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Supporting access and understanding through terminology
Terminology Services consists of:
- Repository of environmental terms, their relationships, definitions, and relevant metadata (e.g., synonyms) tool for the creation and management of terminology resources* (e.g., glossaries, taxonomies, thesauri).
- Collaboration tools - to help users develop and manage workflow and approval processes during terminology development
Additionally, terminology services include:
- User friendly interface for customer discovery of EPA terminology
- Automated access (i.e. web services) to import and export terminologies
- Training in terminology development
- Manuals and FAQs to support development and management of terminology
- Ability to publish glossaries for web pages and other uses
- Access to terminology development experts to support terminology development
- "My Glossaries" allows creation of customized glossaries
- Access to EPA's Web Taxonomy
*Synaptica KMS software has been purchased for these tasks