[tei-council] more on internationalization

[M. J. Driscoll]

Just wanted to say that I think this is all a very good 
idea and will gladly contribute; I could, for example, 
arrange for translations into Danish (or some other 
Scandinavian language) and, say, Bulgarian (or Czech).

MJD

> 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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