At 09:12 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>We should at least aim at:
>
>multilingual conference and electronic journal web-sites
>abstracts of conference contributions in at least two languages to be
>published on
>the conference web
>publications in journals with an abstract in a different language to be
>decided by the
>author her-/himself
>publications in at least two languages in the electronic journal
I agree absolutely with all of the above. It would be a very exciting
development for the humanities computing community to share knowledge more
widely--and programmatically--across language barriers. *Especially* in
the US...
>It would seem impossible, however, to have documents translated by members
>of the lo-
>cal orgs as Geoffrey proposed. Most of us are already struggling so much
>to get through
>their work that it is not possible to take on more, it would even be
>counter productive.
I agree.
>It would be much better to get a university involved which is doing
>translation studies
>and would be willing to create or already has created a spin off
>enterprise doing transla-
>tions and thus could offer such a service to congress organisers and
>speakers / authors
>who cannot do their abstract or paper in a second language. We would
>naturally have to
>study ways to make such a service available in affordable terms. The
>umbrella organisation
>would have some responsibility there.
I take it you mean that the umbrella organization might have to spend some
money on this, especially if it were requiring the multilinguality.
John
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