[Foundation-l] A heads up

[John at Darkstar]

At least the term base should be translated.
John

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> I have been in discussion with the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam about making
> their material available on Commons. The Tropenmuseum has an important
> collection on the colonial past of the Netherlands and contains a rich
> collection on Suriname and Indonesia. The initial talks are about 100.000
> images.
> 
> The annotations of this material is all in Dutch. It will come with unique
> identifiers back to the physical object in the Tropenmuseum and it will come
> with the termbase for the images; this termbase is as I understand it the
> equivalent of our categories. Some of the material has a partial translation
> in English and, this can be provided to us as well.
> 
> The key issue I want to raise is that there are hundreds of museums in the
> Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname all using Dutch there are more museums in
> Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein who speak German .... While we
> aim to improve our front end to allow for easy uploads, we do not provide
> language support. Language support will help people find pictures in their
> language and will help the matching of categories into other languages.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
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