MCLS 70003, Fall Semester 2007:
Terminology
Studies, Discussion Guide SW2
| SW 2, Terminology Work – Principles and Methods |
| Instructor PowerPoint: The General
Principles of Terminology Management (See MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003/70003_SW1_GeneralPrinciples) The readings are two versions of the primary terminology standard, ISO 704, Terminology Work – Principles and Methods. The revised version is the subject of considerabld debate and disagreement. ISO 1087-1/2 documents terminology used in the standards of ISO Technical Committee 37, Terminology and other language and content resources. These standards are outdated and are undergoing serious reconsideration. |
| Readings |
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See 70003_SW2_DataModelling_DataCategories Folder on MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003 Server for articles. ISO 704: 2000. Terminology
work – Principles and Methods. ISO DISrev 704: 2007.
Terminology work – Principles and
Methods. ISO 1087: 2000. Terminology
work – Vocabulary – Theory and
Application ISO 1087: 2000. Terminology work – Vocabulary – Computer Applications Read and compare both versions of ISO 704. Come to the next class prepared to discuss the two 704 documents in particular. The purpose of ISO 704 is to introduce terminology management practices to a variety of non-terminologists, primarily subject-field specialists working in a variety of disciplines. Although these people are usually highly intelligent and literate, they frequently have little experience as linguists or lexicographers. Many will also read the documents as non-native speakers of English, and many will also not have a Western European native tongue or cultural background. The two 1087 documents were designed to document terminological usage in these documents and throughout ISO Technical Committee 37, Terminology and Other Language and Content Resources How accessable are the articles
to the
target audience? How accurate and useful are the examples? Can you
think of better ones? Are all the assertions in the documents accurate?
Are the documents well structured for the presentation of information? |
| Task Description: Prototypical Concept for ISO 704 |
| One of the long-term tasks for this class is to come up
with a better core
example for ISO 704. The old example (pencil) has been rejected for
reasons that remain unclear at this point, and serious criticism has
been voiced against the mouse
example. Can you see what the problems are with mouse
in this context and in the way the material is presented? The US
delegation to ISO TC 37 has been asked to come up with a new example
that can be used throughout the standard. SEW is going to try to work
on tree
as an example, although one of the colleagues is skeptical about tree
as well. Think about a common, everyday object, animate or inanimate,
that you might model, mimicking the approach of the standard. Try to model your idea roughly (on paper, in ppt, whatever at this point) for the various points cited in the standard. For now collect ideas and work out models in rough draft form. We will settle on a representation form for our models later. (There are several options at this point.) We will share our rough models in SW9 and plan to have completed suggestions by SW15. See deliverables for SW9 and SW15. |
| Student PowerPoint Presentations |
| There will be no student PPT for this class. |
| Deliverables |
| There are no deliverables for this class. |