Terms are words or phrases that act as labels for formally defined concepts. "MRI" is a medical term; "Habeas corpus" is a legal term; and so on. Any time a group of experts invents, innovates or standardizes, they need a terminology as a tool for themselves, and a corresponding glossary (one of their work products) that helps them communicate about their work. Usually, the group will typically seek to use terms that have already defined in specifications, standards, dictionaries, or glossaries that already exist. However, they will also typically need to define an additional set terms specific to their group. Several TOIP working groups (WGs) and task forces (TFs) have already expressed this need.
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- Contact the CTWG on slack at #concepts-and-terminology-wg to get a terms wiki for your group. (If your group is not within TOIP, that's fine; see these instructions instead.)
- Understand how your terms wiki is structured.
- Add a new term and its definition by clicking the green "New Page" button, editing content in markdown, and clicking the green "Save Changes" button when done.
- Edit a term or its definition by browsing to its page and clicking the green "Edit" button. (Again, "Save Changes" when done).
- Learn about how to work with hyperlinks.
- Ask the CTWG on slack at #concepts-and-terminology-wg to help you setup an export of your data to a glossary.
- Understanding the template for a glossary wiki page. <== THIS PAGE TO BE DEVELOPED BY CTWG VOLUNTEERS
- How your glossary wiki works with the CTWG ToIP Term tool. <== THIS PAGE TO BE DEVELOPED BY CTWG VOLUNTEERS
- <insert additional glossary wiki documentation pages here>
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| Tag and Wiki Link | Community | Description | Month Started | Glossary Link | ||||
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| #essiflab | eSSIF-Lab | Terminology and mental models that have been developed in the EU eSSIF-Lab project. | May 2021 | eSSIF-Lab Glossary | ||||
| #toip | The ToIP community as a whole | Terms used consistently throughout all ToIP deliverables and contexts | May 2021 | ToIP Core Glossary | ||||
| #ctwg | Concepts and Terminology Working Group (CTWG) | Bootstrap terminology for CTWG tools, terms wiki design, curation, and our own documentation. | May 2021 | CTWG Glossary | ||||
| #gswg | ToIP Governance Stack Working Group | Specialized terms used in the context of ToIP governance | Nov 2021 | GSWG Glossary | #ghp | ToIP Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass | Global interoperability of health certificates and travel passes with a focus on COVID-19 | April 2021 |
| #tswg | ToIP Technology Stack Working Group | Specialized terms used in the context of ToIP technology | July 2022 | TSWG Glossary | GHP Interop Blueprint (Glossary section)||||
| #acdc | Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) Task Force | Terminology for the ACDC Specification | Sept 2021 | <coming soon>ACDC Glossary | #essiflab | eSSIF-Lab | Terminology and mental models that have been developed in the EU eSSIF-Lab project. | May 2021 | eSSIF-Lab
| #hxwg | ToIP Human Experience Working Group | Terminology specifically for human understanding of digital trust (especially market-facing terminology) | July 2022 | HXWG Glossary | ||||
| #yoma | YOMA (Youth Agency Marketplace) | Terminology for the YOMA Rules ecosystem | July 2021<coming soon>2021 | Yoma Glossary | ||||
| #ghp | ToIP Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass | Global interoperability of health certificates and travel passes with a focus on COVID-19 | April 2021 | GHP Interop Blueprint (Glossary section) | ||||
| #sovrin | Sovrin Foundation | Governance and operation of the Sovrin Foundation and Sovrin ledger | January 2017 | Sovrin Glossary | ||||
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- GitHub is the standard back-end repository system used by Linux Foundation projects (of which the ToIP Foundation is one).
- GitHub has a built-in wiki capability called using GitHub wikis that can be turned on for any GitHub repo.
- A GitHub repo—and its inherent access control capabilities—provides a standard, widely accessible open source tool for each glossary community to manage its own glossary wiki.
- A GitHub wiki is stored in Markdown documents in GitHub just like all other GitHub documentation and can be accessed and managed programmatically via the GitHub APIs.
- The CTWG is developing tooling, called the ToIP Term ToolTerminology Engine—that will be able to automatically ingest the contents of glossary wikis that follow the CTWG terms wiki guidelines into a shared terminology corpus. This is where the CTWG and the participating glossary communities can add value by mapping terms and concepts across different glossary communities in order to increase the overall communication value of the terms to everyone.
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