Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Is TermBase eXchange (TBX) really an industry standard for terminology exchange?
Poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Post title: Options
I don’t know if TBX is an industry standard, but it is an open file format and an international standard for TermBase Exchange purposes.
Anchovy is a free utility by MaxPrograms, which offers the ability to convert glossary files (from TMX or CSV) to the TBX format (and their CAT tool, Swordfish, if I understand correctly - [url removed]
Translate Toolkit offers various command line utilities, among which one called csv2tbx -
Download: [url removed]
Documentation: [url removed]
Heartsome Translation Studio also offers the ability to convert CSV to TBX - [url removed]
TM-Town glossaries can be downloaded in TBX (and a number of other formats) and can be easily shared online with other TM-Town users (I’m not talking about selling them on the Terminology Marketplace) - [url removed]
What method or format you use for sharing terminology files depends on who you want to share them with and what CAT tools you (both) use.
As a universal alternative to TBX, CSV files are a very simple format to handle. They can be converted and imported into most CAT tools.
My preferred CAT tool (CafeTran Espresso) also supports TMX for fragments and can be used for glossaries/termbases. Being an open and widely used format, TMX can also make a good candidate for file exchange.
[Edited at 2017-10-03 20:55 GMT]
Topic: Is TermBase eXchange (TBX) really an industry standard for terminology exchange?
Poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Post title: Options
I don’t know if TBX is an industry standard, but it is an open file format and an international standard for TermBase Exchange purposes.
Anchovy is a free utility by MaxPrograms, which offers the ability to convert glossary files (from TMX or CSV) to the TBX format (and their CAT tool, Swordfish, if I understand correctly - [url removed]
Translate Toolkit offers various command line utilities, among which one called csv2tbx -
Download: [url removed]
Documentation: [url removed]
Heartsome Translation Studio also offers the ability to convert CSV to TBX - [url removed]
TM-Town glossaries can be downloaded in TBX (and a number of other formats) and can be easily shared online with other TM-Town users (I’m not talking about selling them on the Terminology Marketplace) - [url removed]
What method or format you use for sharing terminology files depends on who you want to share them with and what CAT tools you (both) use.
As a universal alternative to TBX, CSV files are a very simple format to handle. They can be converted and imported into most CAT tools.
My preferred CAT tool (CafeTran Espresso) also supports TMX for fragments and can be used for glossaries/termbases. Being an open and widely used format, TMX can also make a good candidate for file exchange.
[Edited at 2017-10-03 20:55 GMT]