In this issue…

Editorial: My 5 Tips for Intelligent Terminology Management • Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA
Standards: Several LISA OSCAR Standards to Be Submitted to ISO: Update from the Recent ISO TC37 Meetings in Provo, Utah • Arle Lommel, Acting Chair, LISA OSCAR
LISA Surveys: What Global Brand Managers Can Learn From LISA’s Newest Survey • Christie Fidura, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Terminology, SDL International
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA
Standards: IP vs. Customer Satisfaction: EuroTermBank and the Business Case for Terminology Sharing • Signe Rirdance, EuroTermBank Director, Tilde
Visionaries: Dr. Alan Melby Receives the Prestigious Eugen Wüster Prize • Prof. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, Terminology Studies, Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Standards

Several LISA OSCAR Standards to Be Submitted to ISO: Update from the Recent ISO TC37 Meetings in Provo, Utah

Arle Lommel, Acting Chair, LISA OSCAR

LISA's OSCAR Standards Group, with the assistance of the LISA Terminology Special Interest Group, recently submitted the Term-Base eXchange (TBX) standard to ISO TC37 for consideration as an ISO standard. This move was intended to improve recognition of TBX and to make it easier for organizations that are mandated to use ISO standards to use TBX.

The voting with regards to TBX during the recent ISO meetings in Provo, Utah was positive overall. However, ISO member bodies and LISA members identified enough questions and issues with TBX during the ISO evaluation period that TC37 requested that it be submitted for a second round of balloting before it advances to Draft International Standard status.

This result is consistent with ISO procedures (many, perhaps most, submissions go through multiple balloting rounds). LISA and OSCAR are now in the process of addressing these concerns and making changes to resubmit TBX to TC37. We anticipate that a new version of TBX that will better address current and future needs will be ready early next year in line with an aggressive timeline adopted within ISO. We will keep readers apprised of progress on this important initiative.

In other news from the ISO meetings, discussions are now under way with TC37 to submit various other OSCAR standards to TC37 over the next two years. While ISO processes take a long time compared to LISA's internal standardization processes, this move will help facilitate adoption and recognition of our standards among a wider body of users.

In preparation for these submissions, OSCAR will be reviewing all of its standards in the near future. They therefore request that any readers that have identified implementation issues with these standards, including TMX, SRX, GMX-V and xml:tm, contact Arle Lommel (arle@lisa.org) so that OSCAR can consider them before these standards are submitted to ISO.