Start with the reader
Use everyday English and expand abbreviations without assuming a technical background.
How LOGOTHECA is made
Editorial methodology
A practical process for selecting, defining, reviewing and publishing technology and startup language in plain English.
Editorial principles
Clarity, context and traceability.
LOGOTHECA is a working reference rather than an exhaustive or standards-certified dictionary. Each entry aims to help a reader recognise a term and understand how it is used.
Explain the work
Define what the term means in practice and place it inside a useful category.
Keep entities distinct
Separate general concepts from named companies, models and products.
Anatomy of an entry
What the source records.
The editorial source holds consistent fields so definitions can be checked and published as individual, crawlable pages.
- Term and expansion
- The word, acronym or phrase, with its full form where relevant.
- Category
- One of 27 practical areas spanning technology, delivery, product, business and startups.
- Plain-English definition
- A concise explanation focused on recognition and practical meaning.
- Status
- A maturity signal showing how established the language is.
- Entry type and owner
- Fields that distinguish concepts from named products or organisations.
- Source and review
- Official or editorial URLs and a last-reviewed field are captured where available.
Maturity model
A signal, not a quality score.
Status labels help readers distinguish long-lived foundations from common modern practice and fast-moving AI-era language.
Core, long-standing building blocks nearly every developer uses daily.
Mature and widely adopted across the industry.
Recently coined or surged into use alongside generative AI.
Review and publication
From editorial source to public page.
The same structured source drives the online glossary, category pages and XML sitemap, reducing drift between the reference and its indexable pages.
- 1
Select and classify
Terms are grouped by subject, marked by maturity and classified as a concept or named entity.
- 2
Define and contextualise
Each entry receives a plain-English definition. Selected terms also gain a field note covering origin, use, importance and an example.
- 3
Record references
Official and editorial sources are retained where available, together with review metadata.
- 4
Generate and validate
Public pages, canonical URLs, structured data, internal links and the sitemap are generated and checked together. Records not intended for public publication are excluded before this step.
Language changes
The web glossary is the living layer.
The published book is a stable edition. Online, the Then → Now index distinguishes renamed, evolved, cyclical and genuinely new ideas, while field notes add deeper context to selected entries.