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Environmental Terminology Workshop
2nd Ecoterm Group Meeting
UBA - Umweltbundesamt
Berlin, April 15th 2005
EKOLab activities report
April 2004 – April 2005
P. Plini, F. Mazzocchi, S. Di Franco, V. De Santis
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Current lines of activity
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Knowledge Organisation & Terminology
Technological Development
Participation in International Initiatives
Recent Scientific Production
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Knowledge Organisation & Terminology
Thesaurus
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• completion of EARTh structure (classification and subrelations) and enhancement of its terminological content
also with
– environment-related Earth Sciences terminology (~ 1.500 terms
from Italian & International Thesaurus for Geosciences)
– environment-related Disasters & Emergencies terminology
(mainly from TED/MEDIS UBA-A initiative)
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Specific-Domain Thesauri & Terminology
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• GIS & Remote Sensing Thesaurus (~ 2.800 terms)
• Inland Water Thesaurus (~ 1.500 terms from the EU-IST
EDEN-IW project)
• Snow & Ice Thesaurus (~ 3.000 terms. This activity is related to
CNR Polar and Alpine research activities)
• Italian National Reference Terminology System
(STeRNA)
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Technological Development
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• Scientific and financial contribution to SuperThes
package development
• Implementation of a thesaurus Web Service
• Implementation of an online tool for the external
management of parts of the terminology (i.e. translations)
• Development of a software for the analysis of
concordances (Concord )
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Participation in International Initiatives
• Member of the MoU with UBA-A, UBA-G, TBHS
• Participation to the Terralingua initiative
• Member of FAO AgroVoc discussion group
• Participation at the CGI WG 3rd meeting/workshop on the
Multilingual Geosciences Thesaurus
Recent Scientific Production
• Paper at the ISKO-Spain Conference (Barcelona, Jul. 2005)
• Paper at the TKE Conference (Copenhagen, Aug. 2005)
• 3 papers at the Enviroinfo 2005 Conference (Brno, Sep.
2005)
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Thank You!
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