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The paper briefly describes the historical framework of terminology planning, complex history of language planning for the Croatian standard language, and the factors that led to the organized terminology work in the 21st century in... more
The paper briefly describes the historical framework of terminology planning, complex history of language planning for the Croatian standard language, and the factors that led to the organized terminology work in the 21st century in Croatia in the program of Croatian special field terminology and the creation of a national terminology database Struna. The national terminology database system encouraged a group of associates and researchers from the Department of General Linguistics of the Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics to produce a new terminological source of information. The basis was the terminology work in Struna database, but the new search engine was expanded by other available sources of terminology. After one year of thinking process and materials collecting, the Croatian Terminology Portal was designed as the focal point for all available contemporary terminological resources in the Croatian language. The article describes in detail what the Croatian Terminology Portal contains, what all the collaborating institutions bring together, and main features of portals' meta-search engine. Basic information is provided about the initial results of a user survey on terminology resources produced and maintained at the Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics. Ultimately, new ideas and planned collaborations are introduced, that is, the inclusion of terminological material in the Croatian language from the terminology database of the European Union IATE and the Eurovoc thesaurus via the application programming interface (API).