Contributors Manual - Overview

Contributors provide inputs that are relevant for the construction, further development and maintenance of a terminology. They participate in discussions and other ways in which a collaborative and common understanding within the community (e.g. a Work Group, Task Force, Project Team) is fostered. How such contributions are to be provided, and how the collaborative and common understanding is fostered, is up to the community leadership.

Contributors can also be tasked to check/proofread authored documents to ensure that references to terms and/or other semantic units are correct, i.e.: as intended by the author, and understandable by readers.

Finally, contributors may identify any specific needs or mechanisms that help them do the aforementioned tasks, and communicate these needs to their curators, or otherwise contribute to the further development of TEv2 so that such needs and mechanisms may be supported.

This Manual for Contributors documents how the TEv2 supports this role.

One purpose of the Terminology Engine (v2) is to provide terminological support for people that author documentation, specifications, whitepapers, articles and the like. This document provides guidance for contributors to make use of that support.