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For THREDDS community, I would suggest also to try to confront -and if possible to map- such glossary with other lexicons utilised by other Information Communities that THREDDS should work with (i.e. Digital Library, GIS, etc.). It may seem a pointless task, but it turns out to be valuable when THREDDS people will have to explain DODS dataset to GIS or Digital Library Communities members.
Stefano Nativi