CURRENT ISSUES OF TERMINOLOGY STANDARDIZATION IN DEPENDABILITY

Abstract

Nearly four centuries ago the English philosopher Francis Bacon, in his treatise “Novum Organum” wrote: “Loud and solemn debates of scientists often turn into disputes about words and names, and it would be prudent (according to custom and wisdom of mathematicians) to start with them and through the definitions put them in order”. Publications on dependability in Russian began to appear in the mid of the1950s, therefore in the early of the 1960s the necessity appeared for the basic concepts in this area “through the definitions to put them in order”.

The first document of this kind was developed by the USSR Academy of Sciences during 1960 – 1961 and published in 1962 [1]. Such eminent scientists and experts as A.I. Berg, N.G. Bruyevich, B.V. Gnedenko, V.I. Siforov, Y.M. Sorin, I.A. Ushakov, Y.B. Shore and other took part in development of the document. Terms were viewed from the perspective of linguistic standards compliance at the Institute of the Russian Language of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The project was released as 600 copies and distributed for discussion. Later on, 110 reviews with comments and suggestions were received. We can only dream of such a level and scale of development!