Svenskt terminologiarbete - en resurs for svenska myndigheter och EUoversåttare

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TNCs arbete med Eurodicautom, Europeiska kommissionens termdatabas

The paper gives a brief orientation of the goals and activities of The Swedish Centre for Technical Terminology (TNC) and the reasons why subject field specialists feel the need of determining and describing subject field related concepts and terms. The principles and methods of terminology work are described, and the importance of having subject field specialists participating in the work is particularly emphasized.Since Sweden's membership in the EU in 1995, TNC's activities have been dominated to a !arge extent by the comprehensive task from the European Commission of updating the terminologic database Eurodicautom with Swedish terminology in various fields. In four different projects, each running for twelve months, TNC has been supplementing approximately 140 000 term records with Swedish terms and references, and to some extent also with definitions and comments. The working principles in some respects diverge from the traditional methods of terminology work. In other respects, e.g. the close cooperation with subject field specialists, it has been possible to retain the principles. However, TNC has had to adapt some of the working methods to the specific conditions of these projects. The last part of the paper is a report from one of the specialists, a biologist. She decribes her motives for applying for a job within this project, and her experiences after having been involved in the work for more than a year

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Plant traits - the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants - determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and landscape management, restoration, biogeography and earth system modelling. Since its foundation in 2007, the TRY database of plant traits has grown continuously. It now provides unprecedented data coverage under an open access data policy and is the main plant trait database used by the research community worldwide. Increasingly, the TRY database also supports new frontiers of trait‐based plant research, including the identification of data gaps and the subsequent mobilization or measurement of new data. To support this development, in this article we evaluate the extent of the trait data compiled in TRY and analyse emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness. Best species coverage is achieved for categorical traits - almost complete coverage for ‘plant growth form’. However, most traits relevant for ecology and vegetation modelling are characterized by continuous intraspecific variation and trait–environmental relationships. These traits have to be measured on individual plants in their respective environment. Despite unprecedented data coverage, we observe a humbling lack of completeness and representativeness of these continuous traits in many aspects. We, therefore, conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements. This can only be achieved in collaboration with other initiatives

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

10.1111/gcb.14904GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY261119-18