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Since the early thirties of the 20th century, a privately owned terminology centre existed in Wieselburg (Lower Austria). It was attached to the enterprise of Eugen Wüster, the founder of the General Theory of Terminology and one of the pioneers in terminology standardization. In 1951, he took over the Secretariat of ISO/TC 37 “Terminology (principles and co-ordination)” on behalf of the Austrian Standards Institute (ON).
Following the activities of Eugen Wüster, Infoterm was established in 1971 on the basis of a contract between UNESCO and the ON. After Wüster’s death, Infoterm took over his legacy which later became the Eugen Wüster Archive at the University of Vienna. In 1996, Infoterm became an independent international non-profit association. For further information, please download “30 Years of Infoterm”.
As from August 2006 Infoterm has a regional office in Beijing, hosted by its member CNIS.
Read more about the founding and development of the organization in our document “30 Years of Infoterm”.
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