Application to a graphical user interface: EAGLET

Based on the macromodel specified here, or a revised version of this based on interaction with the spoken language community during the course of the project, a range of presentational schemes is planned:

1. Book form terminological glossary.
2. Book form terminological concordance.
3. Relational database for spoken language terminology (EAGLET: EAGLES Termbank).
4. Semasiological access to EAGLET:
   1. JavaScript scrollable term selection menu.
   2. Static and/or dynamic concordance for Handbook text.
5. Onomasiological access to EAGLET:
   1. Nested lists.
   2. Linked image maps.
6. Access to EAGLET via global search.

Depending on the cost/benefit ratio of prioritising access development versus database content acquisition, one or more of these points may have to be curtailed.

The graphical style of presentation is eminently suited to the taxonomic or thesaurus type of onomasiological organisation, and provides an intuitive basis for access to the terminological hyperlexicon, supplementing standard semasiological access procedures.

A good example of the type of graph which can be characterised as a high granularity macromodel is the ISO graph illustrating the relations between components of the specification-development-evaluation process, shown in Figure 13.

 
Figure 13: ISO model as macromodel for SL evaluation