1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Survey research on the standardization of vocabulary (instrumentation technology)

Research Project

Project/Area Number	01102049
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A).
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Institution	University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering
Principal Investigator	YAMASAKI Hiro University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (30092365)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	FUJIMURA Sadao University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (30010961) KITAMORI Toshiyuki University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (60010724) IIZUKA Kozo Kubota Corp., Managing director, 常務取締役 KURITA Yoshiharu National Research Laboratory of Metrology, Chief researcher, 首席研究官 MORIMURA Masanao OMTEC, Director, (株)中央研究所, 所長
Project Period (FY)	1989 – 1991
Keywords	Instrumentation technology / Standardization / Scientific terms / Vocabulary / Terminology / Measurement / JIS / ISO
Research Abstract	The current version of "Japanese Scientific Terms, Instrumentation Technology, compiled by the Ministry of Education" was published in 1973. With the remarkable advance of science and technology relating to this field in the past nineteen years, it has become necessary to update the vocabulary, adding new concepts and withdrawing those that have become obsolete. Terminologies must be chosen with care, since each term must have an identical meaning for all of its users ; the vocabulary should therefore be well-defined and not in conflict with language of the day. Toward these objects, survey research was started in 1990 by a committee with nineteen experts in these fields. The investigation can be divided into three items ; (1) regulation of the concept according to the hierarchical structure in the field of instrumentation technology, (2) classification of the branches, (3) fixing the vocabulary set as a draft of the revised version. The vocabulary of the draft version has been reported in book form. The number of terms is as follows : (a) terms inherited from the current version : 1877 (b) terms from the current version which have been modified : 146 (c) new terms added : 6032 (d) (terms withdrawn from the current version : 416).