Solving the Babylonian Confusion: an Encyclopedia for Interactive Digital Narrative

The lack of a shared vocabulary is a crucial obstacle on the path to a generalized, accessible body of knowledge about Interactive Digital Narratives. This describes a platform to solve this issue, developed in the EU COST action INDCOR (Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations) - a community-driven encyclopedia, defining concepts and applications. Two similar and successful projects (The Living Handbook of Narratology and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) serve as examples for this effort, showing how community-authored encyclopedias can provide high-quality content. The authors introduce a taxonomy based on an overarching analytical framework (SPP model) as the foundational element of the encyclopedia, and detail editorial procedures for the project, including a peer-review process, designed to assure high academic quality and relevance of encyclopedia entries.