Re: WAI glossary start

Sounds good Janina! I hope you are well

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 8:16 PM Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:

> Hi, Katie:
>
> I think the proposal is to come up with a plan to adopt those
> definitions we can use, and toss the rest.
>
> We will, of course, also need to come up with procedures to add terms to
> a joint glossary, and we'll need some process of quality control for
> those. So, ongoing maintenance will need to be part of any useful
> general glossary project.
>
> All the above is over and beyond any tech we adopt to store our
> definitions, date them, sign off on them, and use them in our documents,
> I suppose via id href.
>
> Best,
>
> Janina
>
> Katie Haritos-Shea writes:
> > Michael,
> >
> > This is great news. Long ago U did such a thing, but it is obnoxiously
> > outdated
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 10:13 AM Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I have an action in WAI-CC to get a start on a WAI-wide Glossary. I've
> > > compiled glossaries from all the WAI documents I knew about and sorted
> them
> > > to allow comparison of terms, with indication of each term's source.
> The
> > > result is, for now, at:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDW5ja90OVuCSbirmOLfKcnHdgEKOUvqFy5icPwGsdY/edit?usp=sharing
> > >
> > > There is additional information and suggested next steps at the top of
> the
> > > document. I think this is ready for review at an upcoming WAI-CC
> meeting.
> > >
> > > As far as a tool in which to host the glossary, I don't yet have a
> > > proposal. The respec data-export feature and the webref database looked
> > > like a central W3C glossary emerging, but the documentation is clear
> it's
> > > only for "browser specs". But I'm sure we'll be able to sort that side
> > > without too much difficulty.
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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>
> Janina Sajka
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>
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