Glossary explanation
A glossary is a list of words with enclosed explanations or translations. The Latin word glossarium refers to the object as a “book”, which explains (old) or foreign words.
Glossaries were created in Antiquity and Middle Ages by glossographers as collections of explanatory words (archaisms, dialect words, foreign words, see gloss) for the grammar study and as an aid for the explanation of texts (especially Homer’s and the Bible). Since the late Middle Ages, bilingual, Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek glossaries have been used to mediate the foreign language, and in the Latin Middle Ages they became the starting point for the creation of Latin-vernacular glossaries (Abrogans, Affatim Glossary).
As a lexicographical genre, the one-bilingual and bilingual glossaries form a precursor to the complete collection of a vocabulary, from which, as early as the eighteenth century, the basic encyclopaedia of the Vulgar and Mittellinein of Charles Du Cange as a glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis (1st edition, Paris, 1678). The glossaries of antiquity and late antiquity have often already dealt with the method of etymology which attempts to derive a word or its constituent parts from similar sounding words in order to discover not only the origin of the word, but also the essential characteristics of the thing. In addition to primary linguistic, they often also provided a high proportion of factual explanations that made them a precursor to the encyclopedias. Thus, the encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, is compiled, among other things, from late-classical glossaries.
A glossary is a list of words with linguistic explanations that reveal the vocabulary of a edited text and is usually printed in the appendix to this text. A technical or technical glossary lists the terminology of a technical language or technical subject with conceptual and factual definitions which are intended to ensure the correct use of these technical terms and their clear understanding.
AFP Advanced Function Presentation
Glossary, NewsAFP – Advanced Function Presentation Advanced function presentation (AFP) is a print data stream format used for high-volume printing.
ASF Application Support Facility
Glossary, NewsASF – Application Support Facility Application Support Facility is a software architecture designed by IBM for the creation and management of business correspondence.
BPM Business Process Management
Glossary, NewsBPM – Business Process Management Business process management (BPM) deals with the identification, design, documentation, implementation, direction and improvement of business processes.
Capture.
Glossary, NewsCapture Capture is a component within the ECM process. Capturing includes functionalities and components that deal with the creation, preparation and processing of digital and analogue information.
Case Management.
Glossary, NewsCase Management The goal of case management is to create a well-organised support service which meets the individual needs of each case and fulfils each client’s requirements.
CCM Customer Communication Management
Glossary, NewsCCM – Customer Communication Management Customer communication management (CCM) is a concept coined by market research companies in the English-speaking world to describe a type of software which allows organisations to communicate efficiently with their customers.
DataMatrix.
Glossary, NewsDataMatrix The DataMatrix code is one of the best-known 2D codes. It was developed in the USA in the late 1980s by Acuity Corp.
De-Mail.
Glossary, NewsDe-Mail De-Mail is the name of a communication system based on email but technically separate from it, designed for “secure, confidential and trackable” communication online. De-Mail is generally realised and operated by private companies known as De-Mail providers.
DMS Document Management System
Glossary, NewsDMS – Document Management System The term “document management system” (DMS) describes the database-supported management of digital documents. In other words, this means managing digitised documents – those which were originally paper-based – within an electronic system. In a broader sense, it can also describe the document management industry.
Document Formatting
Glossary, NewsDocument Formatting Document formatting describes the process of downstream preparation, or formatting, of documents during their creation in order to adapt them for the appropriate output channel.
EIM Enterprise Information Management
Glossary, NewsEIM – Enterprise Information Management Enterprise Information Management (EIM) describes “bringing together structured data, unstructured documents, and their associated commercial applications”.
ECM Enterprise Content Management
Glossary, NewsECM – Enterprise Content Management Enterprise content management (ECM) comprises the methods, technologies and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve and supply content and documents in order to support organisational processes within businesses. ECM brings together structured, weakly structured and unstructured information.
E-Postbrief.
Glossary, NewsE-Postbrief Deutsche Post’s E-Postbrief, sometimes shortened to E-Brief, is a hybrid postal service with an affiliated website for exchanging electronic messages over the internet. The goal of E-Postbrief is to offer greater authenticity, better data protection, and greater integrity than email, which is usually unencrypted and sometimes compared to a digital postcard.
Colour printing
Glossary, NewsColour printing In printing technology, colour printing describes a either printing process which uses multiple printing colours or individual printouts produced using a colour-printing process.
Colour management
Glossary, NewsColour management The goal of colour management is to ensure that a document captured using any input device can be reproduced as closely as possible on any output device. A high degree of similarity between the input and output images is known as colour fidelity. Colour management systems (CMS) are used in order to achieve […]