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AUTHORING TOOL [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Software or a collection of software components that can be used by an author to create or modify web content for use by other people.

CONT

Authoring tools can enable, encourage, and assist users ("authors") in the creation of accessible Web content through prompts, alerts, checking and repair functions, help files and automated tools. It is just as important that all people be able to author content as it is for all people to have access to it. The tools used to create this information must therefore be accessible themselves.

OBS

web authoring tool: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that "web" not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Logiciel ou ensemble de composants logiciels qui peut être utilisé par un auteur pour créer ou modifier du contenu Web destiné à être utilisé par d'autres personnes.

OBS

outil d'édition Web; outil de création Web : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé après un nom qu’il qualifie. Il est toujours invariable.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
DEF

Any software system that is specifically designed to permit the development of computerized, on-line training programs.

OBS

Authoring software allows the creation of interactive programs for use at a terminal or microcomputer. The software created is usually called "courseware."

OBS

authoring system: term also used in the context of military training.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
DEF

Logiciel intégré [qui comprend] divers éditeurs [(éditeur de texte, éditeur graphique, éditeur de musique, éditeur de séquences audio-visuelles, éditeur de dialogues et un analyseur de réponses) et qui] permet de produire facilement des didacticiels plus ou moins complexes à l'aide d'écrans de composition.

OBS

système auteur : terme aussi utilisé dans le contexte de l'instruction militaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
DEF

Programa o aplicación de software que permite crear a las personas su propia plataforma de formación.

CONT

Los distintos tipos de herramientas de autor incluyen herramientas centradas en la instrucción, edición de páginas web, herramientas de programación, herramientas de autoría basadas en plantillas, sistemas de captura del conocimiento, creación de archivos y texto.

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