Terminology Committee resource list
List compiled by Corina Macdonald
GLOSSARIES AND THESAURI
Variable Media Glossary. Depocas, A., Ippolito, J., and Jones, C. (eds) (2003). Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology.
https://www.variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html
Capturing Unstable Media Glossary, V2
http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/glossary.html
UNESCO Thesaurus
http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Glossary
http://www.imappreserve.org/cat_proj/glossary.html
Dictionnaire des arts médiatiques. 1996, Groupe de recherche en arts médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://www.dictionnairegram.org/
Inside Installations Glossary
http://glossary.inside-installations.org
Bay Area Video Coalition – Glossary
http://www.bavc.org/preservation/dvd/resources/gloss.htm
Digital Curation Centre Glossary
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/glossary/
AMIA Glossary
http://www.amianet.org
Besser, Howard. Introduction to imaging : issues in constructing an image database : revised edition. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2003.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/glossary.html
[includes Glossary]
InterPARES Glossary (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems)
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip1_glossary.pdf
[archival context]
Grand dictionnaire terminologique, Office québecois de la langue française
http://www.granddictionnaire.ca/
Kodak Glossary of Film/Video Terms.
http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Education/Film_Video_Glossary/
Lexical and Classification Resources from CoOl
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/
[With links to glossaries and thesauri, this CoOl site offers information specific to magnetic media preservation as well as other areas of archival research.]
Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS), Joan M. Reitz.
http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_r.cfm
WordNet
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Glossaries
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/format/gloss.html
Recording institute of Detroit, Audio Recording Terms Glossary
http://recordingeq.com/glossary/glospt.htm
Structured Glossary from the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee of the Commission on Preservation and Access
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/lynn/
[This extensive glossary breaks terms down by document medium, format, properties, content, and condition. It also includes storage terms, specific preservation terms, methodology, and more].
Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
Tech Terms Dictionary
http://www.techterms.com/
Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms (developed by National Film and Sound Archive – Australia)
http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/preservation/audiovisual_terms/
Universal Preservation Format Glossary
http://info.wgbh.org/upf/glossary.html
[Developed in conjunction with the Universal Preservation Format, this glossary has cross-domain definitions of preservation terms and provides links to glossaries that have additional source information.]
OTHER TERMINOLOGY SOURCES / RESOURCES
Documentation and capturing methods for unstable media arts, V2
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/1_2_capturing.pdf
Description models for unstable media art. V2.
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/1_3_metadata.pdf
Class Hierarchy for cmcm_final Project, V2
http://archive.v2.nl/v2_archive/projects/capturing/cmcm/html/
CIDOC CRM – Conceptual Reference Model
http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/
Audio and Video Carriers, TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe)
www.tape-online.net/docs/audio_and_video_carriers.pdf
JISC Techwatch A-Z Technologies
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/techwatch/aztechnologies.aspx
Computer Forensics Tools Testing Website
http://www.cftt.nist.gov/
Disk Imaging Specification Comments and Responses
http://www.cftt.nist.gov/DI-SPEC-COMMENTS-AND-RESPONSES-5.doc
Sustainability of Digital Formats, Library of Congress
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml
UK Archival Thesaurus
http://www.ukat.org.uk/
[SKOS implementation]
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Home Page
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf