akaak / government-glossary

A GovSpeak to English translator a.k.a. glossary of common government IT and procurement terms, abbreviations and acronyms (CGITPTAA)

Government Glossary

A GovSpeak to English translator a.k.a. glossary of common government IT and procurement terms, abbreviations and acronyms (CGITPTAA).

Viewing the glossary

Do it live!

You can also get programatic access to the terms via terms.json.

Proposing changes and contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Goals

The goal of the government glossary is to curate an open source list of common government IT (and also to an extent procurment) terms, abbreviations, and acronyms to demystify govspeak jargon.

License

The Government Glossary is licensed under CC0.

Basic structure

Terms are stored in the _data/terms.yml as YAML, which is essentially each line containing a term and it's definition, with a single colon separating the two. A term might look like this:

GovSpeak: A language of acronyms spoken primarily in the Washington DC province of the United States

Beyond that, the terms are rendered human readable via index.html and machine readable via terms.json.

Running locally

1. script/bootstrap
2. script/server
3. Open localhost:4000 in your browser