Project history   Terminology in any discipline shifts and evolves over time to reflect the practices of a given community. In a domain such as new media art, however, where practice is closely tied to emerging technologies, we see accelerated vocabulary developments as terms are repurpose...

Day 2, Group 5 Corina MacDonald, Université McGill   DOCAM’s Terminology Committee is mandated to develop vocabulary management tools for DOCAM’s researchers and the broader professional community. These tools include a bilingual glossary, a thesaurus, and an ontology, and ...

Day 2, Group 3 Corina Macdonald, DOCAM Terminology Committee, Montréal DOCAM’s Terminology Committee works to develop vocabulary management tools for DOCAM researchers and the professional community. To date, these tools have taken the form of a glossary and thesaurus, which focus ...

February 11, 2008 James Turner, EBSI, Université de Montréal James Turner © DOCAM 2008 seminaire2008_turner.xml

The table below outlines the various symbols used in the Glossaurus interface.   Symbol Designation Explanation → Use Term preferred by the Glossaurus ← Used for Term rejected by the Glossaurus ↑ Broader term Term placed further ...

Day 1, Group 1 James Turner, Université de Montréal : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) James Turner reports on the Terminology Committee’s updates, and the development of various tools, including the thesaurus and ontological model for media art...

Day 1, Group 3 Sandra Fauconnier, V2, Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam How does one register, record, store and archive information related to the preservation of media art? Which principles, systems and tools in the field of information architecture can enhance the easy storag...

Day 1, Group 1 James Turner, Université de Montréal Terminology Committee presentation sommet2005_6.xml

  The DOCAM Glossaurus is a bilingual tool that acts as both a glossary and a thesaurus: terms associated with the principal media arts concepts used by DOCAM, together with their definitions, are structured in a tree diagram.   More than a simple informational structure, it also presents a ...

Jour 1, Session 1 William Straw, McGill University Technological Timeline Committee presentation. sommet2005_7.xml