Terminology management compact seminar (2 days)
The 2-day itl compact seminar Terminology Management focuses on the “information molecules” of technical documentation: the technical terms (also known as terms). You will learn the basics of terminology work, always with a view to its use in the field of technical documentation and also across departments.
Participants will receive a professionally usable Excel spreadsheet for initializing terminology work. The seminar is rounded off with a look at the various terminology solutions and systems for authoring support.
The terminology seminar is specially designed for practitioners who do not come from a linguistic background.
At the beginning, the lecturer introduces the technical terms used in terminology work.
In-house training can also take place at your company.
- Why terminology work must become a core process of technical editing
- Characteristics of good terminology practice
- Why Google and DeepL are simply part of the terminologist's basic work
- Challenges:
- A look at terminology standards From the semiotic triangle to the term-oriented term list
- Naming principles
- Prohibited terms and SEO terms (Search Engine Optimization)
- Definitions
- From ad hoc classification considerations to a comprehensive model of data categories
- Terminology alone is not everything: practice requires glossaries and term systems
- Terminology systems an overview
- Authoring support systems, an overview
- 7-point plan for introducing terminology work in the company
Technical editors and technical translators as well as anyone who works in technical documentation and plans documentation projects.
Terminology management compact seminar is specially prepared for practitioners who do not come from a linguistic background.
- Own laptop and PDF viewer with comment function (Adobe Reader recommended). The PDF display in the browser is inadequate and only intended for displaying pages.
For online seminars additionally:
- Own laptop with audio and video
- MS Teams client
- Internet connection with at least 25 MB/s (preferably LAN connection)
