RE: change on the translation pages at W3C

Ivan,

Nice work, bravo to you and your team.  And thank you for the excellent support you have given us over the years.

Best regards,


Catherine




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-translators-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-translators-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
> Sent: February 14, 2006 3:22 AM
> To: W3C Translators
> Cc: W3C Offices
> Subject: change on the translation pages at W3C
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> some of you may have already realized that the home page of the
> translations
> have changed recently. There were two problems with the old page:
> 
> - it did not scale well with the increasing number of documents that got
> translated (thanks to you!)
> - some search combinations were difficult to find (find the translations
> done by
> a specific person in a specific language, etc)
> 
> The new page (on the same URI[1]) tries to address some of these problems.
> From
> the home page you will find the usual links to lists of translations in
> specific
> languages, as well as all the translations listed in order of technology,
> language, or translator(s). There are also links to similar lists
> restricted to
> recommendations or authorized translations only.
> 
> The realy new thing is [2] which gives you an advanced search facility,
> where
> you can dig for the translations of one specific document, language, etc.
> 
> All the old URI-s are of course valid, though obviously redirected to the
> old
> system.
> 
> For those of you who are interested by the technology under the hood, so
> to say,
> you can look at[3]. Essentially: all RDF files are the same as before, but
> the
> system displaying them has been changed.
> 
> Let me take this opportunity to thank you again for your contribution. We
> list
> now over 700 translations in this database which, in my opinion, is a
> really
> large number in the circumstances of voluntary work. Thanks again
> 
> Ivan
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/TranslationSearch.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Desc.html
> 
> --
> 
> Ivan Herman
> W3C Communications Team, Head of Offices
> C/o W3C Benelux Office at CWI, Kruislaan 413
> 1098SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> tel: +31-20-5924163; mobile: +31-641044153;
> URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/