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Terminology as a Societal Resource: Possibilities and Responsibilities in a Changing World
Edited by Nina Pilke, Niina Nissilä and Hans Landqvist
[Terminology 27:1] 2021
► pp. 56–79

Terminology work as open, communal and collaborative crowdsourcing practice of academic communities

| University of Helsinki
| University of Helsinki
| University of Helsinki

This article introduces the Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences (HTB), as an innovative case of a terminology project which constructs a database of scholarly terms by offering a multidisciplinary platform for collaborative terminology work and niche-sourcing at the wiki-based internet platform. Moreover, the HTB is theorised as an Information Infrastructure (II) to present and dissect how a particular set of values is embedded and woven into the HTB’s design and structure. Analysing the results of the two surveys aimed at the users and experts of the HTB in 2019, the article discusses how these values are transforming and evolving further in the HTB’s multidimensional network of actors.

Keywords: LSP, niche-sourcing, information infrastructure, open science, terminology of the arts and sciences, values, wiki
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Platform, objectives and community of the HTB
    • 2.1Starting points and aims of the HTB
    • 2.2HTB’s community of administrators, experts and users
  • 3.HTB as an Information Infrastructure (II)
    • 3.1Principles of terminology work reflected in the HTB’s design
    • 3.2Language policy embedded in the HTB’s functions
    • 3.3Implementing open science in the HTB’s principles
  • 4.Manifestation of values in the content and activities of the HTB
    • 4.1Values connected to the roles and quality control of terminology work
    • 4.2Values connected to language policy
    • 4.3Values connected to open science
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Online sources
Published online: 5 July 2021
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