UIS Glossary published

The Dictionary Sub-commission's Glossary Project has now published Stage 1 of its UIS Cave and Karst Glossary, English version. This is the initial stage of what is planned to become a significant multi-lingual multi-discipline speleo glossary. And it will at last provide definitions for the bare terms in the Cavers Multi-lingual Dictionary.

In due course we will be calling for help with improvements, new terms, further languages, and further karst disciplines. You can keep in touch and/or participate in the project via its forum on the "cavedata" board.

Glossary: http://uisic.uis-speleo.org/uisglossary-en.html
Project background: http://uisic.uis-speleo.org/lexgloss.html
Forum: http://uisic.uis-speleo.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

Peter Matthews
Glossary Project Leader

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