On 16/04/12 20:59, Ian Stuart wrote:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italian-university-switches-to-english-7643884.html
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> What does this mean for multi-lingual repositories?
>
> EDINA's Organisation and Repository Identification tool shows they they
> have an archive: "Open Archive for Conferences held by the Department of
> Mathematics - Politecnico di Milano"... in English & Italian.
>
> Will it become exclusively English?
> Is this anglicisation going to become more common?
In former colonies, language revitalisation is moving us away from
exclusive English repositories. Initially these moves are relatively
trivial (bi-lingual unit names, actively encouraging users to give
non-ASCII renderings of the names, etc), but inching towards full support.
Of course, there are an effectively infinite variety of languages to
support in a post-colonial world, which is makes translating interfaces
hard/costly.
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
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