Overview

This is a list of acronyms in VA today.

Among other things, this list powers a DSVA and Lighthouse Slack bot.

Contributing

Commits directly to master are welcome. If you would prefer a review, create a pull request and select batemapf as a reviewer.

Clean up

The terms can be cleaned up for duplicates and sorted via the cleanup script.

Run it via cd scripts && ./clean.sh. An output.csv file will be generated that you can replace the acronyms.csv file with.

csvlint

You can (optionally) install csvlint to check the format of the acronyms file. It requires Ruby v2.4.9 (later versions don't seem to work), and can be installed with bundle.

Other cleanup scripts

• check_acronyms.py can be invoked to fix other issues with the acronyms file, such as moving any all-lower-case or all-upper-case definition strings to title case, and turning smart quotes (e.g. “”‘’) to regular quotes. It will output to stdout.
• print-dupe-acronyms.sh will output to stdout acronyms that have multiple definitions. It can be used to check for potential duplicates.
• print-dupe-definitions.sh will output to stdout definitions that are the same across different acronyms.
• check-spelling.sh will check the spelling of all of the words in the acronyms file and print out potential errors. You need to run install-spelling-tools.sh first.