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Nordterm 2019 in Copenhagen 11-14 June 2019

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The Nordic cooperation forum Nordterm organizes an assembly every second year. The next assembly will be held 11—14 June 2019 in Copenhagen. The assembly will be opened with a one-day course/workshop and the program will continue with a conference. The main theme chosen for this year's conference is Terminologiens rolle i sprogteknologiske applikationer som fx virtuelle assistenter og maskinoversættelse.

International Terminology Summer School 8-12 July 2019 in Vienna

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The International Terminology Summer School (TSS) 2019 will take place 8-12 July 2019 in Vienna.

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.

Energy and release concepts

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The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK started a terminology project in September for the Statistics Finland. The aim of the project is to collect and harmonize or prepare definitions and notes for circa 30 central concepts related to energy and release statistics. Terms and concept descriptions are given in Finnish. The terminologist prepares material for work shops, where concepts are discussed and terms and concept descriptions are processed with the experts of the Statistics Finland.

New material and new markup conventions in concept diagrams in the Finnish IT Terminology 8/2018

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The Finnish Group for IT Terminology has now started to use UML (Unified Modeling Language) markup conventions in concept diagrams. The introduction of UML diagrams makes it easier to update the diagrams, and the diagrams can be seen better on different screens. The terms and definitions in the diagrams continue to act as links to the term records in question.

The terminology has also been updated. New and updated concepts: