Re: ontology localization (into spanish)

Dear Chaals,

Of course, before one starts either the translation of the ontology 
labels or ontology comments, one needs to "understand" the ontology, 
which in practical terms means, to thoroughly read the ontology 
specification in order to understand what the classes and properties of 
the ontology mean.

Fortunately, in the case of the ORG ontology, classes and properties 
have been well documented (which is not the case in every ontology) and 
comments and usage notes are of a great help in order to understand the 
labels. So, in case they exist, it may be a nice recommendation to 
translate them first, I agree.

Cheers!
Elena

El 18/02/2014 18:19, Charles McCathie Nevile escribió:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:03:35 +0100, Guadalupe Aguado <lupe@fi.upm.es> 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Phil
>>
>> Thank you for your suggestions. Aren't there any "draft" guidelines 
>> that other people have used when translating the onto into the other 
>> languages? Just to make sure that we should start with labels, for 
>> instance, and leave specs for lthe last part? Any guidance would help.
>
> My own thinking is to start with descriptions and usage information, 
> so when you come to do the labels you have a clear idea of what they 
> "mean", not what the english (or french or whatever) says, because 
> translating a single word is never as good as translating a sentence 
> and knowing the context.
>
> In other words, if you translate the longest / most verbose component 
> first you will probably do a better job when you try to translate the 
> short labels than if you do it the other way around.
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Guadalupe
>>
>>
>> El 18/02/2014 16:57, Phil Archer escribió:
>>> Thanks Elena,
>>>
>>> Yes, labels, comments and usage notes in the schema would be very 
>>> welcome. It's an issue I hope to raise at the workshop next month - 
>>> what's the most important thing to translate? The schema or the spec 
>>> document? If they're both full in line then copying text from one to 
>>> the other is easy, but which do people look at more?
>>>
>>> In theory:
>>>
>>> The spec includes all labels
>>> The definitions in the spec = rdfs:comment in the schema
>>> usage notes in the spec = usage notes in the schema
>>>
>>> But although ORG provides usage notes, other specs might use 
>>> dcterms:description or skos:definition - we really ought to have 
>>> some best practice guidance on this!
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>>
>>> On 18/02/2014 14:21, Elena Montiel Ponsoda wrote:
>>>> Dear Phil,
>>>>
>>>> I have had a look at some of the e-mails in the w3c-translators 
>>>> mailing
>>>> list and also at what you wrote in [3].
>>>> Would you suggest that we translate the content of rdfs:label and
>>>> rdfs:comment descriptions in the schema.
>>>> As I can see, this is what has also been translated for other 
>>>> languages,
>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again!
>>>> Elena.
>>>>
>>>> El 18/02/2014 13:42, Phil Archer escribió:
>>>>> Thanks very much Elena, this is very welcome news.
>>>>>
>>>>> In replying to you, I'm including the w3c-translators mailing list 
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> which is where we record intentions to translate. For example, I'm
>>>>> pleased to see that work is under way to translate it into PT-BR too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please be aware that as well as the specification document there is
>>>>> also the schema [2]. In theory everything is aligned so that the text
>>>>> is the same. In practice, this isn't always quite true :-( [3]
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-translators/
>>>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/ns/org
>>>>> [3]
>>>>> http://www.w3.org/blog/data/2014/02/15/more-languages-for-more-vocabularies/ 
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18/02/2014 11:22, Elena Montiel Ponsoda wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Phil,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my name is Elena Montiel and together with Guadalupe Aguado I 
>>>>>> will be in
>>>>>> charge of the translation of the ORG ontology into Spanish.
>>>>>> We both have a backgroung on Translation and have been working on
>>>>>> Computational LInguistics (Ontology Localization among other 
>>>>>> topics) as
>>>>>> members of the Ontology Engineering Group leaded by Asun for many 
>>>>>> years
>>>>>> now.
>>>>>> We will keep you updated of our progress!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Elena
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> El 17/02/2014 21:37, Asunción Gómez Pérez escribió:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Phil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I will contact Martin just to know if some one is localizing ORG.
>>>>>>>  Our experience recommends to introduce localization once the 
>>>>>>> model is
>>>>>>> created.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, please set up a doodle for next week.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KInd regards
>>>>>>> Asun
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> El 17/02/2014 9:33, Phil Archer escribió:
>>>>>>>> Morning all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not aware of anyone else working actively on localising ORG 
>>>>>>>> but I
>>>>>>>> don't know everything ;-) In other words, there may be, but I'm 
>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>> aware of it. Are you in touch with Martin Alvarez? He's the most
>>>>>>>> likely to have done something on this but I'm not sure.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As for localising all our vocabs - yes, let's have a call about 
>>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>>> I'd like to include my colleagues Sandro Hawke and Ivan Herman in
>>>>>>>> that conversation. Shall I set up a Doodle poll for a call next 
>>>>>>>> week?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My questions, that I hope to find answers for in Athens, are: how
>>>>>>>> useful is this effort? What do we need to do to maximise the
>>>>>>>> usefulness? How can we introduce localisation earlier in the 
>>>>>>>> process
>>>>>>>> to avoid ambiguities that only become apparent when someone 
>>>>>>>> tries to
>>>>>>>> translate terms.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Phil.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 16/02/2014 22:21, Asunción Gómez Pérez wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> DEar Phil
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> thanks for the title of the talk and for the link to the post :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As you know, Elena Montiel <emontiel@fi.upm.es> and Guadalupe 
>>>>>>>>> Aguado
>>>>>>>>> <lupe@fi.upm.es> are working on ontology localization for a long
>>>>>>>>> time in
>>>>>>>>> our group.
>>>>>>>>> They participate on the Ontolex group and they have already 
>>>>>>>>> localized
>>>>>>>>> some ontologies for IFLA and W3C.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Last week we started to reuse the ORG ontology and we discovered
>>>>>>>>> that it
>>>>>>>>> is not in Spanish. In the following days they are starting the 
>>>>>>>>> *ORG
>>>>>>>>> localization process in spanish*. Could you please confirm that
>>>>>>>>> nobody
>>>>>>>>> is doing that translation?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   I would like to talk with you about*localizing all W3C 
>>>>>>>>> ontologies
>>>>>>>>> into
>>>>>>>>> Spanish by the Ontology Engineering Group. *
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>>>> ASun
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> El 16/02/2014 21:27, Phil Archer escribió:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Asun,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm sorry to have been so slow in thinking about this. I'd 
>>>>>>>>>> like to
>>>>>>>>>> talk about the efforts we've made recently to make some of our
>>>>>>>>>> vocabularies available with multilingual labels. I blogged about
>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>> yesterday (http://www.w3.org/blog/data/) and can say more in 
>>>>>>>>>> Athens.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've posted a place holder for my slides at
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0321_phila_ld4lt/ from which 
>>>>>>>>>> you'll see
>>>>>>>>>> I've suggested a title of Demanding Multilingual Schemata which
>>>>>>>>>> may or
>>>>>>>>>> may not make the double meaning of 'demanding' obvious.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'll communicate separately over the logistics.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Phil.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 14/02/2014 10:48, Asunción Gómez Pérez wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> DEar Nicoletta, Hans, Phill
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We are on the process of finishing the agenda for the LInked
>>>>>>>>>>> Data for
>>>>>>>>>>> Language technologies Roadmapping WS.
>>>>>>>>>>> I would appreciate if you could send to me title of your
>>>>>>>>>>> presentation
>>>>>>>>>>> in order to update the website.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>>>>>> Asun
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> El 09/02/2014 10:24, Asunción Gómez Pérez escribió:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> DEar Nicoletta, Hans, Phil
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for supporting the LD4TLT Group Kick-Off and Roadmap
>>>>>>>>>>>> meeting on
>>>>>>>>>>>> linked data and content analytics in Athens with your invited
>>>>>>>>>>>> talk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> We are in the process of generating the agenda and I would
>>>>>>>>>>>> appreciate
>>>>>>>>>>>> if you could *send me the following information about your 
>>>>>>>>>>>> talk*:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>   * title of your presentation
>>>>>>>>>>>>   * Afiliation
>>>>>>>>>>>>   * Web page
>>>>>>>>>>>>   * A paragraph describing the presentation itself.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> As I mentioned in the previous mail, the goal of this workshop
>>>>>>>>>>>> is to
>>>>>>>>>>>> gather use cases and requirements as a basis to develop a
>>>>>>>>>>>> European R&D
>>>>>>>>>>>> roadmap and agenda for content analytics solutions based on 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Linked
>>>>>>>>>>>> Data.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>>>>>>> Asun
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2014/01/14/linked-data-for-language-technology-ld4lt-group-kick-off-meeting-and-roadmap-meeting-21-march-athens-greece/ 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [2]http://lider-project.eu/
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- Prof. Asunción Gómez-Pérez
>>>>>>>>>>>> Catedrática de Universidad
>>>>>>>>>>>> Director of the Ontology Engineering Group
>>>>>>>>>>>> Facultad de Informática owl:sameAs Escuela Técnica Superior de
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ingenieros Informáticos
>>>>>>>>>>>> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
>>>>>>>>>>>> Campus de Montegancedo, sn
>>>>>>>>>>>> Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Spain
>>>>>>>>>>>> Home page:www.oeg-upm.net
>>>>>>>>>>>> Email:asun@fi.upm.es
>>>>>>>>>>>> Phone: (34-91) 336-7417
>>>>>>>>>>>> Fax: (34-91) 352-4819
>>>>>>>>>>>
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-- 
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos
Campus de Montegancedo s/n
Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, España
www.oeg-upm.net
Tel. (+34) 91 336 36 70
Fax  (+34) 91 352 48 19

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