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- Goals of the project
- Resources/funding
- Terminology management software
- Process that they will be following
- How the ESSIF Labs Concepts and Terminology project and the ToIP Concepts and Terminology WG could collaborate
Reiks Rieks shared the following links about eSSIF-Lab:
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Rieks explained that the goal of the EU project 'eSSIF-Lab' is to fund a set of other entities of all sizes (EU) SME's to work on SSI projects. He shared that the Concepts and Terminology work at eSSIF-Lab does not have its own dedicated funding.
He mentioned a German project that has been maintaining a consolidated terminology for identity and privacy that has had 34 revisions. So it's a big job.
The goal of the project as Rieks explained it is to develop 'purposeful terminology', i.e. terminologies that will actually be used for specific/various purposes, where:
- Each term has one meaning within one scope.one scope (one or more such purposes/objectives).
- the meaning of a (tangible) term is an (intangible) thought/idea, called a concept. The mapping is called a semantics.
- An alphabetically sorted list of such terms, which are appropriate to/relevant in one scope, A set of such terms appropriate to one scope is called a glossary.
- A similar list of terms that can have more than one meaning in from different scopes (which may have multiple meanings) is called a dictionary.
- If you need to map the terms together within and across scopes, you need a concept, pattern or mental model.
- A set of ideas/concepts that relate to each other in a way that is meaningful/purposeful in some scope, is called a pattern (or mental model). A pattern is documented using terms from its scope.
- Understanding each other across scopes requires an understanding of which terms mean what in which scopes.
Rieks explained that eSSIF-Lab is currently working out its software. Currently they are using Docusaurus. They are currently exploring how to produce the different deliverables in the previous bullet points.which kinds of deliverables are 'purposeful', (e.g. patterns, glossaries, dictionaries) and how they may be produced.
Rieks believes Rieks believe that only a small group of people will probably be involved with the concepts/mental model work, but that the use of the deliverables may be(come) pervasive. It requires will require close attention to the consistency across concepts.
Rieks shared some examples from the area of SSI guardianship.
He said that feedback from early eSSIF-Lab funded entities is includes remarks that the early work does not yet have enough about governance.
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Overlap between eSSIF-Lab Concepts and Terminology and ToIP Concepts and Terminology WG
Rieks see sees the two efforts are very closely aligned. Since eSSIF-Lab is a twothree-year project (two years remaining), he is thinking it may need a landing place, and the ToIP CTWG might be a good home.
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Ultimately, Rieks would like to see one kind of governance over as few repositories as possible for incorporating the corpus of terminologies for generating what whatever we need out of it.
Daniel Hardman suggested that If we want to use a professional terminology management product, or if you want to know what features they offer, a good one to study is TRADOS Studio / Multiterm / Termbase.
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