAXD | Wide-angle X-ray scattering |