[open-data-handbook] Open Data Handbook translation finished!

Mon Mar 5 12:19:56 UTC 2012

Fantastic news! Many, many thanks Augusto and team!!

It may take us a little while to get the translation uploaded onto the
wesbite, so do feel free to edit/review in the meantime. But it's fantastic
to have our first translation complete, and we will make sure it goes live
as soon as possible.

You also make a good point about the changing law in Brazil. We will
certainly include that in the next iteration of the Handbook (hopefully
coming relatively soon). It also raises the more general question of how
(or if) we try to integrate country specific information into the Handbook.
Any thoughts on that are most welcome.

In the meantime, thanks once again and congratulations! We are also nearly
there with the Spanish, Italian and French translations - keep up the great
work everyone!!

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Augusto Herrmann <
augusto.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we just finished the translation of the Open Data Handbook to
> Brazilian Portuguese! I still think the translation should be reviewed
> independently by other members of the translator team but, if you'd
> like to deploy it to the website, so visitors can already have a
> working translation to read, it should be ready enough for that.
>
> By the way, I noticed an innacuracy in the following paragraph:
>
> "Although no access to information law gives a right of access to
> information in open formats, (...)
>
> Which is no longer true. The Brazilian Acces to Information Law,
> enacted in November 2011 (but which will come in effect May 2012),
> does have a provision on machine readable and open formats. So,
> perhaps there should be an errata to version 1.0 of the Handbook?
>
> Best regards,
> Augusto Herrmann
> Open Data Team
> Ministry of Planning - Brazil
>

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