WIPO Pearl: Enhanced database

September 27, 2023

The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains over 245,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, nearly 28,000 concepts (or 89%) 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 includes 440 multilingual terminology records comprising over 1,000 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:

• National University of Córdoba, Argentina
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
• Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
• Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation
• Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, United States of America

We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.

Collaboration with subject field experts

This release features terms validated by subject field experts at:

• National University of Córdoba, Argentina
• Natural Resources Wales, United Kingdom

Also included are 50 definitions of concepts in the Geosciences field that were specially drafted for WIPO Pearl by Natural Resources Wales, United Kingdom.