For their annual interdisciplinary workshop, the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS) solicits papers on all aspects of standards and standardisation.

18. -19. April 2008 - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim. Der fachbezogenen Kommunikation kommt heute eine entscheidende Bedeutung zu. Die Terminologie, die der Fachkommunikation zugrunde liegt, bildet die Grundlage für die Weitergabe und den Austausch von Wissen, Technologie und vielen Fertigkeiten; außerdem ist sie ein wichtiges und wirksames Instrument im Wissensmanagement.

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On 8-10 August 2007, China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies(CNCTST) and Heilongjiang University hosted The Second Conference on Chinese Terminology in Harbin, China. About 40 experts from universities, publish houses and CNCTST attended the conference.

To achieve forgiving roads in Europe, the EU co-funded IN-SAFETY project has investigated the combination of new technologies with existing infrastructure to improve road safety. Numerous cooperative solutions have been analysed, including in-vehicle speed alerts based on information provided by road-side beacons and cooperative lane-departure warnings, and from these, six scenarios have been selected, elements of which will be tested in real and simulated trials around Europe.

The work on self-explanatory roads has essentially focused on preparing recommendations for harmonised road signing (electronic and static) in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual Europe.

Mark your calendar for the 11th Annual Open Forum for Metadata Registries (OFMR). The next OFMR will be held on May 19-22, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. More information on the programme will be available soon on http://metadataopenforum.org/

At the recent ISO Technical Committee 37 meetings in Provo, Utah, it was announced that long-time LISA Member and Contributor, Dr. Alan Melby (along with Teresa Cabré), had received the 2007 Eugen Wüster Prize for dedication and contributions to the field of terminology.

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The  Localization  Industry  Standards Association would like to learn your opinion  about  TermBase  eXchange  (TBX),  an  XML  format  for markup and exchange of terminology data.

With enormous sadness, we write on behalf of the executive board, members and entire staff of the International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm), to convey our deepest sympathy upon the loss of your colleague, Director for Language Planning and Terminology Coordination, Xolile Telford Mfaxa and...

The World Language Documentation Centre (WLDC), which comprises world-renowned experts in language technologies, linguistics, terminology standardisation, and localisation, was officially launched on 9 May 2007 at the offices of UNESCO in Paris.

ISO/TC 37, the International Organisation for Standardization's Technical Committee dealing with the standardization of principles and methods of "Terminology and other language and content resources" is conducting a survey in the course of a user group analysis.

Szombathely, Hungary. 9th - 10th of November, 2007. Organised by the Department of Uralic Studies, the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Terminology Innovation Centre at Berzsenyi Dániel College (Szombathely, Hungary)...

25 - 28 June 2007. Lemesos, Cyprus. CEN and CENELEC are delighted to announce that they will be holding their third joint Annual Meeting in June 2007 during which their respective General Assemblies will take place.

Open information days at CEN on European standardization. Brussels, 17 - 18 April 2007. Due to the great success of the first StandarDay, CEN is organizing a second information session, which will take two days instead of one. The first day consists of a general introduction on European Standardization...

The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) (http://www.lisa.org) announces that it has entered into a licensing agreement with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to submit its Term-Base eXchange (TBX) standard (http://www.lisa.org/standards/tbx/) for adoption as an ISO standard under ISO fast-track ballot procedures.

Im Vorfeld seiner Jahresmitgliederversammlung veranstaltet der Deutsche Terminologie-Tag e.V. (DTT) am 16. März 2007 an der Fachhochschule Köln den Workshop "Terminologiearbeit: Methoden und Normen".

TermNet, represented by Dr. Christian Galinski, at the reception by the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on the occasion of the National Day in recognition of the more than 20 years of services rendered by TermNet for China, starting at a time, when TermNet was still a joint project of infoterm and the UNESCO.

The world would not be the same without standards: our supermarkets would lack most of its good because importing them would be far too costly, international communication would break down, tourism would not exist.

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...