Glossaryer
Glossaryer is a professional role responsible for creating, curating, and maintaining glossaries—structured collections of terms and definitions used to ensure consistent terminology across documents, products, and digital services. Glossaryers work in fields such as technical publishing, software localization, medicine, law, and education, and may operate within a project team or as part of a terminology management function. The primary goal is to improve clarity, reduce ambiguity, and facilitate cross-language communication by documenting preferred terms, definitions, usage notes, and relationships like synonyms, antonyms, acronyms, and domain hierarchies.
Key tasks include extracting candidate terms from source material, drafting precise definitions that match the audience,
Skills commonly associated with glossaryers include strong writing and research abilities, domain literacy or subject-matter familiarity,
See also: glossary, terminologist, terminology management, lexicography, software localization.