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Convert a MultiTerm SDLTB termbase to TBX (Beta)

Open a Trados MultiTerm termbase (.sdltb) without MultiTerm and export it to TBX-Basic, Excel or CSV for memoQ, OmegaT, Phrase or Wordfast.

Opens: SDLTM, SDLTB, SDLXLIFF, SDLPPX, SDLRPX
Saves: TMX 1.4b, TBX-Basic, XLSX, CSV, SDLXLIFF

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.sdltm, .sdltb, .sdlxliff, .sdlppx, .sdlrpx, .zip · up to 200 MB each, 20 files max
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    Translation memories (.sdltm), MultiTerm termbases (.sdltb), bilingual files (.sdlxliff) and project or return packages (.sdlppx, .sdlrpx). Several files at once are fine.

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    Edited review spreadsheet (optional)
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    .xlsx · up to 200 MB each, 20 files max
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      Only to update a bilingual file: upload the original .sdlxliff (or its package) above and the review spreadsheet you edited here. You get the updated .sdlxliff back.

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      Formatting and placeholders become TMX tags and <1>…</1> placeholders in spreadsheets. The SDLXLIFF review spreadsheet always keeps tags so it can be imported back.

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      Only used when updating an SDLXLIFF from an edited spreadsheet: the confirmation status given to segments whose translation changed.

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      A .sdltb file is a Trados MultiTerm termbase. Normally you need MultiTerm to export it, and other CAT tools can't read it. This page reads the termbase directly and writes TBX, the standard terminology exchange format, so the glossary can move into memoQ, OmegaT, Phrase, Wordfast, or another MultiTerm installation.

      How to convert SDLTB to TBX

      1. Upload the .sdltb. Termbases from MultiTerm 2009 onwards are read; several at once are fine. If the termbase came inside a Trados project package, you can upload the .sdlppx instead.
      2. Check the summary: number of entries and terms, languages and field names.
      3. Download Name.tbx. If entries carry pictures, also download Termbase images (ZIP) and unpack it next to the TBX, so the images/… references still point to the files.
      4. Import the TBX as a term base or glossary in your tool. In OmegaT it goes into the project's glossary folder.

      Which TBX you get

      The file is TBX-Basic in the TBX 2008 (ISO 30042) martif syntax, the flavour the CAT tools above import. MultiTerm fields are recognised by name and mapped to TBX-Basic data categories:

      MultiTerm fieldIn the TBX
      Subject or Domain (entry level)subject field
      Definitiondefinition, with its source or note
      Context or Example (term level)context
      Status or Usage: preferred, admitted, forbidden…administrative status
      Gender, Part of speech, Type (acronym, full form…)grammatical gender, part of speech, term type
      Source, Project, Clientsource, project subset, customer subset
      Created / modified by and ontransaction records with user and date

      Any field without a TBX-Basic equivalent, or with a value the mapping doesn't recognise, is written as a note in the form Field: value instead of being dropped.

      Limits worth knowing

      • Entries that contain no term at all are left out of the TBX, and the result says how many.
      • Picklist definitions and the termbase's entry layout are not part of TBX-Basic, so they are not exported. Recreate picklists in the target tool if you need them.
      • Password-protected (encrypted) termbases can't be read.

      Prefer a spreadsheet glossary? The same conversion also produces Excel and CSV files, described on SDLTB to Excel.

      More about what this tool reads and writes: Trados File Converter (SDLTM, SDLTB, SDLXLIFF, SDLPPX).

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