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When we think of terminology management in the translation and localization lifecycle, we often think of adding a new or unknown concept into an Excel spreadsheet and maybe translating it into another language. That's actually a very simplified way of looking at terminology management and the real work is much more complex than this. The image shows a simple example of a workflow of a translation project which includes terminology management. The translation and revision steps were simplified merely to emphasize what it takes for a terminologist to finish a lifecycle of adding one single term into the termbase. Terminology as a discipline stretches back to the 18th century and identifies Carl von Linné as the founder of terminology organization, standardization, and planning. According to ISO, terminology is associated with particular areas of specialist knowledge. In terminology, we are not dealing with everyday worlds, with general language. But what we do we do with terms then t...