Welcome to the World’s first Dictionary of Digital Business! While the concept of digital transformation is not particularly new (people have been using the terms since at least the 1990s and in various forms much earlier than that), the phrase itself is surprisingly elusive and ill-defined. So too are many of the terms and concepts associated with digital business. Even when definitions exist, they are rarely standardized, agreed upon, or collected in the same place. While the ubiquity of the Internet and open collaboration model of Wikipedia seem to make structured dictionaries and encyclopedias obsolete (read below how Encyclopaedia Britannica has gone digital), organized and vetted knowledge still has a role to play in supporting communities of practice and in creating shared language.
This article is the preamble to the World’s First Dictionary of Digital Business and provides its justification, background, description of content, organization, and planned evolution. Last, this article will share a brief history of the rise and fall of structured and unstructured knowledge, forming the foundation for how we understand and use words today and the inspiration for this dictionary.
A germane and useful example can be found in the words digitize and digitalize. Both Merriam-Webster and Cambridge Dictionaries define digitize as something along the lines of:
To convert data (photographs, sound, printed text) into a form that can be processed by computers. To start to use digital technology.
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