The process of researching, choosing, defining, and updating key terms in all relevant languages to a company is called “terminology management”. Get started with terminology management with this guide!
Most language professionals might be working as translators, interpreters, or technical writers. But there is another relatively unknown profession: terminologist – the person who works with terminology. Terminology management comprises a variety of processes and tasks. It is the systematic collecting, storing, managing, importing, exporting, publishing, and maintaining of terminology in dedicated software, a so-called terminology management system.
Terminology is a very important part of the job of a technical communicator – whether it involves developing new terms for a project or following a pre-established list of terms. By using the rule “1 term = 1 concept”, the consistency of the content is maintained within documents, between documents, and between writers. This leads to improved quality as well as reduced costs and time, for both content development and translation.
