[tei-council] more on internationalization

[Julia Flanders]

This sounds good to me as well.

So, for how many languages could we translate <desc> and <gloss> (and 
perhaps tag names as well, or perhaps not) for $20,000? If 
translating the tag names alone, imperfectly, took two weeks, would 
one month per language for the initial translation, plus something 
for the review, be enough?

And how much would that month reasonably cost us?

To identify the translators, would it be worth our posting a call on 
TEI-L, announcing the proposal and indicating that we're seeking 
translators who would be willing to contribute some time (i.e. they'd 
get paid, but probably not fully for what their time is worth)? and 
also reviewers? Or would we prefer to identify translators ourselves?

Best, Julia

At 4:05 PM -0400 5/22/05, Syd Bauman wrote:
>>  I also think it is *much* more useful to translate e.g. the desc
>>  and gloss elements than it is to simply translate the tagnames.
>
>While I'm not as confident as Lou seems to be, I think this is
>probably the better way to go, too. There are lots of tag and
>attribute names that are not initially obvious even to a native
>English speaker. Changing them to something that's not initially
>obvious in the reader's native language would help less than
>providing a brief prose explanation in the reader's native language.
>
>I haven't thought through how this fits into the funding question,
>but it is important.
>
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