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TermCoord’s Conferences in 2011


After last June’s successful one-day Monday, 28th March sees the launch of
conference, the general cycle entitled the first conference in the series. It will
“Terminology in the Changing World of give the opportunity to the translators
Translation” is set to continue in 2011 with to acquire a clear knowledge of the role
a series of three academic conferences. of terminology in the EU’s legislative
As many among you have expressed the procedures. For this conference entitled
wish to find out more about how the “Terminology in Legislative Procedures”,
translator’s profession is evolving and two professors specialised in the matter
having received the go-ahead from the will deal with two different aspects: legal
hierarchy to organise three conferences terminology as part of multilingualism
per year, TermCoord has committed itself and terminology on the web. There will
also be a presentation about a project that
Making Headlines
to create added value to the several
TermCoord featured in an article
conferences organised by the language the Court of Justice is developing with the
in the EP Newshound issue of
units themselves on terminology and national courts on legal terminology in
14 February. The purpose of such an article
quality assurance. several fields.
is to inform extra-DG TRAD units and
services in the EP whose activity is directly
Next Conference: “Terminology in Legislative Procedures”, Monday 28th March, 2011 or indirectly involved with terminology
and translations, about the services that
TermCoord offers. Encouraging more
. . . IATE Helpdesk 20245 . . . IATE Helpdesk . . intra-DG cooperation is not just one of
TermCoord’s main aims but it is also vital
for DG TRAD and the EP in general.

In Termino IATE News


Qualitas The terminologists and trainees of the Units
have, together with TermCoord, completed
Launched during the Babel two important projects: Rules of Procedure
and LGBT Basic Terms.
Party on 31st January, this
year’s promotional campaign Furthermore, TermCoord has started a new
internal project involving the consolidation
from TermCoord focuses on
and updating of the titles of International
quality in the IATE database.
Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions.
Aimed at all parties involved in
the production and translation
of documents, TermCoord
wants to stress the importance
New Year, New Colleague
of having highly reliable, After working for the
last seven years with the
verified entries in the IATE
Hungarian Translation
database with this campaign.
Unit, Viola Pongrácz has
This is important for the joined TermCoord as a
IATE end-users who are not linguistic coordinator
only translators in the EU responsible mainly for
institutions and bodies but also quality matters related
the general public. In fact the to terminology, external
Public IATE database receives contacts and trainees’
on average 4000 hits per hour! selection.

The role of the EP’s Terminology Coordination Service is to


march
coordinate the work of terminologists in the translation units in order
to assist translators in their day-to-day activities. 2011

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