USER GLOSSARIES


CRL's Glossary tool is for custom text resources created on demand by individual users. For a given user, the range of available glossaries is controllable by configuration variables. One translator may be interested in Spanish versions of texts about human rights issues, while another may be more interested in texts and translations about trade problems.

The Glossary tool is designed to form a bridge between the Dictionary tool, the dictionary resource for relatively fixed reference works, and Translation Memory, the resource for examining previous translations in their original textual context. Using the Glossary Tool, you can create a complete custom dictionary or a small thesaurus, or simply add notes to be searched at a later time.

Like CRL's other searchable resources, your searches will be automatically expanded by a fuzzy matching scheme if your initial search fails. Fuzzy expansion can be helpful in cases where the exact form of a search term is not known, or where you may not recall the spelling of a term.

Off-line creation of glossaries is supported for existing documents that follow an SGML markup scheme.

Highlights

  • Wildcard matching of search terms.
  • User-controlled adding and modifying glossary contents.
  • Distributed access to glossaries by multiple users or controlled access by a single user.

    Configuration

    Configuring the Glossary tool for a user involves two configuration files. The Norm Data Server (NDS) provides search and retrieval services to the Oleada client, so the full range of available glossaries must be specified for the NDS server in its configuration file. New glossaries prepared using offline processes must be added to the NDS configuration file and the server must then be restarted.

    In addition, user or site level access to specific glossaries can be controlled by modifying user configuration files or site configuration files.

    Status

    The Glossary tool is currently available in all distributions of Cibola and Oleada. The tool requires the Norm Data Server (NDS) to be available to access the glossaries.

    To start the Glossary tool, click on the Glossary icon on the Cibola or Oleada tool palette.


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