[Foundation-l] A heads up

[John at Darkstar]

If I understand you correctly this is a term base with fixed terms used
to describe the images. Such term bases are very common in archives, and
often they are standardized.

Often it is possible to translate between two sets of terms, that is
some terms will match with our categories, but if this is not possible
it is better to be able to search the terms as they are. If the terms
are in Dutch they will not be available for searching in the language of
choice for the most users.

There will be a very moderate a mouth of work to run the term base
through Google translate and manually check the result, and then make a
script to translate the term base into alternate languages. This will
greatly extend the availability of the images.

It is not unlikely the term base already relates to some other public
term base, perhaps it is a good idea to check it out. It would anyhow be
interesting to make provisions to map term bases from Dublin Core and
IPTC, probably also others, as an integral part of Commons.

John

Gerard Meijssen 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
> 
> 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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