Earl,
I am lucky to have a wonderfully diverse group of people working in my unit and we do most of our translation within the section. All of our RM documents are available in both English and Spanish. We have occasionally called on professional translators and have found that they often just don't know the RM terminology/jargon well enough to do a better job than we can do in-house. And echoing other comments, I would never use any of the translation programs without the closest of scrutiny. And if you know enough of the other language to be able to catch the software's mistakes, you can probably just do it yourself.
Good luck,
Tom
J. Thomas Converse, CA, CRM
Chief, Records Management Section
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York AV., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20577
(202) 623-3010
(202) 312-4051 (fax)
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Good (Late) Afternoon ListServe,
My client has offices in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and The Netherlands where, in
addition to their US locations, we publish records management policies,
procedures, standards, guidelines, instructions, etc. For those of you who
work for international companies, how do you handle translating your RM
documents into the various languages of the countries in which you operate?
We're looking at a number of options including hiring a translation service
or using translation software (we'd be concerned about accuracy). All of
our documentation is created here in Miami Lakes in English, and must be
translated into "Puerto Rican" Spanish, "Mexican" Spanish--which, (and I
must confess my ignorance here) I didn't know was different than Puerto
Rican Spanish, and The Netherlands' Dutch language. We're also looking at
what other departments and functions here are doing for documents they
share with these other foreign offices.
Any and all comments are welcome.
Thanks.
Earl
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