Teaminology is a crowdsourcing application for collaborative term and translation governance developed by Welocalize. It allows users to vote on preferred translations and provides statistics on user engagement. It also enables centralized searching of terms across translation memories and glossaries. Key features include a team approach to terminology management, context metadata, and integration with translation management systems. The tool aims to engage translators, quality managers, and subject experts in a collaborative process to improve terminology consistency.

1. Teaminology
CHAT @ TCWorld, Wiesbaden, 2013
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Presented by: Lena Marg and
Christian Zeh
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2. teaminology™
A crowdsourcing application for
collaborative term and translation governance
developed @ Welocalize
Key features:
 team approach to terminology: users can vote on preferred translations,
quality is ensured through term champions
 statistics on user engagement and the frequency of their suggestions to
report on community health
 centralized platform for simultaneous term / sentence search in
Translation Memories (TMs) and glossaries
 context information through further granularity provided by metadata
 crowdsourcing for terms and for translating entire projects with a
connection into a TMS (e.g. GlobalSight)

3. teaminology™
Background and lessons learned
 First proof of concept 2011 – required enhancements
 Tool needs to be relevant, fun & engaging: focus on user-experience
 Right balance between simplicity (easy-to-use) and controlled
complexity (informed choices)
 Depending on use case, various groups can be engaged:
- end users
- translators
- quality managers
- product experts
- creative consultants
-…
 “It’s ok to make mistakes” – term managers can revisit choices
 Integration

4. teaminology™
SNAPSHOT – term governance concept

5. teaminology™
SNAPSHOT - terminology

6. teaminology™
SNAPSHOT – crowd engagement / reports

7. teaminology™
Global terminology management
Use case illustration
- build consistent language assets
- strong brand image across all languages and
markets
- reduce translation errors
- reduces legal liabilities
- shorten time-to-market
- reuse and retrieve terminology
- engage the supply chain
- connect to TMS and CMS
- global terminology governance across all
stakeholders
- reduce cost for terminology management

8. teaminology™
Harmonizing existing assets
Use case illustration
Inconsistencies
between existing
client Translation
Memories and
Termbases
Translators flag
issues as they go
along, SuperUser
fixes

9. teaminology™
Crowdsourcing & searches
Use case illustration
Translators across all MLVs and
languages can use 1 platform
for legacy translations, access
metadata (e.g. images),
quickly identify rejected terms
- and crowdsource entire new
sentences
No more search in offline local
TMs
Inspiration from other
languages (e.g. Do-NotTranslatables)

10. teaminology™
Leverage the knowledge of your experts for
better terminology

11. Contact
christian.zeh@welocalize.com
lena.marg@welocalize.com
Welocalize, Inc.
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