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The selection of the best method for you depends on your terminological needs. An analysis of your needs is followed by a comparison with available tools to determine if any existing tools can meet at least 80 percent of your requirements. If none do, you may decide to develop a tool yourself.
Among the factors to consider are the following:
- How much data do I expect to have to manage in the short and medium term (and perhaps the long term, but the computer world changes so quickly that "long" becomes a moving target)?
- How many people will be adding terminological data to my collection?
- How many people will need to access my terminology collection?
- Where are these people located? Can I make use of the local area network for distribution, or should I be looking at the Internet?
- Will the terminology collection need to be updated over the Internet?
- Does access to the terminology collection need to be protected in any way? Can everyone who accesses it read every record? All parts of every record? Can everyone update or delete records?
- What pieces of terminological information will I decide to retain?
- How quickly will the contents of my terminology collection change? Will there be lots of updates and deletions, or mainly creations?
- How will I want to access the records in my collection? By term only? By synonyms? By dates? By subject field?
- In what languages will I be managing terminological data?
- What will happen to the terminological data I already have in other formats?
- Will I need to integrate my terminology management with text management?
- Will I need to exchange terminological data with someone else?
- What kind of computer systems (hardware and software) do I have?
- What kind of response time is required?
- Will I need to publish glossaries or vocabularies from my database?
- How many resources can I afford to look after the terminology collection?
- How much money do I have to purchase or develop a terminology management tool?
This list is not meant to be exhaustive. It is just intended to give you an idea of what to think about in light of what you have learned about available terminology management tools.
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