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The software company Trimble Solutions (formerly called Tekla) publishes and maintains Tekla Structures glossary, which is a terminology resource accompanying the Tekla Structures building information modelling software. The software and the glossary combine terminology from both construction and IT fields. The glossary provides terms and definitions in English for the central concepts of the software.

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in May 2021. The aim of the project is to provide definitions for some 50 concepts related to information management. The terms and concept descriptions will be given in Finnish.

The terminology work will be carried out by a terminologists of the Finnish Terminology Centre in close collaboration with subject field experts from the agency. The terminology will be finished by the end of 2021.

NOTE: The presentations are no longer available, but articles based on the presentations have been published as a part of the digital publication 'Begreppsarbete och informationshantering (NORDTERM 22)' which is available on the Nordterm website free of charge.
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Abstracts for the Nordterm 2021 webinar are now available on the webinar website.

Registration for the webinar is open until 17 May 2021. More information on registration

The Finnish Terminology Centre and the Digital and Population Data Services Agency began in November 2020 cooperation to define concepts of the EU Core Vocabularies. EU Core Vocabularies - Ehdotus suomenkieliseksi sanastoksi, a proposal for a Finnish vocabulary, contains the following vocabularies: Core Person Vocabulary, Core Public Organisation Vocabulary, Core Business Vocabulary as well as Core Criterion and Core Evidence Vocabulary.

The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) commissioned the Finnish Terminology Centre for a terminology project in the beginning of this year. The aim of the project is to provide concept descriptions for some 30 concepts related to addresses. The terms and concept descriptions will be given in Finnish and term equivalents in Swedish and English.

In 2021, the Finnish Terminology Centre will continue the terminology work, commissioned by the CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., with the aim of drawing up descriptions for the key concepts related to government grant activities and activities financed by government grants. The work is carried out in order to support the development and digitalisation of government grant activities. Tuula Lybeck, Project Manager, sheds light on the goals and history of the project in her column (available in Finnish).