1. Terminology Life Cycle Management
Increasing Company-Wide
Terminology Collaboration
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2. Who we are
 Translation, Terminology and Authoring tools
 Major technology partnerships
 Sister of
eurocom Translation Services, Vienna
 Own developments extending SDL products:
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quickTerm
globalReview
smartQuery
expertTools
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3. Terminology Processes Today
 Collaboration
 Participation
 Acceptance
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4. Life-Cycle Management: Our Vision
 Sustainable,
permanent
terminology
process
Need
Feedback
Request
Check
& Prepare
Change
 True collaboration
and acceptance
Discuss
& Vote
Use
Extend
/ Translate
Approve
 How can we engage people?
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5. Critical Success Factor: Engagement
 Crowdsourcing
@ Facebook
 100.000 words,
70 languages
 FR translated by
4.000 users in
24 hours – voluntarily (*)
 WHY?
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Cause-driven
Product-driven
Community-driven
Enthusiasm & engagement
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(*) Sawyers, P (April/ May 2009). "Facebook's un-rebellion". Multilingual (62).
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6. Critical Success Factor: Engagement
 Simple & fast
access points
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Windows App
Browser / Tablet
Smartphone
Fuzzy etc.
Tree navigation
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7. Critical Success Factor: Engagement
 Collaborative
 Workflow
 Communication
 Self-Marketing
 Social Web
 „Edutainment“
 Fun Factor
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8. About Fronius
Three divisions, one goal: technological leaps that set standards.
Welding Technology
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Solar Electronics
Terminology Life Cycle Management
Battery Charging Systems
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9. About Fronius
ACTIVE PATENTS
EMPLOYEES
Innovation in figures:
we currently own 864 active patents.
3,239 people work in the 20 international Fronius
subsidiaries worldwide.
TURNOVER
APPRENTICES
The development of young
talent is important to
Fronius. We currently
employ 122 apprentices.
Fronius achieved a
turnover of 402 million
euros in 2012.
Partners
Sales partners / representatives in more than
60 countries
EXPORT
Fronius supplies the world: we export
93.4% of our products.
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R & D EMPLOYEES
As we always want to be the
leader, we employ 425 people
in Research and Development.
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10. Why invest time and money into
terminology work?
 Consistent Wording (of course the main reason)
 Eliminating project names from corporate
communication
 Making sure to be „state of the art“
 Respecting copyrights of competitors
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11. Terminology is essential for everyone
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12. ‚drum coil‘ or ‚MarathonPack‘
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13. ‚MarathonPac‘ is the trademark of a
competing company
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14. Avoid unpleasant mistakes
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15. 3 steps to an approved term
Approval in
terminology group
Research and
terminology work
in German and
English
Term request
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16. Our focus: Top quality & simple search
quickTerm Web
for all Fronius employees
via intranet
quickTerm Client
Multiterm Client
Excelling MT
for terminologist
Term requests,
feedback on
terms
quickTerm Client
for approvers in R&D,
Marketing and
Service
Term requests,
feedbacks,
approvals
Search for terms
Termbase
Is synchronized with the translation
service provider
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17. Status quo
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approx. 5,500 German and 39,000 foreign-language terms
universally valid
battery charging systems
solar electronics
welding technology
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18. Fronius
International
source-language
terminology
a
Reviewers
(Fronius
subsidiaries)
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al
rov
pp
eurocom
Translation
Services
quickTerm
quickTerm
(DE + EN)
Multilingual terminology
the process we trust in…
‚translation‘
Translators
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19. Fronius
International
source-language
terminology
a
al
rov
pp
Reviewers
(Fronius
subsidiaries)
eurocom
Translation
Services
quickTerm
quickTerm
(DE + EN)
Multilingual terminology
the process we trust in…
‚translation‘
Translators
synchronisation
MultiTerm server Fronius
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MultiTerm server eurocom
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20. Who we are
 University of Vienna
 Largest University
in the German-speaking world
 Diversity of students and
employees
 Need for standardized
university terminology
organisational
units
degree
programmes
domain –specific
terminology
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professorships
universityspecific
terminology
key
research
areas
administrative
terminology
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21. Terminology Collaboration
 UniVieTerm
 the terminological database
of the University of Vienna
 containing university terminology
 Prescriptive terminology work
 in German and English
 by a terminology committee
 for administrative university terminology
 based on predefined roles
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22. Social Approach in Terminology
 End-users
 search for terms
 request terms
 log terms
 send feedback
 like entries
 contribute with their knowledge
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23. Social Approach in Terminology
 Enhancing motivation
and engagement
 Terminology quiz
 Term of the week
 Live chat
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24. Outlook
 Collaborative and social elements in terminology:
 Enhance motivation and engagement of end-users
 Increase acceptance of and participation in terminology work
 Assure quality of terminological resources
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Terminology Life Cycle Management
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