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Research Questions
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Is the term proposed specific to a field? If so, is its definition agreed upon in such field? If other definitions exist, how does
the definition proposed relate to the others used? If the term is not specific to a field, is it a term in common
usage or a neologism? How is its use justifiable in the context of the research?
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Is the term proposed used in other fields as
well? If so, is its definition consistent across such fields? If not, what are the justifications for using one
definition over another?
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Is the term used in several languages/traditions?
If so, are the definitions consistent? If not, what are the justifications for using one definition over another?
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Is the term proposed consistent with the terms
already used by the Project? If so, does such inconsistency warrant a review of the already accepted terms in light
of the new findings?
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Does the term express a concept that is already
wholly or partially expressed by other already accepted terms or more appropriate terms?
Methodology
- Develop rules and procedures for generating all of the products.
- Develop criteria for deciding upon the terms and phrases for
inclusion in the products.
- Generate the Register by means of concordance software operating
on electronic copies of IP1 and 2 and UBC Project corpus.
- Create a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for IP2
terminology.
- Ask the RAs and the experts in specific disciplines to excerpt
quotations from these sources for inclusion in the Glossary and the Dictionary.
- Generate products in the following order: Register, Glossary,
Dictionary, and Thesaurus.
- Build an online Glossary/Dictionary/Thesaurus database for all
researchers to view, provide feedback, provide suggestions, comments, criticisms, etc.
- Use feedback that comes in to revise the Glossary, Dictionary,
and Thesaurus.
- Investigate and experiment with new computational methods of
conceptual mapping. (e.g., topic maps)
Outcomes
To see the Terminology Cross-domain’s Research Design Statement,
please click here.
Documents
Public documents for the Terminology Cross-domain are located here
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