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Terminology Across Borders : A Partnership to Build a Bilingual Tool for the Americas

Terminology Across Borders : A Partnership to Build a Bilingual Tool for the Americas. Lori J. Finch, Thesaurus Coordinator National Agricultural Library, ARS, USDA at USAIN, Purdue University May 11, 2010. Tesauro Agrícola. Spanish/English version of

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Terminology Across Borders : A Partnership to Build a Bilingual Tool for the Americas

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  1. Terminology Across Borders:A Partnership to Build a Bilingual Tool for the Americas Lori J. Finch, Thesaurus Coordinator National Agricultural Library, ARS, USDA at USAIN, Purdue University May 11, 2010

  2. Tesauro Agrícola • Spanish/English version of NAL Agricultural Thesaurus • Collaboration between: • Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture • Orton Memorial Library, Turrialba, CR • National Agricultural Library, U.S. Dept of Agriculture

  3. Why create a thesaurus? • IICA libraries used local terminology in order to enhance access • A multilingual thesaurus that satisfied Latin American terminology and was regularly maintained did not exist

  4. Spanish Language Statistics • Second most widely used language in the world, 328 million (Ethnologue, 2009) • Second most widely spoken language in the U.S. (U.S. Census, 2000; Modern Language Association, 2005) • Most rapidly growing language in U.S. agricultural sector (USDA, NASS, Census of Agriculture, 2007) • Third most widely used language for Internet searching (Internet World Stats, Dec 31, 2009)

  5. Background • First Edition May 2007 • Online onlyhttp://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt_es.shtml • 73,600 total terms • 35% lead-in, 65% preferred • Separate English andSpanish interfaces • Original translators in Chile, with support from AgNIC and ADEC (American Distance Education Consortium) • Annually updated in January with English version

  6. Objectives Bilingual controlled vocabulary in agriculture that: • encompasses Latin American Spanish • provides definitions of technical terms in both Spanish and English • includes agriculturally and economically important crops, products, practices, pests, diseases, etc. of the Americas

  7. Challenges 13 dialects of Spanish in Latin America… avocado rambutan mamón chino aguacate achotillo rambután palta Ager, S. n.d. Latin American Spanish or Spanish for Latin America. Omniglot.

  8. Expand Participation • 10th Annual SIDALC meeting Sept 2009 at Turrialba, CR, briefed IICA members on project and called for participation. • Paper written for IICA to explain the need for a Spanish thesaurus (2009) http://webiica.iica.ac.cr/bibliotecas/RepIICA/B1621i/B1621i.pdf

  9. Expand Participation : Workshop Workshop to be held May 26-27, 2010, at Orton Memorial Library, CR • To establish working relationship with partners from Chile, Peru and Mexico • To engage scientists from CATIE • To train partners on thesaurus maintenance • To motivate partners to contribute local terminology to Tesauro Agrícola

  10. Collaborative tool: WIKI

  11. Features of Google Sites replaced for 2011 • Text and Tables word processing easier • Google search • Ease of navigation taxonomy creation • Design templates for fast upstart • Spanish interface

  12. Members Section A place on the WIKI to share contact information, post a picture, and tell others about your work and role in the project.

  13. WIKI Sections • Reference Section – links or documents uploaded • Proposals – each member has place to “push” work to NAL and place for NAL tracking the status of proposals • Translations – space for listing terms, definitions needing translation • Review of terms

  14. Review Section: “Pushing” forward parts of the thesaurus which need review

  15. Questions Lori.Finch@ars.usda.gov Tesauro Agrícola… ….collaboratively building a terminology tool for the Americas

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