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.)