DDC Translations: An Overview

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DDC Translations An Overview

• Joan S. Mitchell
• Julianne Beall
• EPC Meeting 126
• October 11-13, 2006
• Washington, DC

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Outline

• Current translation activities
• Localization and interoperability
• Translation roles and policies
• Case study Vietnamese translation
• Discussion How can we work more closely with
  translation teams?

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Current 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

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Localization

• Coverage and representation of topics matches
  the literary warrant needs in the language group

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Interoperability

• 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

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Localization and Interoperability

• Examples
• Terminology in captions/notes
• Index terms
• Built numbers
• Options
• Authorized expansions

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Consistency 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

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Consistency 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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Area 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

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Translation Participants

• Sponsor national library, bibliography, or
  association (or other authoritative
  representative of language group)
• Editorial/translation team
• Advisory group
• OCLC
• Dewey editorial team

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Translation Roles Sponsor

• Responsible for funding, organization, quality,
  publication, ongoing updating, and training

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Translation 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)

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Translation 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

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Translation Roles Advisory Group

• Represents the users
• Review of policy statement
• Review of translation

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Case 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

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Project 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

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Overview

• 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

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Expansions 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

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Expansions 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

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Expansions 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

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Expansions for Vietnamese DDC 14 (3)

• History of Vietnam
• 959.701 959.704 expanded to and in many cases
  beyond DDC 22

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Example 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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Editorial 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

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Editorial 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

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Database 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

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Database Format T259731 (2)

• ltTableNotesgt
• ltningt
•   lttxtgtBao g?m c? h? Hoàn Ki?m, h? Tâylt/txtgt
•   lt/ningt
•   lt/TableNotesgt

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Database Format T259731 (3)

• ltTableTerminologygt
• ltRIgt
•   ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
•   lttxtgtH? Hoàn Ki?mlt/txtgt
•   lt/RIgt
• ltRIgt
•   ltusagegtPElt/usagegt
•   lttxtgtH? Tâylt/txtgt
•   lt/RIgt

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Database 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

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Vietnamese 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

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How 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