Problemy i wyzwania polityki terminologicznej na przykładzie baz danych terminologicznych

Terminology planning is an important part of terminology policy. Strategies which aim at developing or regulating emerging and existing terminologies must be very well planned and implemented thoroughly. One of the most important element of terminology planning are terminology databases. They are supposed to be a reliable source of terminology standards, in particular in translation process. However, it has to be pointed out that not only developing new terminology databases is crucial, but also maintaining and updating of those already existing. This paper provides some results of the research conducted on the EU's multilingual term base IATE – Interactive Terminology for Europe. The research was carried out to determine the reliability of the already mentioned term base.