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FYI France: an Info Management glossary, for French
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Mon Apr 17 20:22:55 2006
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FYI France: an interactive Info Management glossary, for French
Among the most useful online guides emerging, now, are various
lists and encyclopedias and dictionaries which tie the
terminology together. How much more useful, then, if such a
reference can cross multilingual boundaries, and even become
interactive so that it gets & stays up-to-date...
A group of students at Lille, in "GIDE, gestion de l'information
et du document en entreprise", just has announced their,
GIPRO
glossaire de gestion de l'information pour les professionels
http://2gipro.free.fr
-- where the following very useful information, and much more,
may be found: [tr. JK]
* Bruit -- "in information retrieval, a parasitical
document or information which does not correspond to the
result expected by the user" -- ["noise"]
* Cycle de vie de l'ouvrage -- "steps and deliverables
required for the achievement of the task -- cf. 'cycle de
vie du projet', which is the linkage over time of project
steps and evaluations, between the emergence of the need
and the delivery of the product."
* Data mining -- "'intelligent' analysis of scattered
data contained in the 'data warehouse', to transform it
into decision-making information"
* Data mart (magasin de données) -- "sub-classification of
data in the data warehouse useful for a specific job or activity"
* Data warehouse (entrepôt de données) -- "a cross -
enterprise information system, centralizing data issued by
different applications, for use in strategic decision-making"
-- and so on...
Are such terms in use, actually, and are they in use in France?
Well, yes, they are... "Data mining" is what Sergey Brin and
Larry Page were doing at Stanford, in their graduate program,
when they came up with the idea for their Google. Brin swears
he's still working on his thesis --
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1999-66
So, yes, a _lot_ of people in France and elsewhere are worrying
now over terms such as "Data warehouse" and "Data mart" and "Data
mining": and if you would like to know the exact terms being
used, by such worriers in France, this new GIPRO resource comes
in very handy -- its "entrepôt de données", in which you'll find
your "magasin de données"...
The interesting list goes on:
* GPL (de l'anglais, "GNU General Public License") --
"License through which software may be distributed, with
its source code, and freely adapted and modified. The
license is said to be 'tainted' in that any other
software using all or part of a GPL program automatically
falls under the GPL terms" -- [!"contaminante"?...]
* Information -- "an observation" [notorious French /
English 'fausse amie', the English term being more
general -- the French refer to "an information" to mean,
specifically, "an observed fact"]
* Logiciel (en anglais "software")...
* Métadonnées -- ["metadata"]
* Note de cadrage -- "the deliverable of the feasability
study which formalizes the intention of a project, it
must be evaluated by the Comité de Pilotage..."
* Ontologie...
* Opérateurs booléens...
* Page perso...
* Page Web dynamique...
* Pull...
* Push...
* Retour d'expérience -- "capitalization phase...
archiving the work experience '(savoir-faire)' derived
from the project so as to ameliorate the efficacity of
conduct on future projects..." -- ["feedback"?]
* Text mining (fouille de données)...
* Travail collaboratif...
* Troncature...["truncation", so now you won't try "tr_u_"]
* Unix (de l'anglais, "Uniplexed Information and Computer
Service")...
* Veille informationnelle... [from the French poetic, as
in, "blessed was it in that dawn"]
* Wiki...
Perhaps even more interesting than the current list on GIPRO is
what it may become, a multilingual & international & even
feedback-enriched technical glossary:
-- the well-designed site comes complete with a "bibliographie"
and a "webographie" (tell me that latter term's not better than
"links", which sounds like sausage);
-- and, for every term searched, the following shows up --
* Principales cararactéristiques de la conduite d'un
projet -- a short essay on / overview of a "project",
providing context to the specific search -- keeps a user
from becoming "lost";
* Le blog -- a short essay on / overview of a "blog",
emergent chief tool nowadays of this sort of research,
and perhaps of any sort of research;
* La démarche de la recherche documentaire -- short essay
on / overview of research methods;
-- and, most interesting of all, at the bottom of each entry,
* Répondre à cet article -- a link to an easily-used and
moderated discussion forum, for feedback, to improve both
the current article and the site in general...
For those of us who have used Wikipedia, or dealt with e-journals
and e-publishing and e-conferences, or engaged in The Fray on The
WELL and in other online communities -- on gameboards, in
political campaigns, chatgroups, Usenet (remember that?),
institutional and trans-national research email systems -- the
above is the model increasingly being used in fundamental
research, too, and in academic publishing, and in corporate
decision-making, and in political action, worldwide... think of
the Landmines treaty, and of all those "PeoplePower" flipfones,
in Manila...
The most appropriate term I've found so far, for the general
phenomenon, is one coined recently by Mitchell Kapor:
*Massively Distributed Collaboration* : see,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_distributed_collaboration
-- that's lots of people in lots of places, working together
imaginatively & creatively, & avoiding & escaping traditional
regulation as they do so -- it's a Brave New research World.
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales calls it "community": it's not about the
software or the systems it's the people, he says, who cares about
the packaging.
--oOo--
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