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Environmental Terminology Workshop 2 nd Ecoterm Group Meeting UBA - Umweltbundesamt Berlin, April 15 th 2005. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab. EKOLab activities report April 2004 – April 2005 P. Plini, F. Mazzocchi, S. Di Franco, V. De Santis. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Environmental Terminology Workshop2nd Ecoterm Group Meeting
UBA - UmweltbundesamtBerlin, April 15th 2005
EKOLab activities reportApril 2004 – April 2005
P. Plini, F. Mazzocchi, S. Di Franco, V. De Santis
Current lines of activity
Knowledge Organisation & Terminology Technological Development Participation in International Initiatives Recent Scientific Production
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Knowledge Organisation & Terminology
Thesaurus• completion of EARTh structure (classification and sub-
relations) 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
• 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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• 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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Technological Development
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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