Term Base eXchange (TBX)

TBX specification

The TBX specification can be accessed from this page.

Why Use TBX?

Managing terminology is a crucial step in maintaining customer satisfaction, strengthening brand image, and reducing support costs for any company that is active in global markets. Managing terminology requires certain dedicated tasks throughout the content development lifecycle, and having a terminology database to support these tasks is mandatory. TBX can help you develop and use a terminology database most effectively.

TBX offers users the following advantages:

• Better control over and optimization of your information assets.
• Improved quality. With controlled terminology, both the source text and localized text will be of higher quality.
• Reduced localization cost and faster time to market. Sharing your terminology data with service providers helps them improve accuracy, reducing time spent in revisions and in terminology research.
• Freedom to use the right linguistic tools. By using open standards like TBX you are not limited to any one tool that may not be suitable for a specific project.

By providing a universal markup framework, TBX enables companies to take control of their terminology and to share it more easily with those who need it, such as business partners and language service providers.

TBX Basic

TBX-Basic is a lighter version of TBX, particularly suited to small or medium sized language industries. It is also suited for any language application that requires a lightweight approach to terminology management, such as some controlled authoring applications.

More information about TBX-Basic

Additional TBX Resources

Additional TBX resources, including the integrated RNG schema referred to in Annex F of ISO 30042, and some sample TBX files, are available from the TBX Resources page.