Pekoteko
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La Plena Pekoteko is a three-volume terminology collection extending to 1,816 pages. The word Pekoteko is an abbreviated version of Per-komputora termino-kolekto ("Computerized terminology collection").
Rüdiger Eichholz, from 1976 a member of the Akademio de Esperanto, at that time headed the Academy's technical/specialized dictionaries section. Collaborating with other Esperantists from 1968 to 1981, he maintained the Slipara Vortaro, an indexed collection of word-definition slips. Later, during the personal computer era, he started working on the Pekoteko database project.[1]
Other major contributors to this project were Bernhard Eichkorn, Bernhard Pabst and Edward Spitaels. Terminology proposals were collected between 1985 and 1990. In the foreword to the Pekoteko, Eichholz wrote: "We did not lose time in vain efforts to standardize the terms to be used for Esperanto. We simply offer them, and recommend to all readers who may require some [translated] terms, to consult our records, to read the arguments presented and to select those terms that, after reading the arguments, they judge most on-point."
In the Pekoteko the editors made a few suggestions; especially remarkable was the now-dead proposal to add the non-canonical suffix -apo for computer-related terms, such as the neologisms *desegn/apo, intended to mean "computer program for drawing" or *financ/ap/aro to mean "financial software suite"; neither term was actually adopted by the Esperanto community.