Shareable glossaries status
We kicked off the shareable glossary project in mid-2020, and by January 2022 we have:
- Early pilot implementations of core technology, with more work needed.
- An experienced team working on multiple aspects of the project.
| Goal | Status at January 2022 |
|---|---|
| Define problem | Within this website, we have defined the problem and suggested solutions. |
| Establish a development community. | Assembled a core team, meeting fortnightly. Team has decades of collective experience from: * Data modeling in ISO and Open Geospatial Standards organizations. * Documentation communities. * Google tech writers. * Glossary and open source software projects. * Requirements management community. |
| Establish a shareable glossary standard schema. | Early version developed. Still to be published, tested and refined. Target pilot by 1st half 2022. |
| Establish a sentence structure for glossary definitions. | Piloted using ISO's definition conventions. Expect we will need to extend this guidance to address conventions used in other glossaries. Target 2022. |
| Build glossary software to publish the shareable glossary format. | Open source implementation developed, but needs ruggedizing for mass market, and needs to integrate the shareable glossary format. Target pilot by 2022. |
| Pilot implementations | Have established a pilot cross-project glossary within the geospatial domain, with contributors from: * The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), responsible for spatial standards. * ISO TC211, responsible for ISO's geospatial glossary. * The Open Geospatial Foundation, and multiple open source geospatial projects. Target refinements in 2022/23. |
| Publish prominent glossaries as a web service. | Have established relationships with some prominent glossary holders. Waiting on software to publish the shareable glossary standard. Target 2022. |
| Scale, by making it super-easy for projects to auto-generate a glossary file for their websites from authoritative glossaries. | Not started. Target 2022/23. |
| Incrementally add tooling to realize high value use cases. | Not started, but there are some quick-win tools which will be easy to implement for a software developer. Target 2022-24. |
| Introduce governance best practices. | Understood, but barely started. Target 2022/23. |
| Provide user, and implementation guides. | Barely started. Depends on implementation to stabilize. Target 2022/23. |
Prior status reports:
Last modified 2022-05-15 (1fd8c89)