How Information Science Helped to Shape the Emerging Field of Terminology in Canada (1973–81)

Abstract

As the field of terminology began to take shape in Canada in the 1970s and early 1980s, it became clear that traditional linguistics methods were not sufficient to support this new field of activity. Following an analysis of five seminal Canadian French language works on terminology published during this period, we illustrate that information science had a significant influence on the development of terminology methodology by contributing ideas relating to information literacy, referencing, knowledge organization, and controlled vocabularies.