Terminology Management Solutions

It’s no understatement that managing terminology at an enterprise level is no small task. Determining the scope of your terminology management efforts, creating and reviewing glossaries, collaborating on the development of terminological entries, and applying the results to your localization workflow as a whole can all be a monumental undertaking.

At CSOFT, our clients often come to us and express their dissatisfaction with traditional models of terminology management and off-the-shelf software that doesn’t meet the specific needs of their organization. In response, our highly experienced group of localization engineers met with a broad range of stakeholders that are typically involved in the terminology development workflow. They spoke with translators, reviewers, technical writers, terminologists, project managers, and international regulation experts to find out where exactly the functionality of off-the-shelf “solutions” for terminology management generally fall short of user expectations.

With the knowledge they garnered, our engineers set to work on a new technological approach to terminology management that would truly solve the localization industry’s problems with multilingual content management. Their solution was TermWiki.

TermWiki is a robust terminology management system that can assist you in taking a more organized, powerful approach to the development and ongoing management of your corporate lexicon. It is the localization industry’s first completely multilingual, wiki-based online terminology management system that operates on an openly-editable, collaborative (cloud-sourcing) model.

TermWiki streamlines the traditional approach to terminology management into three practical steps:

• Collaborate – TermWiki delivers a centralized platform in which all users can gather remotely and cooperate on the development and maintenance of terminology databases in real time. In the event that disputes arise regarding the validity of a particular term or definition, Termwiki is designed to host and facilitate a structured discussion to resolve the matter.

• Develop – TermWiki can be tailored to automatically import existing term bases, and it also provides standardized forms for the convenient creation of new multilingual content. By nature of its carefully chosen group of data categories, TermWiki facilitates the consistency and ISO-compliance of old and new terms alike.

• Control – With definable notification functions, automatic history tracking, and robust user profile management features, TermWiki grants decision-makers complete control over who sees what content, and how they can interact with it.

If you are interested in streamlining your current approach to terminology management, then please feel free to read more about TermWiki.