A terminology database (“TD”) is an organized record of controlled vocabularies and, optionally, their standard translations.

A terminology database allows you to manage commonly used terms and phrases as well as terms and phrases that must be translated in a particular way (for example, a company tag line or feature name). The terminology database is useful when you are translating in a WorldServer translation workbench, where you can click the terminology database button for a particular segment to view applicable terminology database entries. This helps in translation consistency and efficiency.

You can set up multiple databases as well as terminology database groups to serve different needs. Set up terminology databases in Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > Term Database Setup , and terminology database groups in Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > TD Groups Setup .

For example, if you are globalizing your corporate Web site, your intranet site, and your software, you could create a different terminology database for each globalization effort. This may help increase the amount of useful terminology database matches, and reduce inaccurate or inappropriate matches.

You can view a terminology database, add a terminology database entry or term, edit a terminology database entry or term, delete a terminology database entry or term, view a terminology database entry history or term history, or import or export a terminology database.