Hi all,
I am writing to let you know of a new initiative within our community -
the OSGeo Glossary - led by the Lexicon committee (in formation) with
the scope of defining and managing geospatial terms across communities.
First operative steps have already been made with setting up OSGeo
Geolexica [1] for managing the lexicon database, as well as an initial
load of terms that was done by a bulk load from cleaned terms and
definitions compiled by the GeoForAll group.
The work is done in collaboration with folks from ISO/TC 211, OGC and
The Good Docs Project [2] that have joined the Lexicon committee, which
is very constructive given their decades long experience in terminology,
as well as helping us with cross-organization alignment of concepts or
avoiding term duplication.
Gracefully helping us with the groundwork are two experienced technical
writers that I’d like to introduce to our community, Ankita and Naini -
in cc. Their contributions will support us in doing a clean, sharp job
when it comes to the actual process of glossary construction.
A next big step for the Lexicon Committee is setting up pilot glossary
projects for specific OSGeo projects, irrespective of their status,
incubated, in the process or community. So, if this could be of interest
to you, please let me, Cameron, Ankita or Naini know or by joining and
presenting yourself on the Lexicon mailing list [3] or Slack channel [4].
Cheers and stay safe,
Codrina
[1] https://osgeo.geolexica.org/
[2] https://thegooddocsproject.dev/
[3] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/lexicon
[4]
https://thegooddocs.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-be2gay0m-Ukq_5SI0MHp20IQP3auQjg#/
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