LISA glossary

[rjrosati]

I'm not sure what the intended scope of this project is, but it might be nice to also have a glossary of technical / LISA slang terms, even ones that are not acronyms. These ones come to mind;

• Red book
• prime
• global fit
• names of pipelines: GLASS, Erebor, etc
• etc

This might also be out of the project scope, but when looking up an acronym/word it could be nice to have a "see also" list of related entries. There are ways to make these automatically

[myclark]

I suspect that this would require a more complex way of storing the acronym and technical term definitions, that also allows for linking between them. From some simple googling, SQLite seems like a simple way of doing this, it is a commonly used file based database system. With this in place, and the acronyms and terms entered into it, the GUI would search this database and indeed the "see also" entries would be trivial to pull out.

However, changing to using a database system is not trivial. So such a thing would be a big step, but it would certainly provide a massive potential upgrade to the user experience, but not without the work to do it :).

[nluetzge]

A database is the ultimate goal actually. I have worked a little but with SQLite before but it would require some work. And yes I love the idea of also making it a glossary.