[1] It was created in Barcelona in 1985 as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC).
[2][3] Anyone can consult the terms standardized by the TERMCAT Supervising Council, terminology products published since 1985, information from the centre's research projects, terms from consultations and projects in an advanced research phase, entries written by other entities and professionals and terminological criteria entries written by the centre.
The interface works as a multilingual thematic search engine which also enables terminology consultations of TERMCAT through a personalized service module.
The terms can relate to any area of human society and endeavor including science, art and culture, technology, business and commerce, sport, etc.
[8] The update in January 2014 offered, among other things, a series of terms relating to manga culture and to the different hand movements made when operating mobile devices.