The Finnish Transport Agency and the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK have started a shared project which aims to expand Merenkulkualan ontologia MERO (ontology for seafaring) by adding concepts related to other modes of transport.
The International Terminology Summer School (TSS) 2017 will take place 10-14 July 2017 in Cologne. TSS is a one-week, practice-oriented training course covering a comprehensive overview of the methods and principles of terminology management. TSS is designed for language and terminology professionals, students and researchers who are looking for a comprehensive introduction to terminology management theory and practice.
Finland's National Board of Antiquities ordered ontology work from the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK to update and supplement MAO/TAO – Ontology for Museum Domain and Applied Arts. The work started in the autumn of 2016.
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/.
EAFT (European Association for Terminology) and Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament, TermCoord, are organizing the Eight European Terminology Summit in Luxembourg on 14–15 November 2016. EAFT will also celebrate its 20th anniversary on the occasion of the Summit.
In autumn 2016 the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK started a terminology project to complement and update Trimble's Tekla Structures glossary, a glossary on building modelling software. The glossary gives English term recommendations and definitions for the central concepts of the software.
The newest published version the Tekla Structures Glossary is available on the address
https://teklastructures.support.tekla.com/product-guides
In late 2015, Finland's National Board of Antiquties and the Finnish Terminology Centre started a project for extending the MAO/TAO – Ontology for Museum Domain and Applied Arts. The extended ontology was published in the ontology and thesaurus service maintained by the National Library of Finland, the Finto service.
Finnish Terminology Centre publishes online magazine Terminfo, which is meant for everyone interested in terminology and special languages. Terminfo is available free of charge for all readers and the articles deal with e.g. terminology work both in Finland and abroad, Finnish Terminology Centre's projects and study of terminology.
The International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2016), organized by TermNet (the International Network for Terminology), will take place in Vienna, 11–15 July 2016.
TSS is a 5-day training course on terminology management intended for professionals, students and scholars. The programme is available online at http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2016/programme.php and registering is open until the beginning of June.
More information: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2016/index.php
The 12th international conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, TKE 2016, will be held in Copenhagen from 22–24 June 2016. The theme of the conference will be term bases and linguistic linked open data.
The conference will be held in the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and it is organised by the Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW) together with the Department of International Business Communication in CBS.