Re: [translate-pootle] Gnome glossary project

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 29/11/2006, at 4:49 PM, Josep Puigdemont wrote:

> El dc 27 de 09 del 2006 a les 16:10 +0930, en/na Clytie Siddall va
> escriure:
> > On 27/09/2006, at 6:50 AM, Young Joo Pintaske wrote:
> >
> > > I think I might have lost some part of this email thread, but  
> > > couldn't
> > > locate them in the archive.
> > >
> > > I saw the Gnome Glossary website:
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/glossary/
> > >
> > > and noticed an old colleague of mine who used to work in our  
> > > group as
> > > the contact person.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how this project originated back then. I'd like to
> > > pass on
> > > the glossary tool that we use at Sun Globalization:
> > > https://g11nportal.sun.com/sungloss
> > >
> > > It requires user account which you can get immediately. You can find
> > > terms (English and translated into about 9-10 languages) for Gnome
> > > there
> > > and export glossary for your language into a spreadsheet. I'd be  
> > > happy
> > > to get your feedback on them and find a way to collaborate to
> > > refine the
> > > glossaries.
> >
> > Young Joo, at Wordforge (Pootle, Translate Toolkit etc.), we are
> > currently working on expanding the Gnome glossary, refining both a
> > 1000 word and a much larger terminology file, plus an acronym file.
> > It will be integrated into the Pootle interface, but will also be
> > available from a translation memory server, and for download.
>
> So the glossary will be used as a translation memory, then?
>
> It's important for us to know, in part because there are some verbs to
> translate and if this file is just a reference or a glossary, then  
> we'd
> translate them as infinitives (i.e. "to open" instead of "open"),
> otherwise (ie. if it is a translation memory) we'd keep the imperative
> form as in English.

Definitely as translation-memory. So we do give priority to the form  
most likely to be used in localization tasks (usually not the  
infinitive, as you say).

The Wordforge end of this glossary project is progressing only in  
occasional leaps, when Youssef Chahibi or I find enough time to work  
on it. But we will get there... ;)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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