added the tale of the plucked chicken

Signed-off-by: Rieks <[email protected]>

docs/overview/10-tev2-purpose.md

@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ In practice, this means that [TEv2](@) provides tools and mechanisms that:
 
 These contributions are what so-called [curators](@) of the [scope](@) seek to deliver. They are the ones that make sure that there is a [location](scopedir@) where people can contribute to the development of the [terminology](@) of a [scope](@), and tools are installed and operational that enable [authors](@) to use them as they publish their documents. [Curators](@) have their own [manual](/docs/manuals/curator).
 
-The [eSSIF-Lab website](/docs/essifLab) already shows the first ideas of what that might look like (popups on [terms](@) showing their [definition](@)).
+This website shows what that might look like (popups on [terms](@) showing their [definition](@)).

docs/overview/50-tev2-background.md

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+---
+id: tev2-background
+sidebar_label: Backgrounds
+date: 20220303
+---
+
+import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl'
+
+# Backgrounds
+
+[Many cultures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel#Comparable_myths) have stories, similar to that of the [Tower of Babel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel), that observe that the big feats, such as building a "tower, whose top may reach unto heaven", cannot be achieved unless there is linguistic unity. While this is generally recognized (the [EU parliament building](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/e3de7793-c11c-4246-81aa-401be9b09384/d5ttx0w-7bcf343b-2114-46cd-8c30-d722a9725ee9.jpg/v1/fill/w_1054,h_758,q_70,strp/european_union_parliament_02__tower_of_babel__by_nixseraph_d5ttx0w-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3siaGVpZ2h0IjoiPD0xNTk2IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvZTNkZTc3OTMtYzExYy00MjQ2LTgxYWEtNDAxYmU5YjA5Mzg0XC9kNXR0eDB3LTdiY2YzNDNiLTIxMTQtNDZjZC04YzMwLWQ3MjJhOTcyNWVlOS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MjIxNyJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.db-z1OueDUGbAWMhnIbxcDioaFh1zJVlBnUTNAd5y5Y) in Strasbourg [resembles](https://jdreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tower-painting-parliament-e14176743284401.jpg.webp) the Tower of Babel as [depicted by the painter Bruegel](https://mattbell.org/wp-content/uploads/Tower-of-Babel-Peter-Breughel.jpg)), one can also observe that the part of the people that care about achieving a workable 'linguistic unity' lack easy-to-use means and tools.
+
+The traditional tool for fostering common understanding is using [glossaries](@) or [dictionaries](@), such as the [Oxford English Dictionary (OED)](https://www.lexico.com/definition/glossary), the [Sovrin Glossary](https://sovrin.org/library/glossary/) and the [NIST Glossary](https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary). Other initiatives produce documents with explanations, e.g. the [terminology for talking about privacy by data minimization](https://dud.inf.tu-dresden.de/literatur/Anon_Terminology_v0.34.pdf) by Pfitzmann and Hansen (2010), or the [EBSI Terminology](https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/EBP/EBSI+Terminology) (login required).
+
+Traditional tools usually come with drawbacks that reduce their practical usefulness in this electronic era. [Dictionaries](@) leave their user to decide which of the various meanings that a term may have was intended. [Glossaries](@) typically provide a single meaning for a term, but lack a specification of the scope/context in which it is applied or where it is authoritative. And documents rarely explain the ideas (concepts) behind terms they use.
+
+The eSSIF-Lab terminology effort is an attempt to improve on this, by
+- creating and using tools that help authors and readers to understand the texts the create/read;
+- creating and maintaining a [Terminology Corpus](corpus@) that documents such understanding;
+- automatically regenerate artifacts such as [glossaries](@) or [dictionaries](@)) as the [corpus](@) is being updated.

docs/terms/definition.md

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 Note that the actual word or phrase you choose as the [term](@) name for a [concept](@) is much less important than the criteria you define. If in a particular context another name would be more suitable, you can define another [term](@) for that other context (scope) that still refers to the concept you created the definition for.
 
 The [Terminology Corpus](@) provides templates that help you do that, e.g. for [defining](@) [concepts](@) and for [defining](@) [terms](@). The report [On Terminology, and the Resolution of Related Issues](http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:964a90da-da81-4d38-9f45-84f3f5fa96b3) provides further practical guidance for establishing and maintaining unambiguous and relevant terminology.
+
+The difficulty of creating good definitions is widely recognized, and illustrated by an anecdote involving the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Diogenes. According to the [tale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes#:~:text=According%20to%20Diogenes%20La%C3%ABrtius%2C%20when,flat%20nails%22%20to%20the%20definition.), Plato defined humans as "featherless bipeds." Diogenes, in a move to demonstrate the inadequacy of this definition, is said to have plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, declaring, "Behold! I've brought you a man." As a response to this critique, the story goes, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition.