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Organization structure and activity directions

• Foundation

• Duties

• Structure

• Activity directions

Technical Committee for  Scientific  and  Technical Terminology Standardization (TC STTS) of State Committee of Ukraine for Standardization, Metrology and Certification and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine was organized by joint order of these departments No. 66 of July 22. 1992 “Organization of Technical Committee for  Scientific  and  Technical Terminology Standardization”.

According to the joint order No.66 of 22.07.92 TC STTS has such duties:

•  to work out conceptual principles and practical recommendations for Ukrainian scientific and technical terminology normalization;

•  to organize and coordinate working out, investigation and establishment of Ukrainian terminology standards;

•  to create the software and to form the standardized Ukrainian scientific and technical terminology data bank;

•  to promote an international cooperation and experience exchange in the field of scientific and technical terminology standardization, to participate in corresponding ISO and IEC committees;

•  to organize experience exchange and development of specialists’ skills in Ukrainian scientific and technical terminology standardization.

The order on the organization of TC STTS (No. 66 of 22.07.92) obliged Lviv Polytechnic Institute (now Lviv Polytechnic National University ) together with Derzhstandart Standardization and Production Quality Control Administration to work out and to present for approval of Derzhstandart and Ministry of Education (now – Ministry of Science and Education) of Ukraine Principles of TC STTS, its structure and staff, a general program of working out the state terminology standards of Ukraine in a two-month term.

 Active to nowadays “Principles of Technical Committee for Scientific and Technical Terminology Standardization” was approved by Derzhstandart and Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine the same year. The document specifies the major activities, structure and functions of TC STTS.

 TC STTS is the body of founding organizations – Derzhstandart and Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine. It was created on the base of Ukrainian Language Institute, Kyiv Polytechnic National University  (NU “KPI”), Lviv Polytechnic National University (NU “LP”), Scientific and Research Institute of Standardization, Certification and Informatics (Ukr SRI SSI).

 According to the Principles, the founding organizations have to form Administration of TC STTS headed by the Chairman, and including permanent representatives of basic organizations and organizations-founders (one from each organization – together 7 members with a casting vote).

 Now TC STTS is headed by the Chairman Associate Professor Bohdan Rytsar, Vice-Chairman - Associate Professor Bohdan Shunevych. Other members of Administration are permanent representatives of:

 Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine – Jury Jakymenko, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, vice-rector of Kyiv Polytechnic National University;

 Kyiv Polytechnic National University  – Volodymyr Shekhovtsov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of Educational and Methodical Association, vice-rector;

 State Committee of Ukraine for Standardization,    Metrology and Certification 

 Scientific and Research Institute for Standardization, Certification and Informatics of Derzhstandart of Ukraine – Yaroslav Yuz’kiv, vice-director of UkrSRI SSI;

 Ukrainian Language Institute of Ukrainian NAS – Ljudmyla Symonenko

 Lviv Polytechnic National University – Bohdan Shunevych, Associate Professor.

 The secretary in charge and directors of terminology laboratories (departments) of basic organizations have casting voices in TC STTS Administration.

 The Secretariat of TC TTS and the TC STTS Chairman’s office are situated in the premises of Lviv Polytechnic National University and financed by Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine. The Secretariat consists of a secretary in charge (Roman Rozhankivsky), a secretary from Lviv Polytechnic NU (Roman Mykul’chyk), a technical secretary (Ol’ha  Bardyla).

 There are also the following subcommittees based in Lviv Polytechnic:

 1.   Oil products – chairman Volodymyr Hymenetsky, Professor.

 2.   Machines, equipment and instruments – chairman Liubomyr Bozhenko, Associate Professor.

 3.   Electrical engineering – chairman Volodymyr Perkhach, Professor.

 4.   Chemistry – chairman V. Yavorsky, Professor.

 5.   Health protection – chairman Ljubov Petrukh, Professor.

 6.   Agriculture and forestry – chairman Rostyslav Panas, Professor.

 7.   Measurements, automatics and informatics – co-chairmen Bohdan Stadnyk, Professor, Valery Dudykevych, Professor, Roman Bazylevych, Professor.

 Some of subcommittees consist of Work Groups (WG).

The described TC STTS structure (Chapter 3) was necessary during the first, very intensive, period of TC STTS activity. 500 terminology standards were worked out during 4 years (1992 – 1995). By now the number of the standards developed has increased to about 600.

TC STTS has had the opportunity to improve methods and quality of investigation on terminology standards projects. The investigation dealt with the following issues: demands of Directive normative documents, logical and semantic investigation of concept systems, special investigation, investigation of the Ukrainian language rules. Principles and tendencies of developing Ukrainian scientific and technical terminology standards became separate spheres of TC STTS activities.

Apart from its major scientific activity (organizing and conducting state investigation of standards on terms and their definitions), TC STTS is working in the following directions:

- analyzing the existing situation in the sphere of developing Ukrainian scientific and technical terminology standards and working out proposals for Derzhstandart of Ukraine;

- working out  terminology data base and creating computerized Normalized Terminology Bank at advanced scientific and technical level;

- dealing with lexicography issues (forming, proofreading, investigating, reviewing terminology vocabularies, consulting and educating vocabulary specialists etc.);

- organizing International scientific conferences under the general title “Problems of Ukrainian Terminology”;

- organizing educational and scientific seminars for developers and experts in terminology standards and vocabulary;

- participating in other events connected with revival and development of the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian specialist terminology;

- working in the sphere of international terminology standardization and harmonization.

These TC STTS activities, based on principles of developing appropriate Ukrainian scientific and technical language and special terminology, do not lose their vitality. They are in conformity with  the Constitution of Ukraine (chapters 10, 11), and the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers “Complex Measures on Proper Development and Functioning of the Ukrainian language’. The TS STTS activities are really urgent today because “Today the language situation in Ukraine has a couple of negative effects and tendencies. Ukrainian as the state language has not been properly used in the spheres of law, education, culture, science, informatics, military affairs, jurisprudence etc”. Besides, processes of the so-called russification, based on two-language (Ukrainian-Russian) National standards of Ukraine, can be still observed, especially in the language of economics – industry, trade, informatics, communications, banking etc.