A termbase is a database containing Terms and term-related information.
When you create a termbase you have to specify:
Which languages (indexes) the termbase supports.
What data you want the termbase to hold.
How termbase fields are organized to create termbase entries.
All of this information is stored in the Termbase Definition.
Termbases can be local or server-based:
A local termbase is one that you create on your own computer.
A server-based termbase is one that is created on a server compute.
Most termbases contain terminology data in a range of different languages. Each time you open a termbase in SDL MultiTerm, you specify which language you want to use as the source language.
SDL MultiTerm uses the specified source language terms as an index to sort and search the termbase contents. Because termbase languages are used in this way, they are referred to as termbase indexes.
When you are browsing, searching, importing or exporting terms you can specify both a source and target index. Your language selections determine:
The order of languages in the Entry pane.
Which terms are returned by searches.
Which terms are included in import and export processes.
When you are searching a termbase, you can search for terms using any of the languages used in the termbase.
Termbases are structured using: