Document "authoritative source"

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From zulip:

An "authoritative source" is the source of truth for that entry. You can consider the "authoritative source" is where the current entry (or parts of the entry) is "imported" from.

There are different levels of authoritative sources:

• authoritative source of the concept (e.g. this concept was originally defined here)
• authoritative source of a localized concept (e.g. the English term comes from here, the French terms comes from there)
• authoritative source of particular parts, such as the note, or example, etc.

If the glossary is the source of truth of an entry, then the "authoritative source" is the glossary entry itself.

A single concept can have multiple authoritative sources because one of the following conditions are true:

• There are parts of the concept entry coming from different places
• There are multiple authoritative sources that define this concept identically

In the TC 204 Geolexica, notice that the entire site only represents ISO 14812, so the authoritative source is the glossary itself.