On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gerard Meijssen<gerard.meijs...@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 <vac...@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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
