1. 9 th Open Forum on Metadata Registries Harmonization of Terminology, Ontology and Metadata 20th – 22nd March, 2006, Kobe Japan. Commonalities and Differences between TC 37 and SC32/WG 2 in Terminological Usage and Methodological Approach Day: 2 Slot No. K2 Name: Sue Ellen Wright 1 + Gerhard Budin 2 Organization: 1 Kent State University; 2 University of Vienna

2. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Commonalities and differences  Different communities with different historical traditions –TC 37: linguistics, terminology studies, translation, information science, engineering –SC 32/WG 2: computer science, information systems, engineering, information science –Differences in scopes and thematic coverage  Shared interests and goals –Terminological precision and transparence in communication and information processes –Interoperability in heterogeneous information envirionments

3. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Variant usage between TC 37 and JTC 1/SC 32 with regard to data category and data element

4. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Complex and open data categories

5. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Closed data category

6. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Conceptual domain

7. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Simple and complex data elements in the 11179 community

8. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Data category specifications and names

9. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 ISO 12620:1999  Computer Assisted Terminology — Data Categories –Too many data categories –Commonly used data categories scattered through the standard  Application areas –Official term banks, language planning organizations, standards organizations –Major corporations, small and medium businesses –Individual terminologists, translators, and technical writers –Localization industry –Government agencies

10. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Accessibility Issues  Need for clear guidance on application- specific use of the data categories  Thematic categorization in 12620:1999  No recommended sample sets  Issue of data modeling variance  Alphabetical ordering in the new on-line version  Addition of data categories for other language resources

11. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Global Data Category Registry (DCR)  Difficulty in achieving consensus on logical ordering  Addition of new working environments in TC 37 –Lexicography –Morpho-syntactic markup –Semantic markup –NLP lexicons –SKOS environment

12. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Web Accessibility  Core standard: ISO 12620 –Rules for establishing a Data Category Registry as a metadata registry (DCR)  Registration authority  Maintenance of the DCR on the Web  Need for Guide to the data categories in order to facilitate clear and easy usability

13. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Terminology Management Environments and Aims  National, regional, and local groups establishing databases and data banks to serve the public interest on a number of levels  Standardizers and other domain-specific experts  Companies, enterprises, and governmental agencies  Individual terminologists, translators, technical writers, and students creating their own terminology resources

14. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Classification Criteria  Monolingual and multilingual  Specialized design or off-the-shelf software  Constraints involving data input, storage, retrieval, and information output  Needs of various stakeholders  Related resources –Thesauri, taxonomies, and ontologies –Semantic Web environments

15. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Criteria for a Guide to Terminological Data Categories  Replacement for ISO/TR 12618:1994, Computer aides in terminology – Creation and use of terminological databases  Variation in database structures –Simple glosses –Translation-oriented terminology management –Complex multi-application approaches

16. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Basic Data Category Groups  terms (including all source-language synonyms and equivalents in other languages)  classification of term types (e.g., synonyms, variants, full and abbreviated forms)  term-related information (grammar, etymology, register, status)  descriptive information  definitions, contexts  examples, notes, and graphic information  administrative information  identifiers of various sorts  dates, responsibility  entry status  sources, combinable with terms themselves, definitions, contexts, notes, and other pieces of information

17. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Other Guides to Data Category Selection  ISO 10241:1992 (and revision), Preparation and layout of international terminology standards –Primarily standards-oriented  ISO 12616:2002, Translation-oriented terminography –Traditional format, main-entry-term-oriented –Not focused on the principle of term autonomy –Issues with granularity and data element elementarity

18. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Issues for a New Guide  Data modeling variance and term autonomy n conjunction with the application of the closed data category termType  Locating data categories throughout the collection –Locating non-standard synonymic data category names for standardized names (use for … )  Providing sample “ common ” data category layouts –Overcoming “ presentational distance ” between different data category groups

19. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Translation-Related Dat-Cats  False friend  Degree of equivalence  Transfer comment –Anchor at language or term-section level  Directionality

20. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Standardization & Language Planning  Term status (preferred, admitted, deprecated) –Regulated terms (legal regulations) –Suggested terms  Process status (of the term entry itself)  Administrative status (of term planning phase)

21. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Links and Relations  Terminological concept systems  Controlled vocabularies (thesauri, etc.)  Classification systems  Ontologies and taxonomies –Expression in SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System markup)  Distinction between generic systems –Subsumation, is-a relations  … and non-generic, non-subsumation systems –Meronymic (partitive) relations –All other relations

22. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Links to Other Entries & Objects  Internal links to other entries –Antonym –Entailed term –See –See also –Concept system links  Links to other objects –Corpus trace (link to term in context) –Concordance links –Shared resource links, etc. –Sources & source identifiers

23. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Language-Related Links  XML:lang as a language identifier  XML:lang applied as a common locale identifier (UTS#35)  Transcription, transliteration, Romanization  Source & target language identification

24. 9th Open Forum for Metadata Registry, Kobe, 2006 Shared Data Categories  Word/term-related data categories  Standard “ lexicography ” categories (e.g., etymology, definition, etc.)  Administrative categories

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