Collaborative Dictionary of Space Concepts

What is the Dictionary of Space Concepts?

The Dictionary of Space Concepts provides not only the basis for the advanced English language classes of the Multilingualism Programme; it also serves as larger online support platform for all UNIVERSEH students, with the aim of training specific space terminologies across various fields connected to the space sector. The DSC combines core space concepts and with helpful illustrations, all in an open-project format, which is freely available to everyone inside and outside UNIVERSEH.

The DSC is an ever-evolving project that can only exist with your input and contributions! We wholeheartedly invite you to register as a basic user (students) or expert user (researchers and teaching staff), where you can add new concepts and provide definitions, illustrations, translations, and links to relevant literature. Everyone can contribute to the collection of concepts and the discussion of their meanings. Thus, the DSC is being developed within the framework of a citizen science approach that allows citizens and experts to participate in the establishment and maintenance of this project.

The first language of the DSC is English. However, in the long run the concepts should be translated into the languages of the consortium members, as well (French, Polish, Swedish, German). The process of feeding and updating the DSC will be screened and monitored by expert users and project administrators in order to keep the standards of the DSC high. One of the main goals of the project is to integrate students into the DSC project!  In this sense, the DSC is not only a project for the students of UNIVERSEH, but also a project involving all the partners’ students. Within the classes focused on space terminology, students are supposed to identify concepts and definitions and to work on the content of the DSC. With respect to the challenge of illustrating concepts, cooperation with the arts and design departments inside the consortium also offer a unique possibility for interdisciplinary collaboration.