TC38_2016_From IATE to IATE 2

Simplified use of the tool:

• Contextual help (with extracts from IATE Handbook)

• Search options adapted to profile

• User statistics and central statistics

• More transparent way to feed IATE

• Quicker data feeding and modification

• Clearer display of non-validated data and more prominent display of "last modification date"

• Wider search possibilities via full-text search

• Early duplicate detection mechanism and enhanced data validation

• Terminology project coordination module

• Watch entries mechanisms and quick reporting of problematic content

EVOLUTION

NEEDS

FEATURES

EXPECTATIONS

From IATE to IATE 2

Denis Dechandon

IATE Tool Manager

Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union

2003 vs. 2016

Making life easier for users

Improve...

A well-known name for an improved and brand new tool

• PCs, laptops, tablets, smart phones

• Light and user-friendly portable apps

• Responsive web design

• Advanced search options

• Interconnectivity

• User-friendly and improved look & feel

• Fast editing (predictive typing)

• Follow users' needs and wishes

• Add new features for terminologists

• Make the application transparent for translators and accessible to more users

• Have new data available in real time

• Better look and feel and easier and lighter interface

• Login made easier (automatic authentification integration)

• Quicker indexation of data (i.e. availability)

• Enhanced collaboration and interoperability (APIs, webservices)

• From e-mail to fora and information pushed to users

• Accessibility aspects taken into account

• Responsive design to respond to different target audiences

Technologies...

• create new needs

help meeting users' needs

• make applications out of date

help attracting and retaining users

Meet modern standards to attract more users, improve usability, care about accessibility and quality, increase the ROI and build on cooperations!

A DEDICATED TOOL, EurTerm

COLLABORATION BETWEEN LINGUISTS

• Collaborative platform

• Networked and multi-user

• Knowledge sharing

• Assets sharing

• Collaboration on projects

• Information tool

• Language wikis

• Contact lists (EU terminologists and other experts)

• Collection of (EU and non-EU) assets

• (Eu and international) Terminology events calendar

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

External collaborations

Translators

• Feed equivalents into the database on the fly

language terminologists

• Validate inserted data by translators in their respective institutions (native language)

• Terminology work assigned by central terminology services

• Update data fields

and central terminologists

• Terminology work coordination (all EU languages)

• Identification and consolidation of existing duplicates (entry level)

COLLABORATION WITHIN IATE

IATE MANAGEMENT GROUP

& TASK FORCES

Easier feeding & maintenance

• Thread per entry, language and term

• Queries to relevant language terminologists

• Consolidation tasks assigned directly in IATE (no e-mails,

no attachments)

• Direct communication in IATE 2 (no e-mails)

IMG

Several annual meetings, communication through

EurTerm, terminology meetings

IATE Handbook Task Force

Revision and update of the IATE Handbook, sharing of best practices

Data Clean-Up Task Force

Various strategies, approaches to a

semi-automatic clean-up, integration of IATE

data in CAT tools, better quality assurance

International organisations

• through JIAMCATT (International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology) which intends to enhance exchanges among languages services of international organizations and national bodies in order to promote the pooling of the partners' terminology resources to make them accessible to all in electronic form,

• some collaborative work (e.g. COP21)

Re-use

Conferences

• for a sharing of resources,

practices and expertise

External feedback

• from external users

• via e-mail

• analysis, dispatch and processing

Universities

• cooperation proposals

• collaborative work

• traineeships

Basics are kept

but IATE is about

to enter a new era

One single tool

Easier data consolidation

Benefits for all stakeholders

From IATE to IATE 2

or when technologies are agents of change

and means to improve users’ satisfaction