Re: followup to question about vocabularies and the glossary

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On 12/5/14, 7:22 AM, "Annette Greiner" <amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:

>Hi folks,
>During this morningšs call, I asked whether developing a separate
>glossary might be redundant with the task we already have to develop a
>vocabulary. I was thinking that, since a vocabulary is a list of what is
>meant by specific terms to be used in a certain context, if we were
>writing a vocabulary that would define what we were also contemplating
>putting into a glossary, the two would be redundant. Looking again at the
>charter, I see that there are two vocabularies that we are expected to
>develop, and they are both pretty specific. Since neither of them is a
>general vocabulary for describing published datasets, I would suggest
>that we stick with adding a glossary, unless people think that there is
>something to be gained by making it a vocabulary. For my own purposes, I
>think a glossary is fine.
>-Annette
>--
>Annette Greiner
>NERSC Data and Analytics Services
>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>510-495-2935
>
>

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