Norsk terminologisk database – NOT

Resumé

In this paper the project "Norwegian terminology database. Structure and applications – NOT" and the NOT termbase are presented and discussed. I attempt at giving an assessment of the general ideas underlying the development of the termbase as well as the challenges it encounters within the framework of current Norwegian terminography. The aim of being a "living termbank" rooted in specific projects is in partial conflict with the "generic use" of the base, a problem that could possibly be reduced by introducing corpus-related methods. The possibility of developing methods for validation by introducing concepts from sociolinguistics is discussed. The NOT project and termbase should be conceived of as examples of non-centralistic terminography within a network of language resources.