Title: DDC Translations: An Overview
1DDC Translations An Overview
- Joan S. Mitchell
- Julianne Beall
- EPC Meeting 126
- October 11-13, 2006
- Washington, DC
2Outline
- Current translation activities
- Localization and interoperability
- Translation roles and policies
- Case study Vietnamese translation
- Discussion How can we work more closely with
translation teams?
3Current Translation Activities
- DDC 22
- Arabic, Chinese, French, German (2005), Italian,
Spanish - Abridged Edition 14
- French (2005), Hebrew, Italian (2006), Spanish,
Vietnamese (2006) - DDC Principles and Application
- Arabic, French, German (2006), Italian, Spanish
- Other
- French Guide de la Classification décimale de
Dewey - Greek DDC 22 Relative Index
- Norwegian Updated captions
- Swedish Mixed Swedish/English translation
4Localization
- Coverage and representation of topics matches
the literary warrant needs in the language group
5Interoperability
- Translation contains categories that
are compatible with the English-language standard
edition and other translations to foster the use
of Dewey as a multilingual switching language
6 Localization and Interoperability
- Examples
- Terminology in captions/notes
- Index terms
- Built numbers
- Options
- Authorized expansions
7Consistency in Standard Terminology
- Consistent translation of kinds of notes, e.g.,
Class here . . ., Including . . ., See also . . . - Consistent translation of recurring concepts,
e.g., - Table 101 Philosophy and theory
- 401 Philosophy and theory
- 401 Filosofi och teori
8Consistency in Meaning of Categories
- English-language edition
- South China Sea (in note at T2164 in A14)
- Vietnamese-language edition
- East Sea (in note at T2164 in A14)
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9Area Expansion in German DDC 22
- 43551 Regierungsbezirk Köln
- 435511 Aachen
- 435512 Kreise Aachen, Heinsberg, Düren,
Euskirchen - 4355122 Kreis Aachen
- 4355124 Kreis Heinsberg
- 4355126 Kreis Düren
- 4355128 Kreis Euskirchen
- 435513 Erftkreis
- 435514 Köln
- 435515 Leverkusen
- 435516 Rheinisch-Bergischer-Kreis,
Oberbergischer Kreis - 4355163 Rheinisch-Bergischer-Kreis
- 4355167 Oberbergischer Kreis
- 435518 Bonn
- 435519 Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
10Translation Participants
- Sponsor national library, bibliography, or
association (or other authoritative
representative of language group) - Editorial/translation team
- Advisory group
- OCLC
- Dewey editorial team
11Translation Roles Sponsor
- Responsible for funding, organization, quality,
publication, ongoing updating, and training
12Translation Roles Editorial Team (1)
- Understanding of DDC and English
- Development of policy statement in consultation
with sponsor, advisory group, and OCLC - Translation (may be separate team)
- Consultation with Dewey editorial team (may
include one-week working visit to LC Dewey
Editorial Office additional classification
training in LC Decimal Classification Division)
13Translation Roles Editorial Team (2)
- Review of translation
- Review by advisory group
- Review by Dewey editors
- Final editing
- Submission to sponsor for publication
- Review of proofs/files
14Translation Roles Advisory Group
- Represents the users
- Review of policy statement
- Review of translation
15Case study Vietnamese translation
- Funded by Atlantic Philanthropies
- Strategy for development of national
bibliographic standards in Vietnam DDC, MARC21,
AACR - Seminar on national systems and standards,
September 2001 - Seminar on translation of DDC, September 2002
16Project Management
- RMIT Vietnam project management
- National Library of Vietnam
- NLV editorial and translation team
- DDC Project Advisory Board
- Library of Congress training and technical
support - OCLC translation and publication approval
17Overview
- Project funding and beginning, 2003
- Publication of Vietnamese DDC 14th, 2006
- Distribution of 2000 copies to Vietnamese
libraries ongoing - Training program to promote adoption of DDC
nationally under development
18Expansions for Vietnamese DDC 14 (1)
- Geography of Vietnam
- T2597 expanded for 7 official geographical
regions and 64 administrative cities and
provincesbeyond DDC 22 - Ethnic groups in Vietnam
- 305.89 revised and expanded to provide for 54
ethnic groups of Vietnam
19Expansions for Vietnamese DDC 14 (2)
- Vietnamese political parties
- 324.2597 expanded beyond DDC 22 for Vietnamese
political parties - Marxism-Leninism and related topics
- 320.53 for political ideology
- 335.4 for economic system and interdisciplinary
works - 335.4346 for Vietnamese Communism and Ho Chi
Minhs ideas
20Expansions for Vietnamese DDC 14 (2)
- Languages of Vietnam
- 495.9 expanded up to (and in a few cases beyond)
- DDC 22 for languages spoken in Vietnam
- Literatures of Vietnam
- 895.9 corresponding expansions for literatures of
Vietnam - Literary periods for Vietnamese literature
21Expansions for Vietnamese DDC 14 (3)
- History of Vietnam
- 959.701 959.704 expanded to and in many cases
beyond DDC 22
22Example from Expansion for Table 2 Areas
- Vietnamese DDC 14
- T259731 Thành ph? Hà N?i
- Versions Other than the Vietnamese DDC 14
- T25973 Red River Delta region In DDC
22 after April 2006 update - T2597 Vietnam In Abridged DDC 14
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24Editorial Software (1)
- Vietnamese team started using Microsoft Word
- Later obtained international version of Pansoft
editorial software developed for the German
translation - Translation team copied and pasted from Word
25Editorial Software (2)
- Pansoft software designed to use XML format
distributed by OCLC and return translation
database in same format - Translators need not worry about format
- Unless working on an expansion
- Pansoft print formatter currently limited to
tables, schedules, Relative Index - Vietnamese Manual was done using Word
26Database Format T259731 (1)
- lttengt
- ltlnk refC"ddcT2" refR"ddcT2--59731" tbl"2"
span1"59731"gt - lttxtgtT259731lt/txtgt
- lt/lnkgt
- lt/tengt
- ltehgt
- lttxtgtThành ph? Hà N?ilt/txtgt
- lt/ehgt
- lt/TableDescriptiongt
27Database Format T259731 (2)
- ltTableNotesgt
- ltningt
- lttxtgtBao g?m c? h? Hoàn Ki?m, h? Tâylt/txtgt
- lt/ningt
- lt/TableNotesgt
28Database Format T259731 (3)
- ltTableTerminologygt
- ltRIgt
- ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
- lttxtgtH? Hoàn Ki?mlt/txtgt
- lt/RIgt
- ltRIgt
- ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
- lttxtgtH? Tâylt/txtgt
- lt/RIgt
29Database Format T259731 (4)
- ltRIgt
- ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
- lttxtgtHà N?ilt/txtgt
- lt/RIgt
- ltRIgt
- ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
- lttxtgtThành ph? Hà N?ilt/txtgt
- lt/RIgt
- lt/TableTerminologygt
30Vietnamese Relative Index
- Sort order problems solved by Pansoft software
- Diacritics alter sort order
- Linguistic problems described by the editor,
e.g. - Clarifying ambiguous terms from Vietnamese
dictionaries - Ð?ng v?t có v? c?ng Shellfish (594) and
Crustaceans (595.3) Ð?ng v?t nhuy?n th? có v?
c?ng and Ð?ng v?t có v? c?ng
31How can we work together?
- Representation on EPC-L
- Input on EPC exhibits
- Proposals for updates, changes, expansions,
terminology - 340 Working Group
- Built numbers, mappings, expansions
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