Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Environmental Terminology Workshop 2 nd Ecoterm Group Meeting UBA - Umweltbundesamt Berlin, April 15 th 2005 EKOLab activities report April 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 Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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 (~ terms from Italian & International Thesaurus for Geosciences) –environment-related Disasters & Emergencies terminology (mainly from TED/MEDIS UBA-A initiative) Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Specific-Domain Thesauri & Terminology GIS & Remote Sensing Thesaurus (~ terms) Inland Water Thesaurus (~ terms from the EU-IST EDEN-IW project) Snow & Ice Thesaurus (~ terms. This activity is related to CNR Polar and Alpine research activities) Italian National Reference Terminology System (STeRNA) Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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 ) Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 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 3 rd meeting/workshop on the Multilingual Geosciences Thesaurus Recent Scientific Production Paper at the ISKO-Spain Conference ( Barcelona, Jul ) Paper at the TKE Conference ( Copenhagen, Aug ) 3 papers at the Enviroinfo 2005 Conference ( Brno, Sep ) Institute for Atmospheric Pollution – EKOLab Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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