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

Tue Jul 26 11:37:16 UTC 2011

I have contacted them today and we are looking fwd to cooperate on this.

Daniel

On 26.07.2011, at 11:50, Tim McNamara wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 
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