In:Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 24] 2025
► pp. 443–459
Chapter 20Terminology cooperation in the EU — IATE
Published online: 23 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.24.20fot
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.24.20fot
Abstract
This chapter describes the history and development of IATE, the EU’s terminology database, from 1998 to the
present day, listing some of the challenges faced in both its creation and its constant improvement, and the solutions
found. It takes us from its conception, through its complete redevelopment, to today’s state-of-the-art terminology
database. As a database owned by the European institutions and driven by the needs of translators working on EU
documents and legislation, IATE has benefitted from extensive interinstitutional cooperation, and its development has
been aided by considerable input from translators and other end users.
Article outline
- 1.Background and start of the IATE project
- 2.Early years of IATE
- 3.Public IATE
- 4.Interinstitutional cooperation
- 5.External cooperation and the Irish terminology project
- 6.Consolidation of the database
- 7.Technical developments
- 8.IATE’s public image
- 9.Language coverage
- 10.IATE 2.0
- 10.1Defining and designing the new database (2015–2018)
- 10.1.1Modified data structure
- 10.1.2New technologies, infrastructure and architecture
- 10.2Launching the new IATE (2018–2019)
- 10.3Continuous development and maintenance (February 2019–present)
- 10.1Defining and designing the new database (2015–2018)
- 11.Outlook
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