Terminology science and terminology work suffer from the relative lack of recognition of their importance, the relative sparseness of high-quality terminological resources, the labour-intensiveness (and therefore costliness) of preparing terminological data using conventional approaches, the lack of esteem for terminology work by domain experts, etc. Terminology in the sense of a representation of a set of closely related concepts is often considered to be an uninspiring subject. On the other hand, industry and research in content and knowledge management is gradually recognizing the importance of terminological methods and data. For industry, terminology – often called ontology – is important in conjunction with globalization, internationalization and localization, where it is crucial for communication (e.g. in trade, marketing, etc.), product data management, technical documentation, translation, and localization, not to say strategies in enterprise content management. Therefore, R&D increasingly concentrates on ontology studies and interoperability – aiming at true semantic interoperability in the sense of conceptual and pragmatic interoperability of structured content, which lately came to be called content interoperability, in order to differentiate it from the semantic interoperability of computer science and software engineering.
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