The SDL MultiTerm Widget allows you to organize the vast number of terminology collections and search engines available on the internet and makes them available for you in one single place while you work. It is a desktop toolbar application that was developed to allow users who manage terminology to share this work across any medium. In a nutshell the Widget provides features that enable everyone in your company to:
The Widget can be installed together with SDL MultiTerm 2011, but it is also available as a separate installer in the My Downloads area of your SDL Account area if you own SDL MultiTerm. You can also download it from the SDL OpenExchange. The default Widget installer uses five predefined search providers:
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Simple useFor this article the Microsoft Euro-Languages Terminology Collection (free MultiTerm termbase available through the SDL OpenExchange) is used:
Advanced use By modifying the settings file on your machine, you can also add online dictionary websites and online search providers, for example:
If you are interested in setting this up on your machine:
Super-advanced useTo really get you going, here are three examples using the European Union’s multilingual termbase project, IATE. In this online terminology repository, you will find terms that have been fed into the database by EU terminologists and translators on the basis of information from translators, administrators, lawyer-linguists, experts and other reliable sources. (1) Finding results from any language:
<SearchProvider Name="IATE (All options)"> <Url>http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&query={2}&sourceLanguage=s&domain=0&matching=&start=0&next=1&targetLanguages=s&typeOfSearch=s</Url> <Icon>IATE.png</Icon> </SearchProvider> (2) Finding results from an English/German language pair only:
<SearchProvider Name="IATE (english > german / options: any)"> <Url>http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&query={2}&sourceLanguage=en&domain=0&matching=&start=0&next=1&targetLanguages=de&typeOfSearch=s</Url> <Icon>IATE.png</Icon> </SearchProvider> (3) Finding results from a language pair defined by the Widget termbase settings:
<SearchProvider Name="IATE (Language mapping)"> <Url>http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=search&query={2}&sourceLanguage={0}&domain=0&matching=&start=0&next=1&targetLanguages={1}&typeOfSearch=s</Url> <Icon>IATE.png</Icon> <LanguageMapping Type="Table"> <Language iso="de" web="de"/> <Language iso="en" web="en"/> <Language iso="fr" web="fr"/> <Language iso="es" web="es"/> <Language iso="it" web="it"/> <Language iso="bg" web="bg"/> <Language iso="cs" web="cs"/> <Language iso="da" web="da"/> <Language iso="el" web="el"/> <Language iso="et" web="et"/> <Language iso="fi" web="fi"/> <Language iso="ga" web="ga"/> <Language iso="hu" web="hu"/> <Language iso="la" web="la"/> <Language iso="lt" web="lt"/> <Language iso="lv" web="lv"/> <Language iso="mt" web="mt"/> <Language iso="nl" web="nl"/> <Language iso="pl" web="pl"/> <Language iso="pt" web="pt"/> <Language iso="ro" web="ro"/> <Language iso="sk" web="sk"/> <Language iso="sl" web="sl"/> <Language iso="sv" web="sv"/> </LanguageMapping> </SearchProvider> To give you an idea of what this looks like using the first option (all languages):
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The complete blog post can be found here: http://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/11/27/widget/. For more simplified instructions on adding resources to your SDL MultiTerm Widget, refer to KB article Adding online resources to the SDL Multiterm Widget For more information on language mapping and how to format the XML file, refer to the online help: Adding External Web Search Providers. |