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In effect, this simple adoption of recommendations from the ISO standards made all
previous terminology dictionaries commissioned in Wales ‘future proof’ and available
to the Welsh National Online Terminology Database project electronically and already
in a database format.
Over the course of numerous dictionary commissions, the guidelines have become
outdated compared to the latest ISO standards. Further needs have been identified,
including those to improve the interoperability of data and the reuse of software
components. Weaknesses were identified in the guidelines both in the structure
of terminological data and in the specification of data category selection. More
specifically:
Structure – a single database table is too rigid a structure. Columns were sometimes
duplicated as a means of overcoming this inflexibility in order to store multiple terms
for a single concept. This is bad database design and practice.
Data Category Selection - although a data category selection was specified, their
actual names for use in database tables were not. Therefore, across many dictionary
database tables, the field for containing, for example, the English term, has different
names such as [English] and [Saesneg] and [Term Saesneg].
Thus, the Welsh National Online Terminology Database project presented an
opportunity to update and extend our adoption of standards.
4. Welsh National Online Terminology Database
4.1 Use of Standards for the Welsh National Online Terminology Database
The Welsh National Online Terminology Database would need an improved structure
in order to scale up to the number of terms and richness of data that terminological
entry records may be expected to store in the future. The improved structure would
come from ISO 16642, a.k.a. Terminological Mark-up Framework (TMF).
The TMF simply defines an abstract or meta-model for terminological entries. From
the meta-model, Terminological Mark-up Languages (TML) can be derived to facilitate
the representation and transfer of terminology data. Thus, adoption of the TML data
model, as illustrated in the following figure, can be seen to provide a much-improved
representation for all terminology entries in the Welsh National Online Terminology
Database.
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