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Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge
Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 23] 2022
► pp. 87–110

Chapter 4
Terminology and standards

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This chapter views terminology-oriented activities related to standards, focusing on communities of practice. It ranges from word-oriented models to concept-oriented terminological resources, then spans the full semantic spectrum. It addresses lexicography and discourse-oriented terminology management as well as taxonomies, metadata systems for Linked Open Data strategies, concept registries, and ‘thing’-oriented repositories. It cites terminology orientation, i.e., concept orientation, term-like units, semantic ordering systems, and harmonization aimed at a Single Source of Truth. ISO standards address discourse-oriented terminology management, including translation-oriented terminology management and team-oriented industrial environments, terminology exchange, and interoperability. Tight coupling in constrained resources and effects on relative semantic strength with respect to openness and machine accessibility round out the high end of the semantic spectrum.
Keywords: terminology standards, semantic spectrum, linked open data, ontologies, information systems, thing-oriented resources, tight-, loose-, weak-, strong semantics
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Word-oriented and lexicographical resources
  • 3.Terminology resources
  • 4.Communities of practice and standards efforts
    • 4.1Lexicographers and lexicographical resources
    • 4.2Terminological language resources (ISO/TC37/SC1, 2, and 3, discourse oriented terminologies)
  • 5.Standardization linked to CoPs
    • 5.1Human-readable terminology resources
    • 5.2ISO concept collections
    • 5.3Specialized TC 37 standards
      • 5.3.1Theoretical principles and pragmatic practices
      • 5.3.2Interchangeability and interoperability
      • 5.3.3The translation error typology
  • 6.Knowledge organization and metadata resources
    • 6.1Knowledge organization systems as terminology resources
    • 6.2Terminology theory and communities of practice
    • 6.3Data categories and Linguistic Linked Open Data
    • 6.4‘Thing’-oriented collections
  • 7.Outlook
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.23.04wri