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translator

vr.tr.translator · SOC.PER

Let an agent explain the translator profession and its specialisations, relay qualifications, certification and working practice from professional sources, describe historical roles, and distinguish translators from interpreters and machine translation.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the translator profession and its specialisations, relay qualifications, certification and working practice from professional sources, describe historical roles, and distinguish translators from interpreters and machine translation.

A person who renders written text from one language into another, as distinct from an interpreter who works with speech, in roles such as literary, technical, legal and medical translators, authorised or sworn translators certified for official documents, dubbing and subtitling translators for audiovisual media, fan translators of video games and other media, and historical figures such as the dragoman of the Ottoman world and the lotsawa translators of Buddhist texts into Tibetan; translators are classified by source and target language and work with dictionaries, terminology and translation technology.

What it is for: Rendering written texts between languages.

It can be explain the profession; relay qualifications and certification; describe specialisations and history; distinguish from interpreters.

Distinguishing features

Written medium

Language pair specialisation

Domain expertise

Certification for official use

What it looks like

Not a visible object; a language professional working with texts.

Physical character

ISCO-08 unit group: 2643 number - translators, interpreters and other linguists

How it is recognised

Person who translates written text

Literary, technical, legal, authorised, dubbing and fan translators; dragomans and lotsawas

Interpreters work orally; localisers adapt products; machine translation is software

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

language specialist

is a kind of - in registry terms

translator-interpreter

is a kind of - in registry terms, of the translated text

author

is contrasted with - who works with speech

interpreter

In practice

Families and kinds

literary translators

technical, scientific, legal and medical translators

authorised, sworn or certified translators

audiovisual translators for dubbing and subtitling

fan translators of video games and media

translators by source and target language

historical translators such as dragomans and lotsawas

Identifiers

ISCO-08 2643 translators, interpreters and other linguists

Standards and regulation

ISO 17100 translation services

National sworn translator laws and certification

Copyright law on translations

Professional association codes

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing translators with interpreters

Unqualified translation of official documents

Stale information on certification rules by country

Also called

authorised translatordragomanvideo game fan translatortranslator by source and target languagedubbing translatorlotsawasubtitlerBible translatorcertified translatorIliad's translatorOdyssey's translatorcued speech transliteratortechnical translatorliterary translatorDragoman of the Fleettranslator of William Shakespearetranslator of Adam Mickiewicztranslator of William Wordsworth

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.translator

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a translator is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a translator, and how does the role differ from interpreter, localiser and machine translation? definition
  2. Is the question about translators in general, a specialisation or a historical role? boundary

Specialisations

Specialisations.

Specialisations

Specialisations.

  1. What are literary, technical, legal, authorised, dubbing and fan translators? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific specialisation? action
Profession Profession.

Regulation.

Qualifications

Qualifications and certification.

Qualifications

Qualifications.

  1. How do translators train, and how do sworn or authorised translator systems work by country? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about certifying a specific document, which needs the relevant authority? boundary

Practice

Working practice.

Practice

Practice.

  1. How do translators work with terminology, CAT tools and machine translation post-editing? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Theory Theory and quality.

Attribution.

Theory

Translation theory.

Theory

Theory.

  1. What do translation studies say about fidelity, equivalence and the translator voice, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Rights

Rights and recognition.

Rights

Rights.

  1. How are translators credited and protected by copyright? provenance
  2. Which entry fits translation copyright? action
Context History.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. What roles did dragomans, lotsawas and other historical translators play? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of translation? action

Future

Technology.

Future

Future.

  1. How is machine translation changing the profession, with research attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits machine translation? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should sworn translator and dragoman be separate entries?
  • How should professional body sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specialisations and historical roles; should they be split off?