Term collections
Importing and exporting
Bring terms in from spreadsheets and TBX files, and take your own collections out in open formats.
Importing
- 1Upload a CSV, JSONL or TBX file of up to 20 MiB from the collection's Import page.
- 2Termbanks stages the rows and matches them against existing concepts. Nothing is written yet.
- 3For each row, decide: create a new concept, link to an existing one, or skip. Rows close in meaning to existing concepts are flagged as hints only.
- 4Commit. A background worker writes the whole import as one change, or none of it.
The import page updates automatically while a batch is queued. On success, open the collection or its Changes tab. If status cannot be loaded, retry the status check. If the import fails, read the reason and recheck the same import plan before submitting again. You can cancel an uncommitted import; duplicate external IDs and malformed files are rejected with a reason.
Exporting
- Owners and members can export their own collections as CSV, JSONL, TBX-Basic, SKOS (Turtle), or a ZIP that adds the sources and an ATTRIBUTION.md file.
- The safe CSV option protects spreadsheet users from formula injection; Termbanks reverses it on re-import.
- Public collections can be downloaded in the same formats by anyone who is signed in, up to 30 files an hour per account. Without an account, read them in Explore or let an agent use them over MCP.