CoHousing A pattern of residential development, first popularized in northern Europe, that combines elements of privacy and community. See: The Commons on the ...
Commons Common 1. Belonging equally to, or shared by, two or more or by all; 2. Belonging to or related to the community at large. From: Webster #8217;s New World ...
ContentManagementSystem AKA "CMS" A class of ServerSoftware that facilitates collaborative writing, editing and publishing of (on line) articles. CMS products are ...
GlossaryOfTerms To define a new term, go to here. This is a glossary of terms used in Skyloom.Wiki. See also: PatternList. #AnAnchor Create New Definition ...
InformationArchitecture Information Architecture involves the successful design, organization, and navigation of information so that it is easy for a user to be able ...
KnowledgeManagement "Knowledge Management is the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge." 1 #FootNotes Footnote ...
OpenSourceSoftware Software whose source code is available to everyone. This is distinct from Free software. Free software is often OpenSourceSoftware but not always ...
PatternFormat A central aspect of PatternLanguages that make them work is having a standard format for articulating the patterns that make up a PatternLanguage. The ...
RunTogetherCapitalizedWordPhrase RunTogetherCapitalizedWordPhrase is simply an illustrative example of a TWiki.WikiWord. Sometimes it's also called "CamelCase" (as ...
SmartGrowth "Land use development practices that create more resource efficient and Livable communities, with more Accessible land use patterns. An alternative to ...
SocialSoftware "Tools that depend more on social convention than on software features to facilitate interaction and collaboration." Quote from Adina Levin on Socialtext ...
TWikiApplication An integrated set of topics, TWiki.TWikiForms, templates, html forms, and searches that together implement a particular functionality. For examples ...
UseCase Use cases presents a "story" of how a particular "actor" interacts successfully with the particular system. Use cases are used to define specifically what ...
WebLog "WebLogs," or as they are more commonly called, "blogs" are kind of on line journals in which people post their thoughts and commentary. They've become very ...
WebWare Software that runs on the web, versus on your desktop. It runs on a web site server and you access it (generally) through a browser. Examples include: ...
WikiConversation A conversation occurring within a wiki and, reflecting the underlying design of the wikis, has certain advantages as well as disadvantages in comparison ...
WikiWeb A WikiWeb refers to one of the webs within a WikiWebSite running the TWiki software. Each WikiWeb supports a distinct project or community. Visit the TWiki ...
WikiWebSite Wiki is Hawaian for "quick." WikiWebSites are WebWare that allow quick collaboration on the web enabling users to edit and add web pages on the fly, ...