[Foundation-l] A heads up

[Pharos]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gerard
Meijssen<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Why should the term base be translated ? Is it not more important to be
> gained by getting all this material in the public domain ??
>
> I do however agree with you. All the material that is about Indonesia should
> be translated to Indonesian. For them it is very much the opening up of
> material that is part of their cultural history. Translating it into English
> does not make it easier for Indonesians to find this material.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM

Well, in the 21st century a good deal more Indonesians speak English
than Dutch, and if translation to English is relatively easy, this
will probably facilitate translation to Indonesian also.

Thanks,
Pharos

> 2009/7/15 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
>
>> 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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