I'd like to introduce the community to the Taxonomy of IT Glossaries (a.k.a. the Glossary Taxonomy or the Inventory of IT Glossaries), which represents an inventory of the the many individual discipline or domain specific glossaries used by IT professionals, regardless of the industry in which they practice IT.
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT) has taken its master IT Glossary, which is already the largest and most rapidly growing industry glossary in the world, and has broken it down into approximately 1,000 individual domain related glossaries, which continues to grow.
Examples include but are not limited to:
Asset Management Glossary
Change Management Glossary
Configuration Management Glossary
Incident Management Glossary
Project Management Glossary
Service Management Glossary
And much, much more...
Features include:
lexicographical and semantic consistency of terms and definitions across all IT Disciplines to help ensure that terms are entered, defined, represented and used in a consistent manner,
linkage of each specific domain or discipline glossary to its specific IT Discipline,
linkage of each glossary to the master IT Glossary, and
linkage of each term/entry to its domain glossary and to the master glossary.
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