- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 07:14:35 +0200
- To: Alexander Savenkov <w3@hotbox.ru>
- CC: w3c-translators@w3.org
Alex, Your page was tremendously useful already, and I can just express my gratitude for having done it... in the coming weeks I hope to gradually add the notes and other docs to the list. As for the typographical errors: thanks in advance! Ivan Alexander Savenkov wrote: > Hello translators, Ivan, Martin, > > 2003-05-09T16:05:42Z Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > > >>we have renewed the translation pages of W3C at >>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/. This is not only a facelifiting, >>but a change in the way we manage translations. Until now, the various >>lists of translations were kept up-to-date by hand. From now on, all data >>on translations are collected and stored on our site in RDF, which allows >>us to generate automatically various 'views' of the data, eg, lists of all >>French translations or of all the translations of XML1.0. Note, however, >>that at this moment only the translations of Recommendations, and of >>documents like WAI Quick Tips, W3C in 7 points, etc, are listed. >>Translations of various W3C notes and of candidate/proposed recommendations >>are not yet in the database, but will be added soon. As new translations >>come in (through the translator's mailing list) the RDF data is updated. >>(For the time being this is a manual update, we are working on a more >>automatic method of doing so.) > > > This renders the previous list for Russian translations obsolete. > It's a pity the page is no longer needed while it's a pleasure to see > the results of your work. I hope to see an automated service for > keeping a list of translated terms one day. :) > > The translations of CRs/PRs/Notes are not listed yet, thus I will keep > the list at w3.hotbox.ru in the meanwhile. > > >>Some of you maintain your own list for, eg, all Russian translations of W3C >>documents, or of all available translations of a particular W3C document. >>You should consider using the new facilities to maintain those lists, >>instead of maintaining the list yourself. We offer various possibilities to >>do that: > > >>- you can simply refer/redirect to a full XHTML page on either a language >>or a list of translation of a particular technology. Of course, you have >>then no control over the output format... ;-) >>- you can invoke a script returning an XHTML fragment that you can include >>in your page (either on-the-fly through a server side include when >>applicable, through some regular automatic update of your own pages, etc) >>- if you want to manage RDF directly, you can also invoke a script that >>would return the relevant RDF information (in an XML encoding) (B.t.w., the >>full RDF data is also public). > > > I believe the second and the third options are quite useful, and we > should be able to employ them at a stable location, such as > w3.xmlhack.ru. > > >>There is a more detailed description of the techniques used, as well as the >>right URI-s to invoke the various scripts or to get access to the RDF >>files, in: >>http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/Overview.html. > > >>Comments, ideas, feedbacks, etc, are welcome > > I have a number of typographical corrections for Russian entries, I'm > gonna send them later. > > Alex. -- Ivan Herman W3C 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/all?pictures=yes#ivan
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