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

Mon Mar 5 13:22:27 UTC 2012

Hi all

On 05.03.2012, at 13:19, Laura Newman wrote:

> 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.

My point of view is we should keep the core skeleton of the Handbook as simple and universal as possible. I think country specific information should be handled as "modules" that could be translated back into english if people think this is useful on a case by case basis. 

What do others think?

Daniel

> 
> 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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> Laura Newman
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> Open Knowledge Foundation
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