Excerpt from Donald A. DePalma’s blog entry on CSOFT’s TermWiki: “CSOFT announced TermWiki, a multilingual terminology management solution based on wiki technology. As a wiki, it is web-based, supports collaboration out of the box, and provides users with a familiar interface for managing a terminology database. The company hopes to overcome traditional objections to systematic term management.<\/p>\n
Our research consistently finds that terminology management is one of those practices that everyone knows that they should be doing better, more systematically, or even just doing at all — but don’t (see” The Case for Terminology Management,” Feb09). We regularly encounter companies where terminology has jumped the tracks. For example, one manufacturer found that it used 120 variations of a product name, while another employed a different term in a truck repair manual than the component a mechanic could actually order from the parts depot. These cases represent the tip of the iceberg for the absence of formal terminology management in product development, documentation, marketing, and support.<\/p>\n
So why don’t companies do a better job managing their terminology as part of their intellectual property? In these budget-straining times, a terminologist and supporting technology might be more than companies want to spend. For others, term management has as much appeal as a colonoscopy. In most cases, though, it’s the combination of terminology management software’s high cost, low levels of usability, and limited ability to integrate the solution that limit demand.<\/p>\n
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