Developing Products for Multinational Markets: Effective Terminology Management
09:00 - 17:00 : Monday, October 22, 2007
Workshop Agenda
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Welcome and Introduction
- What is terminology, and why should I care about it?
|
| 09:30 - 10:20 |
Users and uses
- How terminology can be used to enhance different business processes
- Needs of authors, translators, and other users
- Ways to store terminology data for reuse
|
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 12:15 |
Best practices for managing terminology
- What is a term?
- What to do when a term means different things?
- What to do when different terms mean the same thing?
- What about abbreviations?
- Definitions, context sentences, usage notes, etc.
- Properties of a good terminology management system
- Relevant standards
|
| 12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:40 |
Markup formats
- Formats in localization tools
- Formats in authoring tools
- TBX, TBX-link, TBX-Basic
- Other terminology formats
|
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
The big picture
- Data requirements for extended uses (search engines, controlled authoring, etc.)
- End-to-end flow of terminology in a development project
|
Ask LISA
