  COST Action 18230 INDCOR (Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity
Representations) is an interdisciplinary network of researchers and
practitioners intended to further the use of interactive digital narratives
(IDN1) to represent highly complex topics. IDN possess crucial advantages in
this regard, but more knowledge is needed to realize these advantages in broad
usage by media producers and the general public. The lack of a shared
vocabulary is a crucial obstacle on the path to a generalized, accessible body
of IDN knowledge. This white paper frames the situation from the perspective of
INDCOR and describes the creation of an online encyclopedia as a means to
overcome this issue. 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. Also, a sample entry provides guidance for authors.
