[Lexicon] Best practices in writing a glossary entry

[Cameron Shorter]

Byron, you were asking about best practices for writing terms in a 
glossary for the GeoNetwork project.

Reese has provided excellent advice in this regards, referencing ISO 
standards (as per conversations in the OSGeo Lexicon email list [1].

I'm hoping to see this captured into a template in TheGoodDocsProject 
[2] at some point, probably piggy-backing off what the OSGeo Lexicon 
community are developing. But in the meantime, the ISO directives Reese 
points below to will be a great starting point.

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/lexicon

[2] https://thegooddocsproject.dev/


On 5/10/19 10:10 am, Reese W. Plews wrote:
> for our ISO work, we use the ISO Directives, Part 2, Clause 16
> and 17. that provides the specific rules for the standards developers
> to follow. one of the main ideas for the terminology entry is that the
> actual definition could be replaced for each term instance the text of
> the standard and it will make sense.
>
> the iso directives are available here as html, and other locations as PDF
> https://www.iso.org/sites/directives/current/part2/index.xhtml
>
> for the work in TC211 we cannot deviate from those rules. when i make
> comments to the standards developers on the terminology, in the early
> stages of the work, a number of comments can be about formatting and
> grammar. this is especially true for standards developed else where
> that would then "come into the ISO process"

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