Re: Translations for schema.org?

Thanks, everyone for your enthusiasm on this. The Web is worldwide, and it
would be good to reflect that by having translations on the site.

As Richard points out there are 2300+ term definitions already in the
system. And more to come, as well as many in need of improvement,
clarification and fixes. And this is without considering our examples and
other supporting materials.

What I suggest is that I investigate having Google pay for a
commercially-done bulk translation of whatever we here agree upon. The
translation texts would be donated back to the project and continue to be
managed at Schema.org. The results will not be perfect but it would be a
good starting point. I imagine the translation effort would also draw
additional attention to definitions which are ambiguous or confusing.

For an example - Google's webmaster-facing documentation on our various
schema.org-using product features is translated into other languages.

So we have
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/factcheck
and nearby - with a "language switcher" option in the top-right (or
top-left I guess sometimes).

(there seems to be an URL structure to point to translations too,
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/article?hl=es
)


https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/article?hl=es#article-types
"Article objects must be based on one of the following schema.org types:
Article <https://schema.org/Article>, NewsArticle
<https://schema.org/NewsArticle>, BlogPosting
<https://schema.org/BlogPosting>."

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/article?hl=es#article-types
Los objetos Article deben basarse en uno de los siguientes tipos de
schema.org:Article <https://schema.org/Article>, NewsArticle
<https://schema.org/NewsArticle> o BlogPosting
<https://schema.org/BlogPosting>
Los objetos Article deben estar basados en uno de los siguientes tipos de
schema.org...

Objek Article harus didasarkan pada salah satu jenis schema.org berikut:
Article <https://schema.org/Article>, NewsArticle
<https://schema.org/NewsArticle>, BlogPosting
<https://schema.org/BlogPosting>
Artikelobjekte müssen auf einem der folgenden Schema.org-Typen basieren ...
Les objets "Article" doivent être basés sur l'un des types schema.org
suivants...
Gli oggetti Article devono essere basati su uno dei seguenti tipi
schema.org...
Obiekty Article muszą być oparte na jednym z tych typów schema.org...
Os objetos "Article" precisam se basear em um dos seguintes tipos de
schema.org ...
Các đối tượng bài viết phải dựa trên một trong các loại sau trên
schema.org...

etc etc etc., just to give a flavour of the kinds of schema.org-related
text we've been translating at Google.

If folks don't think it's a terrible idea, I'll dig around whether we can
make this happen with Google's assistance and funding. My hope is that by
getting the bulk of the work done as a commercial task we can focus our
community expertise and collaboration on the core business of having good
clear definitions for everything. In cases where the translating doesn't go
well, we can take that as a signal to clean up the definitions.

What do folks think?

cheers,

Dan

p.s. with regard to controlled English and simple English variants I think
they are great as inspirations but it isn't clear that they'll necessarily
be a usability improvement. We could make some experiments though!