-In this paper we introduce an open, scientific glossary which uses MediaWiki engine to the forensic examiner and pattern recognition scientific communities. Besides our aim to find editors from these communities who contribute to extend the glossary and make it as complete as possible, we would like to translate the terms from English to other languages, e.g. Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabian. The contribution can be started with translating the existing words at the glossary. The second part of our work when the glossary become be more completed, will consist into create the very understanding and useful glossary.
In the last few years there were more and more communication and joint research between the forensic examiners and pattern recognition scientists. These two communities can efficiently work together, if they understand the terms from both sciences. We have seen and heard on meetings, conferences, workshops, and during discussions it is a necessity to have a useful, extendable glossary, and dictionary which helps the common work.
Our aim is to create a glossary and a dictionary with the important terms of the forensic science for the forensic document examiners and pattern recognition experts in different languages. We are considering even the different expressions among countries who share the same language II. TECHNICAL BACKGROUND in order to obtain a better understanding into our fields no Nowadays a glossary or dictionary which is available only matter where we are from. Thinking and hoping this work will in printed version is not really useful. An online glossary is be a useful tool for both: the forensic and pattern recognition more useful than a printed one and it can be easily printed if it communities. is necessary. Several criteria should meet, which are feasible
The long name of the glossary is Glossary of Forensic only if the glossary is an online one.
name is GoFDER. The site is availabe on the http://projects. dfki.uni-kl.de/gofder/index.php URL. Figure 1 shows the logo of the glossary which depicts an important tool of the forensic scientist.
examiner, analyst of Payment Systems at the Central Bank of Argentina Republic. The second author Erika Griechisch is a PhD student at the University of Szeged (Institute of Informatics), her topic is online signature verification. Further authors are every colleague who would like to contribute.
1) Beginning: The authors met at First International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis (AFHA) in 2011, Beijing, China. In that opportunity it was clear the necessity to get a good understanding and a fluid contact among professionals worldwide. So, we decide to make this work, that takes a long time and dedication, and responsibility.
time in publishing terms from forensic science. The Forensic
but its own glossary [
glossary. There will be always terms which can be added, not necessary because there incompleteness of the glossary itself rather the expension of the scientist. Regarding the expansion, it is much easier to correct errors in an existing online website than a book.
glossary. We know for the translation part it is necessary to be clean and easy otherwise we can expect only few translators.
MediaWiki (MW) is a versatile package, written in PHP and originally developed for use on Wikipedia since 2002. It is very widespread, well-documented, can handle any kind of media easily (links, images, videos, etc), moreover it is opensource which makes it easier to discover and fix any kind of bugs. The MediaWiki package quite flexible and further functionalities can be easily integrated to a basic MediaWiki website.
MediaWiki uses a markup language called wikitext to use basic formatting so the users without knowledge of HTML can edit the pages easily. We added the WikiEditor extension to the GoFDER website, which allows the users to see 3 different view during the editing. The first one is the plain wikitext, the second is a preview, the third one shows the differences between the previous version of the page and the current (edited) version. Thus if someone is new in wikitext markup language, s/he can simply check the Preview before submission, see Figure 2.
glossary with dictionary, a basic MediaWiki is not sufficient.
sion of MediaWiki that helps to search, organise, tag, browse,
evaluate and share the wiki’s content [
useful and can be processed easily by humans, it is not easy to understand or evaluate for a computers. The Semantical MediaWiki helps to extend a capability of a Wiki site by adding annotations, which makes wiki a collaborative database.
added the Semantic Glossary to our website, which helps to describe terms with the Terminology page of the wiki. The reader of a page just point to a word with the mouse and if the Terminology page contains that word, it’s description will appear in a small box below the word.
tors, however its usage is very simple. After a page is marked with the <translation> tag, the extension automatically splits the text between the translation tag to translation units. The arrangment of the translation units can be approved or redefined if it is necessary. According to the default settings each translation unit is one paragraph. After the arrangement of the translation units are saved, the page can be translated via a translation tool. Figure 3 and 4 show two view of a translation page, translators can use which are more convinient for them.
Users can choose the language they intend to translate from a list. On the GoFDER website there is a predefined list on the top of all the translatable webpages which shows the languages we primarily intend to find translators (the first author of this paper is responsible mainly for Spanish translations, the second is about Hungarian). Nevertheless there is no language restrictions, contributors are welcome to translate to any language.
We encourage forensic document examiners to extend the glossary and the dictionary as well, comment the recent terms on the discussion pages, ask if something is not clear or complete. We want to keep our glossary professional, so on our wiki site it is not possible to edit or modify pages without registration. After registration and login, users can modify the pages.
to Spanish, German and Hungarian. In the same way to increase the dictionary, we plan to add new languages as well.
The translations are available for a page if it is marked for translation. Every registered user can translate sites, but only translation administrators can mark pages for translation and confirm completed translations. If a user creates a page and s/he is member of the Translation group, s/he can mark it for translation. if s/he is not member of this group, she can ask someone from the Translation group.
The second author was supported by the TA´ MOP-4.2.4B/211/1-2012-0001 project.
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Arabic • German • English • Spanish • Hungarian This is the test website of the GoFDER project (Glossary of Forensic Document Examination & Pattern Recognition). Our aim is to create a glossary and a dictionary with the important terms of the forensic science for the forensic document examiners and pattern recognition experts in different languages. We are considering even the different expressions among countries who share the same language in order to obtain a better understanding into our fields no matter where we are from. Thinking and hoping this work will be a useful tool for both: the forensic and pattern recognition community.
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