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DINT/LEATHER INFOCODE

Last modified on 19/10/01

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What is the DINT/Leather Infocode project?

• The Leather Infocode initiative
• The LI partnership
• The MLIS/DINT relationship
• The DINT/Leather infocode project
• The Database

The Leather Infocode initiative

The Infocode project, sponsored by the European Commission in the framework of the MLIS (Multi-lingual Information Society) programme,  created a working model of a multilingual thesaurus/databank relevant to the needs of one industry sector (the leather trade in this specific case). The thesaurus was then included as a demonstrator of the DINT principles so that other sectors can exploit it.

The Leather Infocode partnership

The partnership included: COTANCE as well as most European leather research institutes, namely: CTIC, AIICA, ELKEDE, SSIP, LGR, VAL. (See the GERIC page for details)

The MLIS/DINT relationship

The Commission linked the MLIS Leather Infocode project to the DINT project coordinated by TeleDanmark Consult (TDC) with The International Network for Terminology (TN) and Steppingstones Ltd (SSL) as partners.

The DINT/Leather Infocode project

The three domains addressed by the DINT/LI project are the terminology of quality management and quality assurance, the terminology of terminology, and the terminology of the leather industry. The main focus of the project was to produce a web-site and associated activities to assist the terminology work of international standards.

The overall aim of DINT/LI was to address serious problems of lack of networking and lack of coordinated high quality terminology development.

Specific objectives included:
- to assist terminology workers who are, for the most part, separated by distance in providing tools and services that help their work to continue between meetings;
- to provide termbank and encyclopaedic reference information that is permanently accessible from the web-site
- to promote and assist terminology work that combines three elements: subject field expertise, terminology science and quality management
- to promote and assist organisational quality management of information communication that includes terminology
- to ensure that all who wish to become users of the web-site tools and services are provided with the appropriate assistance to do so and that multilingual needs are systematically addressed.

The Database

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