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GALA Webinar: Terminology Management: Neglect It At Your Own Peril

Uwe Muegge to Present Webinar about Terminology Management for Quality Assurance

12 August 2010 11:00 EDT
From http://www.gala-global.org

Uwe Muegge, Chief Terminologist and Co-Director of MedL10N at CSOFT, will present a webinar on terminology management on Thursday, 12 August. In this session, you will learn that terminology management isn’t just about localization—it’s a source-level precaution that will save you a significant amount of time and money.

There’s a common misconception among businesses engaging in localization that terminology management doesn’t apply to their product development cycle. Whether owing to the fact that traditional methods of terminology management are ineffective, or to a lack of understanding about the concrete benefits of maintaining corporate glossaries, many organizations are of the opinion that managing terminology is the sole responsibility of the language service provider (LSP) involved in a localization project.

While it’s true that a majority of marketing collateral in the SaaS sector of the globalization industry is concentrated on multilingual terminology management systems and software, this focus overlooks the fact that effective terminology management, in addition to being a quality assurance procedure that should be employed by your preferred localization vendor, is primarily a preventative measure that ought to be taken at the source-authoring stage of a product’s international development cycle.

In a nutshell: The true benefit of terminology management is rooted in its ability to anticipate and check the proliferation of consistency issues at the source level. Beyond that, terminology management can also serve as an equally viable means of correcting terminological disagreement at the translation stage of a product lifecycle.

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