6/2003 TJ 1 ELSST 1.2 IN FINNISH Report of the project

6/2003 TJ 2 Organisation of the project (1) Project group: Marja Oksa-Pallasvuo and Terttu Turunen, information specialists Taina Jääskeläinen, translator, FSD’s contact person Control group: project group + Susanna Keränen and Maria Forsman, information scientists, thesaurus experts

6/2003 TJ 3 Organisation of the project (2) Employed personnel: Marja - 6 months Terttu - 3 months

6/2003 TJ 4 Timetable of the project Start in December 2002 Preliminary version finished at the end of March 2003 Sent to expert group in March Last comments from the group arrived in May Revision of the preliminary version in May Final version finished at the end of May 2003

6/2003 TJ 5 Expert group Commented on the preliminary version of the translation Six researchers from social and political sciences, education, economics and statistics Each commenting on own field Five information specialists from university libraries, special libraries and Library of Statistics (all specialised in thesauri)

6/2003 TJ 6 Statistics Finnish version has 1536 preferred terms and 1490 non-preferred terms 129 translation mismatches ( 8,3 %) which corresponds to the ISO standard default value; strict criteria For about 63 % of the Finnish preferred terms in ELSST a corresponding YSA term was found (also Swedish terms from Allärs) New term suggestions for ELSST about 95

6/2003 TJ 7 Challenges (1) Concept analysis: time-consuming, enquiries Choosing of the preferred term, specific or non-specific term Contradictory comments from experts Culture-specific terms

6/2003 TJ 8 Challenges (2) Ethnic groups: terms in ELSST not relevant for all countries. Pensions: hierarchy varies from country to country, in Finnish context some terms are ambiguous –’private personal pensions’ - in F. voluntary personal pensions. Education systems, occupations

6/2003 TJ 9 Suggestions Education: we suggest International Standard Classification of Education ISCED 1997 (by Unesco) as the basis Occupations: we suggest International Standard Classification of Occupations (for European Union purposes), ISCO88 COM

6/2003 TJ 10 Working methods Aim at correlated thesaurus Exact equivalence of terms sought for If possible, equivalence with terms from Finnish national thesaurus (YSA) Extended use of non-preferred terms Enquiries for any unclear terms Use of translation scope notes, also translated to English

6/2003 TJ 11 Examples ’Disadvantaged groups’ - ’vähäosaiset’ people who have little of anything ’wildlife protection’ combined terms: Kasviston suojelu (protection of flora) Eläimistön suojelu (protection of fauna). ’Inner cities’ - concept not familiar, translated with a paraphrase. Terms with the word ’drugs’ - different terms for prescribed medicine and other drugs

6/2003 TJ 12 Final comment