Glossary of Terms (Deliverable E)

Leader: Jeanne-Marie Jobse, SURFnet

The Glossary of Terms was developed by TF-PR in 2005/2006 and is available to view on the TF-PR Wiki (log-in required).

TF-PR members have also added any terms missing to Wikipedia or in some cases to Wiktionary.

Listed below are some other useful glossaries to refer to:

Existing Glossaries Research Networking

Glossaries from TERENA Task Forces

Glossaries of terms are often a deliverable of TERENA Task Forces. These tend to be dedicated to the current and specialised subjects of the Task Forces and may be of more use and interest to TF-PR members than more general glossaries.

TF-AACE - Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure terminology
TF-Netcast Terms of Reference - contains a short glossary of the most used terms
TF-Netcast - resources for content production
TF-Netcast - glossary of terms
TF-STREAM - lists of glossaries and dictionaries for videoconferencing, streaming and real time multimedia
TF-Mobility - glossary of technical terms for mobile/roaming/authentication/authorisation plus glossary of non-technical terms used by the group

Glossaries on the Web

What Is.com - definitions for thousands of IT-related words
FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
Techweb.com - lists more than 20,000 IT terms
Yourdictionary.com
- free Enlish dictionary
webopedia - an online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology
The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) - the Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases (like the FOLDOC dictionary, etc.)