TermNet Netherlands

TermNet is an initiative of the terminologists/editors at Translex Publishing. TermNet is a portal for resources in the field of specialized terminology (technical terminology used in industry). You will find various links here to software, data resources and other linguistic tools used by terminologists and lexicographers.

Projects currently being undertaken

The editors at TermNet are currently working on the following terminology projects:

- Technical dictionary Dutch-English & English-Dutch (currently contains 178,000 entries)
- Technical dictionary Dutch-German & German Dutch (currently contains 155,000 entries)
- Technical dictionary English-German-Dutch (currently contains 142,000 entries)
- Trilingual dictionary of electrotechnology EN-DE-NE (co-authored by Scott Ophof, contains 25,000 entries)
- Dictionary of Environment Technology NE-EN/EN-NE (authored by Graham P. Oxtoby, contains 25,000 entries)
- Online Portals for all of these dictionary projects (in ASP and ASPX - asp.Net).
- Terminology management databases for proprietary use.
- Dictionary Chemical Technology EN-DE-NE (25,000 entries, already online)

Terminology editors

Uniterm Pro (by Wolfgang Zenk & Hans Schutz, Acolada GmbH, Germany)
TermX Pro 5.0 (developed by Graham P. Oxtoby, Translex Publishing)
TermX Lite 2.0 (by Translex Publishing)
TShwane Terminology editor (tlTerm)

Screenshot of latest version of
TermX Pro terminology editor.
This editor can be downloaded immediately on successful purchase. Current users are entitled to an update to version 5.0 free of charge. The software does not include terminology as depicted in screenshot.

For more information on TermX Pro 5.0, follow this link.

Features included in TermX Pro (bilingual)

- front-end concept-based terminology database
- 3-6 translation fields for target language
- source and target swap feature
- definition/context field
- domain selector
- editor selector
- date and verification selector
- search window (searches on all three languages)
- internet links from main menu to various terminology databases
- quick viewer for use in CAT tools
- quick editor
- term extraction tool (online)
- data export to RTF, PDF, TXT, HTML and XML
- various utilities included (duplicates search, overview of most recent entries etc.)
- data import and export through MS Access and MS Excel
- terminology can be easily imported into CAT termbases
- database can be used for the design of online ASP-driven termbases (MS Access instead of SQL)
- full Unicode character format
- special character selector
- extensive help file with examples
- free updates for up to 2 years after initial purchase
- free e-mail support (within reason)

This is a terminology tool translators and terminologists will find very useful.