<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Mario,<div><br></div><div>I guess the answer to your question depends on the degree of granularity you wish to have in such a database and the intended final usage thereof. I would say your choice for a standard or best practice would be among these three:</div><div><br></div><div>- TermBase eXchange (TBX): Used particularly in the translation and localization industry and fostered by some European Projects and Initiatives (<a href="http://www.ttt.org/oscarStandards/tbx/tbx_oscar.pdf">http://www.ttt.org/oscarStandards/tbx/tbx_oscar.pdf</a>). It is equivalent to the ISO 30042 and most Terminological Tools included in Computer Assisted Tool packages support this format.</div><div>- Lexical Markup Framework (LMF): the ISO standard for Natural Language Processing and Machine Readable Dictionaries (<a href="http://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/">http://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/</a>)</div><div>- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): Although it is mainly used for corpora, it includes a dictionary module (<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml">http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Mario Crespo Miguel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div><p> Dear people from corpora list, </p><p>As for the creation of corpora, the creation of a terminology database is a very time-consuming task. I wonder if there is an international standard for the codification of terminology in order to facilitate the exchange of information (exportation and importation of terms from and into the database).</p><p>Thanks very much in advance,</p><p>Mario Crespo<br>
General Linguistics<br>
University of Cádiz </p>
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