TermWiki™ announced as the Industry's First Collobarative and Mulitlingual Terminology Development and Management Tool
Last week CSOFT International Ltd, provider of multilingual localisation, testing and software development announced the launch of TermWiki™, a wiki-based tool to collaborate, develop and control multilingual terminology and terminology projects. TermWiki™ is to be launched in February 2010 and finds strong interest from the industry.
CSOFT understands the importance of effective terminology management and hopes to provide an intuitive, user-friendly environment to the localisation industry.
In their press release, CSOFT explains the functionality of TermWiki™:
TermWiki™ is designed to significantly expand upon the traditional approach to multilingual terminology management, providing a powerful user-friendly environment that will streamline the terminology development, management, and execution workflows for terminologists, translators, and project managers alike. Coming complete with enhanced Google-like fuzzy match search capabilities, automated notification features, detailed accessibility and user profile management, a carefully structured dispute resolution infrastructure, image and video support, as well as customizable forms embedded in the system to facilitate compliance with relevant ISO standards for the presentation of terminological data categories. Read the press release here.
It is hard to believe that the idea of a wiki-based tool has not been used for this purpose earlier, as GlobalWatchTower pointed out. Those who are familiar with terminology management will find it easy to work within the well-known wiki structure, whereas it will ease working with terminology for those who are new to the field. It may also improve language services buyers' understanding of the importance of terminology and its management in turn. EasyLSP is of course looking forward to see how TermWiki™ will change the understanding, use and management of terminology within the industry.
