Terminology management is the identification, organization, and use of terms. You might think it's a small thing, but we move around in a sea of terms. At some point we move forward in some sort of collective understanding. The promise of management is accuracy, coherence, and findability. Terminology includes not only a set of preferred terms, but synonyms and acronyms.
Terminology is part of every content project phase.
DITA has a glossary mechanism, using the glossentry, term, and glossref tags. Glossentry is the root tag. It's children can be glossterm, glossdef, and glossbody.
A thesaurus is a kind of taxonomy, a hierarchy of concepts. You have clear communication, we have to have agreed-upon meaning for words.
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