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TermNet, which has
been established as a non-profit association but with commercial objectives
for the benefit of its members, heartfully welcomes the establishment
of the Association for Terminology and Lexicography (ATL).
Seen from the point of view of developing a terminology market consisting
of suppliers of terminological products and services and their users,
TermNet invites the members of ATL to join efforts with a view to developing
and providing the market with terminological data, tools and services,
as required.
ATL will certainly be interested in the fact that not only
at European level, but also in East Asia and some countries in Latin America
terminological products and services have been recognized as instrumental
in fostering development and innovation in private industry, public administration,
science and research, education and training etc. The activities of the
Workshop CEN/ISSS/eCAT "Multilingual eCataloguing" in the framework of
the Information Society Standardization System of the European Standards
Committee is a striking evidence for the recognition of terminological
methods in eBusiness, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning etc. In an internal
document, the EU Commission placed "content" (in terms of product description
and classification, which cannot do without terminology) in the centre
of its standardization strategy.
In industry, a new type of terminologist is emerging: the manager of - more often than not multilingual - content
resources needed to operate knowledge management systems. In this connection,
terminologists may also offer qualifications in terms of "soft skills"
urgently needed in international project management, cross-cultural communication,
etc. TermNet is looking forward to a most interesting development of traditional
and new professional profiles of terminologists and is ready to support
ATL by word and deed.
Best regards and wishes,
Christian Galinski
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