DH-lunch: Building Termportalen
In this Digital Humanities lunch talk (DH-lunch) Jan Ole Bangen gives a developer's perspective on interdisciplinary collaboration in building the national language infrastructure Termportalen.
Main content
The lecture will be held in English.
Termportalen is Norway's national terminology infrastructure, providing a search portal at termportalen.no, tools, and a competence milieu for terminology management. Government-funded and part of the University of Bergen Library's Language Collections since 2021, it serves as the hub for Norwegian terminology work in collaboration with the Language Council of Norway.
Termportalen's work requires close collaboration between terminologists and developers. This talk examines this interdisciplinary collaboration through three ongoing discussions from a developer's point of view: project-based vs. product-focused organization and its implications for terminology infrastructure; the use of evidence-based prioritization to address domain loss in Norwegian specialized language; and the collaborative development of digital workflows for terminology work and quality control. Throughout, the importance of explicitly coordinating responsibilities and competencies emerges as a recurring theme.
Jan Ole Bangen works as a developer at the University of Bergen Library.
The DH Lecture Series
The DH Lecture Series is a collaboration between the Digital Lab at the University of Bergen Library, the D-lab at NTNU and the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO). The lecture series addresses DH-related topics, and gives researchers and others involved in DH projects or research the opportunity to share their experiences, successes and challenges related to the use of digital tools and/or methods.
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In the spring of 2026, you can attend digital DH lectures on the following dates and times:
Thursday the 29th of January at 11.30AM-12.00PM
Thursday the 26th of February at 11.30AM-12.00PM
Thursday the 26th of March at 11.30AM-12.00PM
Thursday the 30th of April at 11.30AM-12.00PM
Thursday the 28th of May at 11.30AM-12.00PM
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Practical information
Sign up for the lecture by using the registration form. A Zoom link will be sent out to all registered participants the day before.
