Survey research on the standardization of vocabulary (instrumentation technology)

现行版本的《日本科学术语，仪器技术，教育部编撰》是1973年出版的。在过去的19年里，随着与这一领域有关的科学技术的显著进步，有必要更新词汇表，增加新的概念并删除那些已经过时的概念。必须谨慎选择术语，因为每个术语必须对其所有用户具有相同的含义；因此，词汇应该定义明确，并且不与当时的语言冲突。针对这些目标，一个由这些领域的19位专家组成的委员会于1990年开始了调查研究。调查可分为三个项目；(1)根据仪器仪表技术领域的层次结构对概念进行规范；(2)对分支进行分类；(3)将词汇集固定为修订版草案。草案的词汇已以书的形式报告。条款数量如下：(a)从当前版本继承的条款：1877个；(b)从当前版本修改的条款：146个；(c)新增条款：6032个；(d)（从当前版本删除的条款：416个）。

The current version of "Japanese Scientific Terms, Instrumentation Technology, compiled by the Ministry of Education" was published in 1973. With the remarkable advance of science and technology relating to this field in the past nineteen years, it has become necessary to update the vocabulary, adding new concepts and withdrawing those that have become obsolete.Terminologies must be chosen with care, since each term must have an identical meaning for all of its users ; the vocabulary should therefore be well-defined and not in conflict with language of the day. Toward these objects, survey research was started in 1990 by a committee with nineteen experts in these fields.The investigation can be divided into three items ;(1) regulation of the concept according to the hierarchical structure in the field of instrumentation technology,(2) classification of the branches,(3) fixing the vocabulary set as a draft of the revised version.The vocabulary of the draft version has been reported in book form. The number of terms is as follows :(a) terms inherited from the current version : 1877(b) terms from the current version which have been modified : 146(c) new terms added : 6032(d) (terms withdrawn from the current version : 416).