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Overlap with the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge #1

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stienheremans opened this issue Oct 3, 2024 · 2 comments
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Overlap with the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge #1

stienheremans opened this issue Oct 3, 2024 · 2 comments

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@stienheremans
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Dear developers,
I really like the initiative of creating a glossary for EO.
But this may overlap with the Body of Knowledge created by EO4GEO.
You may find it here: http://www.eo4geo.eu/bok/
Maybe you can find a way to integrate both...

Best regards,
Stien

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do-me commented Oct 14, 2024

Thanks for your hint Stien, we're currently discussing internally and will then come back to you.

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do-me commented Nov 22, 2024

Hi Stien,
many thanks for your comment! We looked into the living textbook. It's a great resource for understanding complex concepts and navigating the geo/EO world in an educational textbook style. Also, we particularly like the visual graph explorer and might take some inspiration from your implementation.

As you said, yes, there is some overlay between EO4GEO and our glossary. However, we also found some important differences:

  • Purpose (EO4GEO): designed to bring together industry & (university) candidates and match skills; our glossary strives to be independent and multi-purpose
  • Sources: EO4GEO uses scientific sources, where we mostly rely on definitions from international organizations
  • Concepts vs. terms: you focus more on broader concepts & meta concepts, where we focus on creating unambiguous definitions of terms that can serve for building such concepts in a modular and consistent way
  • Definitions: you use quite elaborate, exhaustive concept explanations in a textbook style, where we strive for concise, precise and unambiguous definitions of base terms, our goal is to limit the definition to a clause which could be used to replace the defined term in a sentence.

These are the reasons why we think both projects have their own target groups and raison d'être. However, efforts like yours could very much benefit from online thesauri like the KCEO glossary by building on and linking to the base terms defined there.

As the EO4GEO project expired in 2022, please let us know if there are still efforts to develop the results further and if you see any possibility to collaborate with our thesaurus in the way indicated above.

Many greetings
Dominik, Meriam, Peter

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