Project:Naming Conventions

This page documents the naming conventions used in the project. When in doubt, follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Labels

Labels use sentence case in English (following English grammar rules) and capitalised nouns in German (following German grammar rules).

Item and category labels follow these patterns:

• <Begriff> — Student can define the term and describe the concept.
• Overview of <Begriff> — Student can name, describe, and classify individual parts of the concept.
• Using <Begriff> — Student can apply the concept in practice.

Examples

Type	Label	Description	Category
Topic	Human-Computer Interaction	A field of research and practice focusing on the interaction between humans and computers.	Human-Computer Interaction
Topic	Conducting an HCI Experiment	Knowledge and practice in designing, running, and analyzing experiments.
Category	Human-Computer Interaction	Category: Human-Computer Interaction.

Sessions

Session labels follow the pattern [Session title], [Abbreviation] [Semester], and aliases follow [Abbreviation] [Semester] - [YYYY-MM-DD] (ISO 8601).

✒️ "The course abbreviation is appended as a suffix so that generic titles like "Introduction and Overview" remain unambiguous across courses."

Label examples:

• Introduction and Overview, EIMI 26SS
• Studies and Experiments, HCI 26SS
• Intro, ProPä 26SS

Alias examples:

• EIMI 26SS - 2026-04-17
• HCI 26SS - 2026-06-24

The semester is formatted as [YY][SS/WS] (e.g. 26SS, 25WS). Do not use the full course title from the course catalogue as the session title. Mind capitalisation — e.g. LLMs in research, not Llms in research.

Course abbreviations:

Course	Abbreviation
Propädeutikum	ProPä
Einführung in die Medieninformatik	EIMI
Human-Computer Interaction	HCI
...	...