TAUS Collaborative Translation Roundtable
10 OCTOBER 2011 / SANTA CLARA (CA), USA

Background

Collaborative translation presents us with a rich and complex envelope of processes and technologies, whose respective impacts are still poorly understood. Determining which approach can be used in which context and to what effect is still somewhat of an art-form, and currently, trial and error is often the only way to find out.

See Wanted: Best Practices in Collaborative Translation for a comprehensive overview of the scope and issues this TAUS Roundtable will cover.

Objectives

This collaborative event will bring together ‘seasoned’ practitioners and potential users of collaborative translation of all flavours, in order to create a knowledge base of best practices, in the form of a series of interlinked design patterns.

Design patterns are a formal, compact way of documenting solutions to recurring problems in a particular field of expertise, and they have been used in a variety of domains like architecture, computer programming (ex: hillside.net), user interface design (ex: ui-patterns.com), educational curriculum design and deployment of wiki systems (ex: wikipatterns.org). For more details on this concept, see the  Approach section.

What to bring

Ideally, each participant should have a laptop with wireless connectivity, so that he or she can contribute patterns and notes to the workshop’s wiki site. However, this is not a strict requirement as participants will work in pairs, and only one laptop per pair will be needed.