On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Ambrose Li wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 03:24:44AM +0530, Saiful Amin wrote:
I don't know what is m18n. The term 'multilingual documents' might have been ambiguous. I meant cataloguing and search of documents in more than one language. The library for which I worked for 5 years (I'm studying on deputation) had collection in three languages -- English, Bengali, and Hindi. I was interested in how to catalague and give an integrated search interface to the entire collection.
"m17n" (not "m18n") means "multilingualization" (17 letters between "m" and "n"). (There is also "i18n", which means "internationalization", and "l10n", which means "localization". Translating Koha into Indian languages would be "l10n", not "m17n".)
thanks for the gentle correction. I normally mix the two pretty badly.
The library I work with is also in such a situation; we have books in Chinese and English, plus a few French books. And a lot of books are in both Chinese and English (Chinese and English titles and/or content).
I thought New Zealand also have multilingual collections; how is Koha handling such collections in New Zealand?
I think that this is one of the areas where Koha can begin to shine. It will take some work to get there though. Are there any m17n/i18n/l10n gurus out there who want to start thinking about what we need to do to get there? On a related topic, there are a number of porjects that I think would have wide appeal to libraries. Does anyone have any ideas how we can make co-sponsoring projects more attractive to libraries? One thought that I had was to scope the projects and lay out a series of milestones. Libraries could then contribute to a 'bounty' for hitting those milestones. A method for distributing the money correctly is not entirely clear though. Thoughts? thanks, -pate
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