The paper shares some experiences and conclusions gained when working with the EuroTermBank project and also while creating a terminology database at the Latvian Academy of Sciences. The author advocates that each nation has to have a terminology database where national terms are collected. Typical problems for large national terminology databases are described. Content acquisition, speedy retrieval and proper representation are three main challenges every termbase creator is facing, and the way they can be addressed is also shown.
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