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As a first start into this blogging adventure, let me focus on a current activity which I started in the context of the recent ISO/TC 37 general meetings in Pretoria in June. The context is the ongoing revision process for ISO 30042 ((ISO 30042:2008 Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content -- TermBase eXchange (TBX) )).Since its P4 edition, the TEI guidelines did not have a chapter on terminology any more. This is indeed missing since the current TEI dictionary chapter is covering semasiological views on lexical data (word to sense) and many applications require an onomasiological perspective (concept to term). For instance, translators, technical writers or language learners often manipulate terminologies, i.e. lexical structures are organised according to concepts, which in turn are subdivided in language sections (all words or expressions used to express the corresponding concept for this language) and then in term sections (all types of information needed to represent and qualify a given term). The underlying model is standardized  in ISO 16642 TMF ((ISO 16642:2003 Computer applications in terminology -- Terminological markup framework)). TBX is thus a serialization of TMF.I have now started to create an TEI/ODD specification that takes up the basic TBX structure, starting at &#60;termEntry&#62; level and allowing these to occur anywhere a traditional dictionary entry (&#60;entry&#62;) would in the TEI architecture.To illustrate this, let me just show a typical  (yet awfully simple) example. The TBX namespace is a fake one (it is under discussion and we may want to get all this in the TEI name space).&#60;TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tbx="http://www.tbx.org"xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"&#62;&#60;teiHeader&#62;...&#60;/teiHeader&#62;&#60;text&#62;&#60;body&#62;&#60;div&#62;&#60;termEntry xml:id="c5" xmlns="http://www.tbx.org"&#62;&#60;langSet xml:lang="en"&#62;&#60;tig&#62;&#60;term&#62;e-mail&#60;/term&#62;&#60;/tig&#62;&#60;/langSet&#62;&#60;langSet xml:lang="fr"&#62;&#60;tig&#62;&#60;term&#62;courriel&#60;/term&#62;&#60;/tig&#62;&#60;/langSet&#62;&#60;/termEntry&#62;&#60;/div&#62;&#60;/body&#62;&#60;/text&#62;&#60;/TEI&#62;