At 16:30 14.11.02 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
Yes, that is what I mean. Furthermore, if we were able to create a
prestigious norm of multilinguality
(am I dreaming?) then members should / would be prepared to pay their share
to the roofing organi-
sation , too. Might need quite some work but on the other hand we now have
a medium which allows
a lot of variety / flexibility. Why should we accept then that our richness
of cultures / languages / iden-
tities are reduced only because it is simpler.
>John
Elisabeth
HD Dr. Elisabeth Burr
Fakultät 2 / Romanistik
Gerhard-Mercator-Universität
Geibelstr. 41
47058 Duisburg
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/
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