MetaTerm is a not-so-pretentious terminology management application written in the Python programming language.

It is designed as a totally open source, cross-platform application and it is built upon standard technologies such as the SQLite DBMS. This makes it possible to have the internal representation of the termbase stored as a simple file on your local disk, leaving the possession of your terminological information entirely in your hands.

Apart from the Python runtime environment and the language standard library which should be provided by any Python distribution (version 3.x), the program relies on the Qt graphical toolkit, via the PyQt (version 4.10) language bindings. In order to achieve data persistence, the SQLAlchemy library (version 0.8) is also needed as a dependency.

MetaTerm supports the creation of term-oriented and concept-oriented terminological databases (a.k.a. termbases) with a user-defined structure, allowing you to record terminological information at the concept level, at the language level or term level, as described in the TMF metamodel (in accordance to the ISO 30042 2008 standard).

MetaTerm is free software, released under the GPLv3 license. See LICENCE for further information about what you can (and can't) do with the software.