Terminological Data Work Group

Objectives and Deadlines

TEI AI7 P1


1 Objectives

  1. Reformulate this list of objectives.
  2. Survey and report on usage and structure of existing terminological data formats (both for term banks and for term-file management systems) and the requirements for interchange and local work on terminological data. This work should use and incorporate the work done on this topic under the project Eurotra VII.
  3. Draft specific recommendations for the tagging of files of terminological data for interchange; this should take the form of a specific list of proposed tags with documentation of their intended usage and a description of their structural relationships. An SGML document type declaration is optional, but should be produced if possible.
  4. Provide several concrete examples of the tagging of (real) terminological data in the format recommended.
  5. If possible, demonstrate the feasibility of translation between existing term-file structures and the format recommended by this work group.
  6. Respond to comments routed to this work group by the editors.

2 Administrative

Work group reports to Committee for Text Analysis and Interpretation. Head of the work group is Alan Melby. Two or three other members of the committee to be named by the head; at least one of these to be a European.

Funding is authorized for two meetings.

3 Deadlines

Reformulation of objectives (AI7 P1) is due 28 February 1991. First draft of report on existing formats and requirements for tagging of terminological data (document AI1 W2) due 30 April 1991. Final report on existing formats and requirements (AI7 W2) due 31 May 1991. Draft specification of tag set for terminological data (AI7 W3) due 1 July 1991. Final report with draft tag set and documentation (AI7 W3) due 31 August 1991.