WebTerm displays your terminology in the browser as a so-called "virtual dictionary" . That virtual dictionary can consist of several individual dictionaries which you can combine at will. This allows you to keep your terminology separated and structure it in a hierarchy and store it accordingly, and use it as a building block for WebTerm.
The dictionaries themselves are organised in databases. The terminology administrator is responsible for organising the dictionaries and databases. You will find more information in Section "Data organisation in dictionaries and databases".
Your terminology is structured into data records and stored in entries within a dictionary. Please refer to the section "Terminology data structure" for more detailed information on this topic.
You can liken the WebTerm dictionary to a conventional printed technical dictionary - except that the WebTerm dictionary offers far greater search possibilities, and you can add and edit terms as well.
The data contained in the dictionaries is organised in what are known as "databases" . A database may contain one or more dictionaries. It is comparable with a shelf on which you keep your printed dictionaries.
The dictionaries and databases are created in TermStar and maintained by the terminology administrator at a higher level.
All terminology entries displayed in WebTerm come from one or more dictionaries created at an earlier stage. When editing entries, you automatically access the dictionary which contains the entry in the relevant database.
The optional multi-database support function allows you to simultaneously access dictionaries that are stored in different databases. That means that you can run a search across dictionaries "on different shelves".
Without multi-database support, you can only access multiple dictionaries in the same database.
