Hallo Forest listers This is in further reply to a request by Philippe Verstraete (Faculte Universitaire des sciences agronomiques, Gembloux, Belgium) about technical French-English English-French dictionaries that include all kinds of expressions used by foresters. As you probably know, the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) is a non-profit, non-governmental scientific organization open to organizations and individuals involved in forestry research. The main aim of the Union which counts around 700 member organizations, is to promote international cooperation in science embracing the whole field of research related to forestry. Since February 1995 the IUFRO Secretariat in Vienna, Austria, has been running a clearinghouse for forestry terminology. Besides the establishment of a forestry term database, the encouragement, promotion and realization of activities in forestry terminology, this service unit called SYLVAVOC has the task to collect, describe and store terminologies and relevant publications in forestry and to inform on their existence worldwide. This library of dictionaries, terminologies and other terminological publications in the field of forestry offers at present around 100 references to relevant publications. A total of 20 languages is represented . The great majority of the documents is in English. German, French and Spanish follow. In order to give you an efficient reply to Mr. Verstraete it would be useful to know more about the purpose of his request. We would then send the accurate information or all references (in total 31 additional references to E-F, F-E publications including all kind of terminological publications, 6 of them references only to E-F dictionaries. Around 20 to multilingual dictionaries including E-F). By the way, Sylvavoc has the intention to publish an International Bibliography of dictionaries and terminologies in forestry in the next future. So, any reference to such documents/publications other than E-F, but also E-F, F-E would be welcome. The documents included in the Sylvavoc-libary will also be accessible through the IUFRO homepage in due course. Best regards Renate Prueller IUFRO Secretariat/Terminology E-mail: prueller@forvie.ac.at tel: +43 1 8770151/21
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