Scope Directory
Summary
A scope directory is a directory in a computer file system that contains all files that are either being curated within a particular scope, or generated to serve some purpose within that scope.
Specifically, every scope directory contains at least:
- a Scope Administration File or SAF, that specifies details about the scope itself, identifies other scopes that it will be using, and the various terminologies that are maintained within the scope;
- a so-called curatedir, i.e. some subdirectory within the scopedir where all curated texts live;
- a so-called glossarydir, i.e. some subdirectory within the scopedir where all machine readable glossaries live.
Typically, a scopedir might also contain other files, e.g. for generating e.g. a statical website, whitepapers, and other kinds of documentation.
From the perspective of a group of people that want to do something together, and that have agreed to put their files in one place, e.g. a github or gitlab repository, it may be convenient to add documentation for their terminologies in (a subdirectory of) that directory, and organize it as a scopedir, by adding a SAF, a curatedir and a glossarydir in it.
Purpose
The purpose of scopedirs is to have all artifacts related to a particular scope in a single location, so that they can be easily used by tools, and there is a basis for sharing terminological work between scopes
Criteria
A scope directory is a directory in a computer file system that contains all files that are either being curated within a particular scope, or generated to serve some purpose within that scope.