Curator (of a Scope)

A Curator is a person responsible for curating, managing, and maintaining terminologies, to ensure shared understanding among a community working together on a particular set of objectives. They carefully select, organize, and present the terminology, ensuring that the definitions are clear, precise, and reflect the community's agreed-upon understanding of the concepts (and other semantic units) they use.

Examples

• The curator of a software development team ensures that for a particular software product (the scope of the team), all technical and non-technical terms and their definitions are consistently used, promoting coherence and reducing ambiguity during collaboration. Different products (scope's may have different (internally coherent) terminologies. If the software development team works on different products, they may need different terminologies to be curated, and possibly ensure that these terminologies get harmonized. Here, too, the curator plays a crucial role.
• The curator of a project team ensures that all technical and non-technical terms and their definitions that are relevant within the scope of that project are coherent, and consistently used within (written) project deliverables. This not only promotes coherence and reduces ambiguity during collaboration, but it also makes it easier for readers to understand the content of the project deliverables. It also facilities inter-project communications and knowledge exchange.

Notes

Curators play a vital role in the success of a terminology management initiative. By curating the terminology with precision and ensuring shared understanding among community members, they contribute to effective communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing within the community.