21 April 2006

New terminology resource

ProZ, one of the largest translators' community, launched its new initiative: Wikiwords (still in beta version).

Wikiwords is a collaborative project to create a dictionary of all terms in all languages with definitions and example sentences.

The Wikiwords schema is built around concepts. For example, a dog is a concept. It can be conveyed in the English language with more than one term (such as dog, doggie, etc.). In Wikiwords, these terms are linked to the concept of a dog, as well as other terms in other languages that convey this same concept. Similarly, definitions and fields are also related to concepts. The diagram below summarizes the Wikiwords schema.



See more info at: ProZ.com