"Unofficial" Notes from 3/7/03 Glossary Meeting 9-10am - W3C Technical Plenary
Tim Boland NIST

Approximately 15 people attended this meeting from various W3C groups

Requirements
-synonyms
-multilingual (translations, comments on translations, one concept can have
several translations, US english should be basis)
-searchable (with subsets)
-context
-UTF-8
-audience (editors, readers, translators)  Data model should include:
term/concept, definition, context, contributors, date, translations
(terminology, definitions), and comments).  concept should be the key
It is possible that RDF (or something similar) may be used to express
the above.   
-use cases (comparison, discovery, derivation, policymaking, speech synthesis,
crossreferencing)  Each of these use cases may be important to one or more
 audience component as mentioned
above  
-versioning
-illustrations
-authority for translations?
NOTE: definitions may be restricted/extended/replaced

Next steps:
-creation of public w3c mailing list
-Wendy will write up issues
-possible telecon
-BOF at next WWW conference