[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] cost of adding a language (OPAC)

[smurfett at gmail.com]

I'm more than happy to do some translation but I didn't realize that it's 
this many words?!  I asked about this a month or so back.  Are the 7000 
words all the words that are used in the software itself?

nancy

On 1/4/12 6:59 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:01:53PM -0800, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>> Does anyone have any wild ideas about what it might cost to fund the
>> translation of Evergreen into another challenge (OPAC only).  I'm wondering
>> about Chinese.  Any ideas at all?
>>
>> Is it in the range of $20,000-$50,000?
>> $50,000-$100,000?
>>
>> More?
> If you're talking about just the strings that you would find in the
> JSPAC such as opac.dtd, opac.js, searcher.js, and db.seed (as found in
> https://translations.launchpad.net/evergreen/master/+lang/zh_CN), then
> you're looking at 7,000 words or so. (At 4,500 words, db.seed contains
> way more than just the words needed for the OPAC, so you could try to be
> selective about what gets translated, but let's go with the top limit
> for the purposes of this exercise.)
>
> Let's also assume that you're going with a translation service instead
> of friendly volunteers filling in the translation on Launchpad. Take a
> raw estimate of $0.25/word from a place like
> http://blog.globalizationpartners.com/software-translation-services.aspx
> (that post mentions $0.20/word, but we'll inflate a bit; $0.25 / word
> was the rate that was being fetched by fairly specialized translators
> years ago) and you're at $1,750 for raw translation.
>
> > From there, you might also want to include some testing and QA of the
> translation, some project management fees, and likely some customization
> of the interface to accomodate longer/different strings.
>
> Don't forget that at some point, the translation eventually needs to get
> rolled into an Evergreen release, although the person who currently does
> that manual process is untrustworthy [1].
>
> 1. http://markmail.org/message/tq6cuswsakxtyvsc
>