The students of ISIT created ontologies in French and in English of some of the terms that can be found in the project. It was created to give a better understanding of the organisation of the terms and how they interact with each other.

Culture was, is and will always be an important domain in the history of Europe. One of the oldest and most prestigious cultural programs is the European Capitals of Culture. As stated in the relevant documents, the initiative aims to “highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe, celebrate the cultural features Europeans share, increase the European citizens’ sense of belonging to a common cultural area, and foster the contribution of culture to the development of cities.” The action holds a prominent position in the cultural, social, and economic life of the European Union and its member-states. The different fields included in the initiative, such as social sciences, art, economy and administration, contribute to the terminological variety, underscoring the necessity for the further organisation of the relevant terminology. Our project, CULT-EL, was conducted during the second year of the Joint Postgraduate Studies programme (J.P.P.S.) “Conference Interpreting and Translation” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament (TermCoord). Our work is part of the YourTerm CULT project along with other cultural terminology projects developed by European universities. The CULT project was initiated by TermCoord in cooperation with the Institute of Intercultural Communication and Management (ISIT) of Paris and concerns the domain of European Capitals of Culture. The main goal of CULT-EL project was to find equivalent terms in Greek and English along with definition or context in English, based on the ontology in this domain of European Capitals of Culture . We received 110 terms in French prepared by the ISIT, of which 73 have been fully documented by definition or context and listed in the existing database. Our study includes the presentation of the study area, the methodology adopted, the tools used for corpus management, a detailed description of the different stages of our research and the termbase in Excel format created with the final results of our work.

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