Transnational community - Social and cultural relations that transcend and escape the bounded spaces of the nation-state, possibly as a result of migration and diaspora or because the social group does not fit existing national boundaries (such as the Kurdish population).
Triangulation - Using multiple data sources and/or research methods to strengthen your results. For example, interviewing different populations around the same issue (multiple sources) or combining focus groups, surveys and published data such as the census (multiple sources and methods).
Validation -The process by which a model is compared with reality.
Vector map - A more realistic configuration of maps, based on points and lines which are assembled into objects such as polygons.
Vector data - is usually digitized using a mouse-like device called a puck, centred on each of the points and lines defining the map object in question.
Verification - The process by which a numerical model is checked to make sure that it is solving the governing equations correctly.
Web 2.0 - A term describing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology which focus on increased information sharing and collaboration between users. The term includes social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs and folksonomies (also known as collaborative tagging or social indexing). Web 3.0, or the semantic web, is a newly emerging concept relating to new ways of organizing information based on machine-based comprehension.
