Validating Terminology Database Terms

Validating terminology database terms involves deciding on an appropriate action for a proposed change or addition. Appropriate actions might include the following:

• Edit the proposal before accepting it. You may need to fill in required attributes before a proposal can be used.
• Approve a proposal as it is.
• Reject the proposal. Rejecting a proposal has two distinct behaviors depending on whether you are rejecting a change or a new term. In the case of a change, the proposal simply gets deleted. WorldServer does not keep a record of rejected change proposals, because changes frequently consist of changes to attributes or status rather than to the term itself.

  In the case of a new term, a rejection gives it rejected status. WorldServer will remember this term as a rejected term and prevent future proposals of the same term.

You can carry out the above actions either in an ad hoc manner by navigating directly to the terms or term entries in question or by creating a validation project. There are two ways to create a validation project:

• Click the Validate TD button on the Tools > Term Databases > Term Database: <TD> page. This functionality is limited because it only populates projects with terms or term entries with Proposed status.
• Click the Create Project from Result Set button in the Result Set pane when you have searched for a term in this Tools > Term Databases > Term Database: <TD> page. This populates a project with terms or term entries from the current result set.