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 will seek to complement existing vocabulary resources...

...The glossary has been the focal point of much of the committee’s work to date. This has involved the collection of pertinent terms and definitions in English and French from both internal and external sources, as well as the establishment of a technological framework to support its growth and to facilitate the future development of the thesaurus and ontology. This framework will also permit interoperability strategies to be developed to link DOCAM’s terminological resources to other data collections.

Corina MacDonald is a Masters student at McGill’s School of Information Studies. Her interests include the social aspects of information behaviour in technological environments as well as the representation, use and preservation of digital objects. Her other preoccupations include digital sound and electronic music, and she works as a dj, producer and radio host. Her electronic music program, modular systems, is broadcast weekly on CKUT 90.3 FM.