The TermCrest Journal
Insights on terminology, technical translation & localization.
Practical guidance for translators, localization managers, and content teams who treat terminology as infrastructure.
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How Scientific Compounds Get Their Names
Why aspirin is also "acetylsalicylic acid", "50-78-2" and "CID 2244" — a short tour of the world's chemical naming systems.
Inside the World's Largest Patent Databases
Patents are the closest thing humanity has to a public log of its own inventions. Here's how the EPO and WIPO actually keep that log.
Why Controlled Vocabularies Matter for Open Data
A dataset full of free text is hard to query. Behind the scenes, controlled vocabularies turn open data into something a machine can actually reason about.
How Wikidata Connects the World's Knowledge
Wikipedia is a library of articles. Wikidata is the database underneath — a structured, multilingual brain that quietly powers a huge slice of the modern web.
The Language of EU Law: How to Read EUR-Lex
Every regulation, directive and treaty signed in the European Union ends up in one place. Here's a tourist's map of EUR-Lex.