Glossary
What a glossary is should be clear: an alphabetically arranged list of words, terms, or technical terms that are used in a particular context or subject area. The mere listing shows collectiveness and helps as a table of contents, but the terms in the glossary only become a useful reference tool with definitions and explanations.
While a glossary in printed books is helpful to make the content clearer and more referenceable, a glossary on the Internet does not require scrolling. Links make it easy to go from the alphabetical list of terms to pages where each term is explained in more detail.
The glossary on our blog and website aims to be useful in two ways: as an overview of technical terms related to data management as well as a reference for the meaning of lesser-known technical terms. Gradually, the glossary will be expanded with the goal of providing key information technology terms and understandable definitions.
Why a glossary is also a gloss
At B:Tech it's human, you know our motto: by humans for humans. That's why we're fulfilling the rather human need for order, satisfying widespread hunger for knowledge and taking a look at the beginnings of the glossary.
An elementary tool for human language is the tongue, which brings us to the origin of the word glossary. In fact, it ultimately goes back to the Greek word /glṓssa/ (/γλῶσσα/), which not only means tongue, but can also mean language, peculiar way of expression or word in need of explanation. So the connection with the alphabetical glossary in today's sense is very close.
At the same time, this is also the connection to the gloss, which is more than a witty remark (at least, that is how the word is used today). A gloss in the original sense is a completely serious statement or factual comment. Here's where it comes full circle: a glossary makes technical terms and their explanations easy to find, sorts them out, and arranges them. It is obvious that word explanations must be comprehensible and by no means exclude a pinch of humor. Storytelling has also arrived in the glossary, right?
The B3blog glossary
... is constantly evolving and being added to, and has recently been integrated into the Pro:Hive, the heart of our startup. So where is the glossary? The alphabetical overview of the most important terms can be found at https://prohive.balcik.tech/de/glossar. Some basic terms we occasionally take up in the blog, where they can be explained in more detail. For often they are German-English word formations whose meaning is not self-evident.
Are you missing a term that you would like to have explained? Write to us, we will gladly take up any additional suggestions.
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