Terminologies are crucial resources for any kind of translations. However, the electronic tools specialized in terminology creation and management are proprietary, paid (and well paid) and basically single user.

Globs is a free collaborative online system that provides complete terminology handling and management based on Web 2.0. This is an academic project which means it's free of charges at any time and on any update.

Main Features:

• create custom glossaries
• collaborative terminology edition with user management
• define an entirely custom terminology structure
• export your glossaries
• advanced search engine
• it's free and will always be
• Web based: you just need a browser to handle your data

Isn't that nice? :)

The Logo

The logo of the site is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph which stood for the honored profession of the scribe. It had also other meaning such as the substantive of the word "writer"', it also represented the verb "to write". More extensively this hieroglyph could represent the fact of storing the knowledge on a resource that will allow to be consulted on a far or close future.

The hieroglyphic symbol itself has three parts: a brush, a container for water, and a holder for two ink-blocks (usually one was red and the other was black). The curve between the water container and ink blocks indicates that the scribe's tools were carried over one shoulder from one work place to another.

Therefore, the scribe certainly is the icon that represents what this webapp is all about:

• a store of structured data ;
• Web-accessibility: wherever, whenever ;
• cooperative and mass edition ;
• charges and bug-free.