At least the term base should be translated. John Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have been in discussion with the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam about making > their material available on Commons. The Tropenmuseum has an important > collection on the colonial past of the Netherlands and contains a rich > collection on Suriname and Indonesia. The initial talks are about 100.000 > images. > > The annotations of this material is all in Dutch. It will come with unique > identifiers back to the physical object in the Tropenmuseum and it will come > with the termbase for the images; this termbase is as I understand it the > equivalent of our categories. Some of the material has a partial translation > in English and, this can be provided to us as well. > > The key issue I want to raise is that there are hundreds of museums in the > Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname all using Dutch there are more museums in > Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein who speak German .... While we > aim to improve our front end to allow for easy uploads, we do not provide > language support. Language support will help people find pictures in their > language and will help the matching of categories into other languages. > Thanks, > GerardM > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
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