Material Culture in the Computer Age - An Assessment of the Parks Canada Terminology Record as a Means of Storing Conceptual Data

Since the summer of 1992, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa has been involved in a project to complete the English version of the Illustrated and Descriptive Dictionary for Historical Collections of Parks Canada, a unit of Heritage Canada. The work is being done as part of the graduate courses Terminology and Museology and Standardization in Terminology and Museum Documentation, and also as a practicum in terminology for undergraduate English-speaking students of the University of Ottawa, mostly of the School of Translation and Interpretation, because of their training in terminology.