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Sometime when I am old(er) and (somehow?) have more time, I'd like to jot down a "Rosetta Stone" of which buzzwords map to the same concepts. So often we change our vocabulary every decade without changing what we're really talking about.

Things started out in a scholarly vein, but the rush of commerce hasn't allowed much time to think where we're going. — James Thornton, Considerations in computer design (1963)



Like a Linked Data thesaurus with typed, reified edges between nodes/concepts/class_instances?

Here's the WordNet RDF Linked Data for "jargon"; like the "Jargon File": http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/lemma/jargon

A Semantic MediaWiki Thesaurus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki :

> Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki. Data that has been encoded can be used in semantic searches, used for aggregation of pages, displayed in formats like maps, calendars and graphs, and exported to the outside world via formats like RDF and CSV.

Google Books NGram viewer has "word phrase" term occurrence data by year, from books: https://books.google.com/ngrams




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