[open-government] [open-data-manual] Pirate Party Luxembourg's derivative open data manual - Raises Q about cultural specifics

[Tim McNamara]

On 26 July 2011 20:45, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 2011/7/26 Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>:
>> FYI https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JV12msm-6DDDYlfYS-ac_JHCy-dJQ--yAOlJIdWe3E/edit?hl=en_US
>
> What has this been based off? I would suggest contacting them if they
> are not aware of the more update version and the new approach using
> text files.

Contacted them today via Twitter. Invited them to join this list.
FWIW, they know about the manual and refer to it in the excerpt I
quoted. Their intent is basically writing a CC0 open data manual from
scratch for a German-speaking audience.

>> From the first page, it looks very clear that the idea of the work is
>> to make something specific for the German-speaking world. Sven uses
>> the world "fehlen", which tends to imply that we're not being
>> culturally specific enough.
>
> You saw Daniel Dietrich's mail last week about a German translation
> under way of the ODM right?
>

Of course.

The gist of the quote below is that they want to take the spirit of
the manual and mould it towards Germanic culture.

>> "Die Struktur, genau wie die Idee zum Buch sind entstanden aus
>> http://opendatamanual.org/ und der Erkenntnis, dass ein solches
>> Projekt bisher im deutschen Raum fehlt. Ziel ist nicht eine 1-zu-1
>> Übersetzung zu produzieren, sondern ein eigenständiges Werk, das als
>> Grundlage das open data manual nutzt, jedoch deutlich darüber hinaus
>> geht."
>>
>> Does anyone know ways in which the manual could be more localised?
>
> Rather than discuss this general question I propose we just sort out
> as soon as possible our specific process for doing i18n / localization
> and document it on wiki.okfn.org/Open_Data_Manual.
>