CIPedia:About
CIPedia©, as described in the CIPRNet’s Work Programme, is a Wikipedia-like online community servicefocusing on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Resilience-related issues, provided by the EU FP7 project CIPRNet.
CIPedia© is one of the components of the CIPRNet’s VCCC (Virtual Centre of Competence and expertise in CIP) web portal, to be hosted on the web server of the CIPRNet project.
It is a multinational, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral web collaboration tool for information sharing on Critical Infrastructure (CI)-related matters. It promotes communication between CIP-related stakeholders, including policy-makers, competent authorities, CI operators and owners, manufacturers, CIP-related facilities and laboratories, and the public at large. The CIPedia© service aims to establish itself as a – much needed but up to the advent of CIPedia© missing – common reference point for CIP concepts and definitions. It gathers information from various CIP-related sources and combines them in order to collect and present knowledge on the CIP knowledge domain. It is dynamic, as it allows stakeholders to update information as the domain evolves and new concepts emerge or receive different meaning.
Aim
CIPedia© aims to establish itself as a – much needed but, up to the advent of CIPedia©, missing – common reference point for CIP concepts and definitions. CIP terminology varies significantly due to contextual or sectoral differences, which, combined with the lack of standardisation, create an unclear landscape of concepts and terms. CIPedia© will not aim at solving such conflicts. On the contrary, CIPedia© tries to serve as a point of disambiguation where various meanings and definitions are listed, guiding the reader to seek additional information to the relevant sources. CIPedia© should not attempt to decide upon a common definition, as this should be a process achieved collectively by the CIP community. CIPedia© is a collaboration platform that may facilitate efforts towards such a direction, but it will not act as a moderator on terminology discussion. }}
Roadmap
In its initial stages of development, CIPedia© may resemble to a glossary, which means it will be a collection of articles – one article per concept with key definitions – but it aims to expand more and include discussion on each concept, links to useful information, important references, disambiguation notes, etc. Just like Wikipedia, articles should begin with an appropriate definition or possible two or more rival definitions, but they should provide other types of information about that topic as well. The full articles will eventually grow into a form very different from dictionary entries. Moreover, if two concepts are used in a similar way, they can be merged into one page and a discussion on their use can follow. CIPedia© will not try to reach consensus about which term or which definition is optimum, but it will record any differences in opinion or approach.
