Sandra Cuadrado va presentar l’experiència del TERMCAT en la jornada de llançament del Termportalen, el projecte de creació d’un portal terminològic a Noruega.

1. TERMCAT, THE CATALAN CENTRE
FOR TERMINOLOGY
TERMS, RESOURCES AND NEW
CHALLENGES
by Sandra Cuadrado
Launch of the Norwegian Termportalen at the University of
Bergen
8 September 2023

2. SOME HISTORY
CATALAN IS A ROMANCE LANGUAGE WHOSE
FIRST KNOWN WRITTEN TEXTS DATE FROM
THE 11TH CENTURY. NOWADAYS, IT IS A
LANGUAGE THAT MORE THAN 11 MILLION
PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND MORE THAN 9
MILLION SPEAKERS.

3. CATALAN
LANGUAGE:
A language that is
used in seven
territories
belonging to
different states

4. FOLLOWING A BAN LASTING OVER 35 YEARS ON
USE OF THE CATALAN LANGUAGE IN SPAIN
DURING FRANCO’S DICTATORSHIP (1939-1975),
THE ENACTMENT OF THE LAW ON LANGUAGE
POLICY IN CATALONIA IN 1983 BEGAN
PROMOTING THE USE OF CATALAN.

5. Introduction
WHO ARE WE?
TERMCAT Centre for terminology established in 1985
Target audiences
Core activities

6. COMPOSITION
FULLY SUPPORTED
BY THE CATALAN
GOVERNMENT
14
TERMINOLOGISTS
BUDGET 1.5 M
24 PEOPLE

7. AUDIENCE
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, UNIVERSITIES,
RESEARCH CENTRES, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AND SOCIETIES, MASS MEDIA, BUSINESS, COMPANIES,
SPECIALISTS AND LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS, ALL
OF WHOM MAY NEED TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR
PRODUCING TERMINOLOGICAL PRODUCTS, DRAFTING
OR TRANSLATING SPECIALIST TEXTS AND TECHNICAL
RULES, OR LOCALIZING DATA-PROCESSING
PRODUCTS.

8. COOPERATION WITH EXPERTS
THE CATALAN TERMINOLOGY MODEL IS BASED ON
COOPERATION. SPECIALISTS INVOLVED IN
TERMINOLOGY WORK ARE USUALLY THE BEST ALLIES
TO DEFEND ITS ADEQUACY AND UTILITY. SO WE TRY
TO INCLUDE THEM FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF
THE PROJECTS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THEIR HELP
AND INVOLVEMENT.

9. How We
Can Help
CONSULTING SERVICES
Advisory service. Thus interaction with the
community often originates from the
users
STANDARDIZATION
The output from these three core
activities (terminological production,
neologisms and user queries) provides
terminological resources and feeds
Cercaterm, our national data bank.
DICTIONARIES
Creation of terminological products

10. 1.6 MILLION
TERMS
CERCATERM
NATIONAL DATA BANK

11. CERCATERM
Sexual consent

12. 3,700 specialists
from many different
fields
Experts
collaboration from
180 different
institutions

13. MORE THAN
700
DICTIONARIES

14. The Dictionary of Climate
Emergency gathers 230
terms related to climate
change: general concepts,
causes of climate change,
effects of climate change,
mitigation and adaptation to
climate change, and
reference agreements and
organisations.
+ Infographic

15. The 'Terminology of COVID-
19' contains 425 terms
related to the pandemic of
COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2,
the coronavirus responsible
of this disease.
Infographic: COVID-19:
termes clau (set of interactive
infographics on the key
terms of COVID-19)

16. docuficció
(docufiction)
gir argumental
(plot twist)
salt enrere (flash-
back)
tast (teaser)

17. Infographic: Sexual
Consent
Terms about sexual
consensus and sexual self-
determination

18. New formats
micro-moments of
consumption
E. g. Infography “Temes i
termes de la bioètica”
(‘Bioethics subjects and
terms’)

19. How do we collaborate
with universities?
DICTIONARIES
TRAINEESHIPS
SPREADING OUR TERM PROPOSALS
NEOLOGISMS.

20. 700 terms with the
participation of all
Catalan universities
final technical report
(justificació científica)
panel of evaluation (panel
d’avaluació)
preprint
(prepublicació)

21. Terminology portals have
been promoted as a step
towards more effective
communication
between specialists on
the terminology in
the committees’ working
fields

22. ONLINE CHANNELS
FACEBOOK TWITTER

23. Digital
Marketing
Project
You don't have to do it alone!

24. FACEBOOK TWITTER
INSTAGRAM

25. NEW
FORMATS
To
communicate
our proposals

26. PARAULES
HABITABLES
PODCAST

27. New podcast strategy
Paraules habitables
7 episodes:
Tech
Gastronomy
LGBTI
Sexual Consent
Climate Change
Social Media
Sports

28. PODCAST
STEP 2
Record and Podcast Post-
Production: Edit and polish
your podcast recording.
STEP 3
Launch, distribute and share your
podcast.
STEP 1
Prepare and plan your
podcast strategy and setup.
This section explains the
different steps to take before
recording your show.

29. THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE
WITHOUT TERMS.
- TERMCAT

30. TERMCAT
About Us
WWW.TERMCAT.CAT
@termcat

32. TWITTER
@sandracuadrado
EMAIL
scuadrado@termcat.cat
MAIN OFFICE
Mallorca, 272, 1st floor 08037 Barcelona
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