WIPO Pearl: Enhanced database
March 29, 2021
The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains over 205,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, over 21,000 concepts (or 82%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and these relationships can be browsed in our Concept Map Search. Further relationships can be shown in unvalidated “concept clouds” produced via a machine learning algorithm.
Collaboration with universities
This release also includes 780 multilingual terminology records provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:
- National University of Córdoba, Argentina
- Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.
COVID-19 Glossary
WIPO Pearl was recently updated with 147 key concepts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These key concepts are provided in the 10 languages of the database and comprise in total 1,500 terms. The aim is to help provide consistency and clarity across different languages regarding key terminology of the COVID-19 pandemic. These COVID-19 terms are also available in a separate glossary which contains links to the Full Record in WIPO Pearl for each concept, where definitions, multilingual equivalents, contexts, and concept maps can be found. The glossary is also linked to PATENTSCOPE, allowing any patents containing these terms to be easily located. Finally, this collection of COVID-19 terms is available for download from the glossary.