[iaoa-education] IAOA Terminology Project - Update

[Francesca Quattri <quattri.francesca@xxxxxxxxx>]

G'day,

My thoughts to Todd's email:

1. The discussion about the Committee's chairperson is important yet not helpful for the status quo.

The priority as I see it is to get things started.
We are, for now I am, in good hands.
We only need to make sure the work is equally distributed among participants (or otherwise we should re-scope the dimension of the project). The fact that we can get some good guidelines from both of you in terms of deadlines and internal communication is I think for everybody clear.

2. Stick to the original goals of the project and yet make the work a good appetizer. In one email previous to your last, I cited Todd by asking the question: "who are the potential end users of this terminology list?"

We can provide a set of terms with different interpretations, but (a) we might not be able to reach an agreement over them (if we ever want to achieve one) and (b) we are doing a classification researchers already do or are able to do by themselves.

Where is the added value of our work? Thoughts: a list of the most controversial terms and vice versa a list of the terms which seem to have already reached general tacit agreement given their extensive use. We can tackle this and look for their robustness.

A list of terms which have been discarded for a way or another and/or one of terms which have rarely or never been contemplated. Hypothetically, we could run internal surveys and ask users which general terms they expect to deal with in an ontology and start from the ones proposed.

Final remark: we are still running this conversation on multiple channels, including the whole Education Committee.
If this topic is of interest for Someone else, please let us know.

If on the contrary you don't want to receive updates and further communication, let us know as well.

Looking forward to your reply,

F.

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