Dear all, this is a report on the progress of the TEI2German Translatathon: the translations of the intersection of TEI simplePrint and TEI lite are now - with the help of the colleagues from Graz - completed, and the translations are implemented into the Specs. Now, the question is how to proceed? At the F2F in Prague we talked about adding a button to the specs, which provides translations from Google translator. For this, we have to evaluate if the Google translator provides useful translations in various languages: For German, it does (see report at the end). May I ask you to have a look at the Google Spreadsheet containing 10 element specifications in different languages (see tabs) to test if Google Translator would be usable for an initial step in the translation process? I would ask you to add your comments wherever possible. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iVPMNGXj7p_XUAHW34LJsr6_owVSAq8bdDWY... For the German translations: In the last Translatathon session we used Google translator for the specific example descriptions and we progressed very quickly. I think the descriptions are pretty good, most of them are comprehensible, although sometimes I would have picked another wording. The glosses are good as well, but sometimes too abbreviated. Most of the remarks are pretty good for a machine translation. Problems arise where technical TEI vocabulary (TEI-Header) is also translated, and complex German sentence structures are not always resolved correctly (especially when the remarks contain encoding). Overall, we found that using Google translator certainly cuts down time needed for translations significantly. Best, Martina Mag. Martina Scholger Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel: +43 316 380 2291 eMail: martina.scholger@uni-graz.atmailto:martina.semlak@uni-graz.at Web: http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.athttp://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/ | http://gams.uni-graz.athttp://gams.uni-graz.at/