Terminology Documentation Centre
Foundation
The TDC is an education and research supporting department that was founded in 2006 at the University of Pécs Faculty of Economics and was approved by the 18 October 2006 session of the Council of the Faculty of Economics. In the beginning it was a part of the Economic Methodology Institute but later it became a unit of the University of Pécs Library and Centre for Learning.
The aim of establishing TDC was to create a centre of knowledge, which helps research and development and manages the results of researches. TDC wants to serve the case of knowledge, the utilization of research results in practical life and Hungarian terminology with the following activities:
- Collecting Hungarian and international terminology themed publications and ensuring accessibility to those interested.
- Issuing publications dealing with Hungarian terminology questions.
- Submitting already existing terminology collections via LAN.
- Creating and submitting other multilingual terminology collections via LAN.
- Contributing to the quality assurance of Hungarian and multilingual terminology with joint researches. Publishing joint projects’ results and making available to those interested.
- Launching international terminology projects and publishing project results in book form or via a computer network.
- Elaborating and assuring the electronic background of access.
- Developing the education base of terminology knowledge.
History
Since 1979 there has been a sector translator training and since 2003 as professional education there has been economic and social science translator and interpreter training at the University of Pécs Faculty of Economics. As part of this training a demand had been occurred for terminology education. (Terminology, Terminology and translation course, Computer-assisted translation seminar). Since 1998 it has been taught in English and German. The stages of development are being shown by conference participations, organizing own conferences (2003, 2005), researches, international projects, publications and doctoral theses on this topic.
Cooperating institutions
-Terminology Council of the Hungarian Language
-Hungarian Academy of Sciences Lexicology and Lexicography Working Committee
- Hungarian Standards Institution
- Hungarian institutions and other bodies engaged in researching terminology
- Dolceta Online Consumer Education
- Karl Franzens Universität Graz
- Landesverteidigungsakademie Wien
- The Antwerp College Faculty of the Catholic University of Leuven
- Rat für Deutschsprachige Terminologie (RaDT)
- Terminologicentrum (TNC) Sweden
International cooperation and membership
Since 2007 it has operated as a member of the national organization TermNet(Wien), which has 55 members worldwide: universities, terminology or lexicography documentation centres, software-firms (e.g. Microsoft, SDL Trados), standardization bodies, ECB, UNESCO etc. The leader of “TermDoc” has been the member of the leadership of TermNet for the second cycle. (www.termnet.at)
Since 2012 “TermDoc” has been the member of ECQA (Krems, Austria) adult education organization, whereby it took part in the elaboration of the two levels of European terminologist training and the online courses.
In Hungary “TermDoc” is entitled to perform this training and the two Hungarian trainers – dr. Márta Fischer and dr. Judit Muráth – are also members of “TermDoc”.
Since 2012 “TermDoc” has been the part of an international documentation and innovation project called: “Multilingual terminology documentation programme for enhancing international scientific exchange in cooperation with UNESCO”
The international partners are: dr. Christian Galinski, director of Infoterm (Wien) and Dr. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, director of DEUTERM (Cologne).