Re: Is standarisation of Web terminology in scope for QA?

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Al Gilman wrote:

> At 10:35 AM 2001-10-22 , Alex Rousskov wrote:
> >
> >> Would addressing this issue be within the scope of the QA activity?
> >
> >Not in my opinion. QA can encourage WGs to develop and use terminology
> >documents, but it should be WGs responsibility to define the terms
> >they use. Besides, "Web terminology" is too broad of a scope to allow
> >for practical standardization (IMHO).
> >
> 
> A finite objective that would be a quality topic IMHO is a simple
> "best practices" output on handling Terms of Art in the W3C
> process.  This includes standards for when a Term of Art is used,
> how to review supposed Terms of Art for elimination, adjustment or
> adoption, and how to handle Terms of Art in the corpus of W3C
> publications.

Yes, I agree.

Alex.

Received on Monday, 22 October 2001 15:06:06 UTC