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In today’s information and knowledge societies, specialized knowledge keeps growing and thus the volume of technical concepts and terms, i.e. terminologies.
Terminology plays a crucial role whenever specialized information or knowledge is
- created (e.g. in research and development),
- applied (e.g. in the medical or economic area),
- processed and recorded (e.g. in databases),
- transferred (e.g. through teaching and training).
Terminology is
- essential for precise and efficient communication across language and cultural barriers.
- a prerequisite for translators, interpreters and localizers.
- an indispensable component in virtually all standardization and harmonization activities.
Terminology management has become an integral part of business processes aiming at increasing productivity, quality and user satisfaction.
See also What is Terminology? at the German Terminology Portal (DTP)
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