How the BIM Dictionary works
The BIM Dictionary is curated, not crowdsourced. Its working rule is deliberate:
An agent proposes, a human curates, and nothing is ever auto-merged.
Proposed
Candidate terms are drafted into a review backlog by the dictionary's own agent or by partner applications.
Reviewed
A nominated curator reviews each candidate and decides whether to admit it.
Published
Only that human review makes a candidate a canonical term, and every admission is recorded with where it came from.
What stays fixed
- Mint once, never renameA term's identifier is permanent. Relabelling changes the label, not the identity.
- Identity is neutralLanguage and region are ways of presenting a term, not part of what it is. Register is a property of a term, never part of its identifier.
- One source of truthOther tools take a versioned snapshot. The dictionary is never a live dependency.
Want to suggest a term or a correction?
This is not an open wiki: suggestions reach the dictionary through its curators. Get in touch and we will route yours into the review backlog.
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