本文件规定了术语管理系统的基本特征，无论具体的软件工程范例、用户界面和用户辅助设计原则，以及具体的数据模型如何。这些特性可以实现术语工作的最高效率和质量，从而支持创建、处理和使用高质量术语。本文档的目标受众是软件工程师/开发人员，以及术语学家、技术交流者、翻译人员、口译员、语言规划师和学科领域专家。 本文档描述了记录、编辑、维护、交换和呈现术语数据所需的所有功能。用于识别新术语的术语提取功能不在本文档范围内。

This document specifies essential features of terminology management systems, regardless of specific software engineering paradigms, user interface and user assistance design principles, and specific data models. These features enable maximum efficiency and quality in terminology work and, thus, support creating, processing, and using high quality terminology. The intended audiences of this document are software engineers/developers as well as terminologists, technical communicators, translators, interpreters, language planners, and subject field experts. This document describes all features needed for recording, editing, maintaining, exchanging, and presenting terminological data. Term extraction features used to identify new terms are out of the scope of this document.