[tei-council] Things needing translation

[Martin Holmes]

On 13-10-22 05:36 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 22 Oct 2013, at 12:11, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>
>> As Lou said, the first priority is surely new elements which have no
>> translations at all. Following that, elements whose definitions have
>> changed since their translations were created
>
> 1)  we put up a Google Docs spreadsheet for each language showing
>   * context
>   * English as it is now
>   * current translation (if any)
>   * new translation
>   * datestamp and initials (so we can give credit)
>    we use colours to indicate priority areas and so on
> 2) we tell TEI-L about this, and ask them to fill in what they can
> 3) we back this up once a day
> 4) we write a script to update the sources from the spreadsheet
>
> would that work?

That's admirably simple and easy to do. If we ignore the issue of trying 
to separate out bits of text which have changed from those which 
haven't, then we have a bit of added value in that old versions will be 
checked again, which is no bad thing.

We could also provide spreadsheets for languages we don't yet have, if 
anyone pops up with energy and interest in providing a new language.

We could do this with Google Docs; the question is whether we make the 
spreadsheets completely public-editable, or ask people to request access 
so there's some vetting.

Cheers,
Martin

>
>> -- how to create that list
>> is what I think Sebastian and I had discussed, and I think we came to
>> the conclusion that we'd have to script a system which would look at the
>> translation dates, check out svn versions of the files from those dates,
>> and diff the English definitions against the current ones to find out
>> whether updates are needed.
>>
>
> I did have scripts which did this, but it was a while ago. not impossibly
> hard
> --
> Sebastian Rahtz
> Director (Research) of Academic IT
> University of Oxford IT Services
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)