New material has been published in the Bank and Finance Terminology. For more information see the Finnish announcement.
The Bank and Finance Terminology can be found at the address http://www.tsk.fi/tsk/pankkisanasto/.
New and updated concepts:
New and updated concepts:
Statistics Finland has enlisted the Finnish Terminology Centre to update the Classification of Buildings which was published in 1994. The updated classification will correspond with the present state of the building trade in Finland. In order to chart the scale of updates required Statistics Finland and the Terminology Centre organized a questionnaire for the relevant interest groups in the turn of the year, and in 2017 the updating work shall continue based on the answers to the questionnaire.
The National Emergency Supply Agency and the Ministry of Defense have initiated a shared project with the Finnish Terminology Centre. The project aims to compile a vocabulary which will include some 50 key concepts related to cyber and information security. The concepts will be given definitions and term recommendations in Finnish, Swedish and English. The definitions will be translated into Swedish and English at a later date. The terminology work began in May 2017 and the vocabulary will be ready for publication in the spring of 2018.
The Vocabulary of Comprehensive Security (TSK 47), which contains some 180 concepts related to the field, was compiled by the initiation of the Finnish National Rescue Association SPEK and published in late 2014. The vocabulary is based on legislation and certain Government Decision-in-Principles such as the Security strategy for society.
The National Board of Antiquities (NBA) commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK to update MAO/TAO Ontology (Ontology for Museum Domain and Applied Arts) in two phases between 2015 and 2017. In spring 2017 NBA assigned TSK to further develop the ontology by adding some 700 concepts related to cultural landscapes. The concepts are derived from different vocabularies and registries related to the field.
The client data system for public employment and business services and the electronic services connected to the system will be restructured as a part of the regional government reform. To facilitate the restructuring a specific project, TE-digi, was launched by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and KEHA centre (the development and administration centre for the ELY Centres and TE Offices).
The National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has compiled a vocabulary on structured registration. The vocabulary includes the key concepts which appear in national specifications and handbooks on Kanta Services (the national data system services for healthcare services, pharmacies and citizens). THL aims to harmonize and further develop these concepts and also compose diagrams on them and it has enlisted The Finnish Terminology Centre to facilitate the work.
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority enlisted the Finnish Terminology Centre to expand Liiketoimintaontologia (LIITO) (Business ontology). Together with experts from FCCA TSK shall produce definitions to the key concepts in data bank on the Consumer Ombudman’s decisions and also add certain concepts selected by FCCA into the ontology.