Manuals

This manual provides procedures for the Terminology Services Coordinators who will support the stewards and users of vocabularies and the Terminology System and Services as a whole. It also addresses the procedures used by Administrators and Super-Administrators. It does not address the procedures for an IT Systems Administrator or an Oracle DBA. For those questions, please refer to the appropriate Synaptica documentation available from the Terminology System and Services Resources Extranet.

This training manual consists of the following main sections:

• An Introduction to the EPA Terminology System and Services
  
• Getting Started – Logging on, Selecting a Taskview, and Searching
  
• Creating and Modifying Glossaries & Lists of Terms and Definitions
  
• Creating and Modifying Taxonomies and Other Hierarchies
  
• Publishing a Vocabulary
  
• Setting Up a New Vocabulary

This training manual consists of the following main sections:

• An Introduction to the EPA Terminology System and Services
  
• Getting Started – Logging on, Selecting a Taskview, and Searching
  
• Creating and Modifying Glossaries & Lists of Terms and Definitions
  
• Creating and Modifying Taxonomies and Other Hierarchies
  
• Publishing a Vocabulary
  
• Setting Up a New Vocabulary

This manual provides procedures for the Terminology Services Coordinators who will support the stewards and users of vocabularies and the Terminology System and Services as a whole. It also addresses the procedures used by Administrators and Super-Administrators. It does not address the procedures for an IT Systems Administrator or an Oracle DBA. For those questions, please refer to the appropriate Synaptica documentation available from the Terminology System and Services Resources Extranet.

This manual is organized into several sections around the process recommended when planning, developing, and maintaining a vocabulary. The manual discusses how to create a new vocabulary and its content, including general good practices related to the selection of terms and relationships. A section is devoted to the issue of governance and collaborative vocabulary development. Guidelines in this manual are not mandatory but are intended to help vocabulary Editors and Stewards develop and maintain vocabularies of high quality and usefulness.