Re: Recommend a tool for creating clear and consistent terminology?

Subject: Re: Recommend a tool for creating clear and consistent terminology?
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Frank <frank -at- research -dot- canon -dot- com -dot- au>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:21:24 -0500

How about a wiki? You might find it difficult to publish to PDF or
Word from it (without proper research and planning) but it pretty much
gives your colleague everything they're looking for.

On Dec 10, 2007 10:44 PM, Frank <frank -at- research -dot- canon -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> A colleague wants to create a dictionary, glossary, terms, acronyms,
> etc., list so that his group has consistent and clear terminology for
> their project. He was wondering about some form of XML that could be
> published in different ways.
>
> Some important features for them are:
> * Version controlled
> * Multi-user - must allow different users to make changes without
> conflict (merge-able). So anything text based would work.
> * Easy to add pictures, diagrams, etc., of any format (Visio, jpeg, etc.)
> * Easy to add bibliographic information (back to the source whether it
> be URL, academic journal, etc.)
> * Hyperlinking either automatically or by adding some form of "See Also:"
> * Publishable as interactive (HTML or HTML Help or ...) as well as
> traditional (PDF or Word or ...)

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