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Working with term(inologie)s comprises both the definition of terms, underlying concepts, and their interrelationships, as well as the use of such terms in documents, such as whitepapers, specifications and standards. The CTWG aims to facilitate different groups within ToIP to do both of these things, aiming to make life easier for authors and readers/audiences alike. The CTWG realizes that different (groups of) people typically have their own terminology (vocabulary, jargon, etc.) that they want to keep using as they author documents, and therefor makes it an objective to facilitate that. However, members of other groups are likely to understand such terms in a different way (i.e.: their own way). Therefor, CTWG provides means to document the actual meaning of words so that different kinds of audiences may understand what is written. 

CTWG does NOT provide the actual content of terminologies is shown in the figure below:(meanings, documents). Its focus is on the process (and supporting tools) for allowing others to author and understand texts as they are intended. Participants of CTWG may however provide such content as part of another ToIP group.

Where the various stages are as follows:

INGEST

is a stage that contains contents of various kinds that authors can produce even if they have have limited or no technical working knowledge, such as your average business person, lawyer, etc. The kinds of contents that authors may submit would be limited to a set of predefined (markdown) document templates, with or without a header construct (as e.g. in Docusaurus). Any submission of a certain kind (template) will be processed according to the mechanisms specified for that template, unless the input cannot be processed (invalid input). The output of such processing typically is content that is added to the CURATE state, but other outputs could be created if that is beneficial.

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