IATE, the European Union multilingual terminology database, has evolved continuously since the launch of its modern version in November 2018. The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union, as project lead, and the IATE partners would like to present the recently developed Terminology Projects Module (TPM), which enables terminology coordinators to handle all the steps of their terminology projects within IATE. This new module offers an extensive list of metadata per project to cover the different needs of the 10 IATE partners. Project coordinators can create a preparatory material table with term candidates (coming for example from the IATE Term Extraction Module) or with already existing IATE entries (that require revision, consolidation, completion in specific languages, etc.). From this preparatory table, project coordinators can exploit numerous IATE features, including advanced duplicate detection, in order to prepare the anchor language of each concept before assigning tasks to the language terminologists. The finalised concepts are transferred to a project entries table, from which project coordinators can create assignments to teams or individual users, both EU staff or freelancers/experts. Assignees have a specific view and, for the first time, non-EU staff users have the possibility to edit content directly in the database. This module, released in several phases during 2022, will surely become the backbone to manage new and existing content in IATE. We envisage a live demo of the main features combined with explanations from central terminology coordinators.

Paula Zorrilla Agut

After having worked as an in-house and freelance translator for almost 10 years, Paula Zorrilla Agut joined the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union in 2008 as a terminology coordinator. In her 15 years of career at the Translation Centre in Luxembourg, Paula has worked as a terminology coordinator, translation workflow administrator, translator and coordinator of the IATE Support & Development Team. She was appointed IATE Tool Manager in September 2017 and also chairs the interinstitutional IATE Management Group.

Corina Ionescu (Terminology Coordination Team, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union)

Corina Ionescu holds a B.A. in Translation Studies from the Bucharest University (Romania) and an M.A. in Computational Linguistics from the Institut national des langues et civilisations
orientales (Paris, France). With a valuable experience in different areas of the language sector (translation, project management, quality assurance, CAT tools), she has been working
since 2017 as Terminology Coordinator with the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union. In this capacity, she is responsible for terminology management and project
coordination, IATE interinstitutional representation and internal technical guidance.

Suzanne Boraston (Terminology Coordination, General Secretariat, Council of the European Union)

Suzanne Boraston is a terminology coordinator in the Translation Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC). Her areas of responsibility include terminology
project coordination, IATE management and terminology training, and she is heading up the rollout
of the new IATE terminology projects module at the GSC. Before joining the Terminology Coordination team in April 2020, she worked for five years as a translator and terminologist in the
English language unit. She holds a degree in modern languages from the  University of Oxford and a Master’s in Translation Studies from the École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs.

John Kirby (Terminology Coordination Unit, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission)

In the private sector, John Kirby worked for several years as a translator, reviser, interpreter and technical writer. He also worked on machine translation systems at both Siemens and Langenscheidt. After moving to the public sector, he spent 15 years as a translator and reviser at the European Commission before moving in 2015 to the Commission Terminology Coordination unit, where his areas of responsibility include terminology project coordination, training and communication.