ADHO Standing Committee on Multi-Lingualism & Multi-Culturalism (SCM)
Report on activities and matters arising
June 2008 - June 2009
Elisabeth Burr
Standing Committee on Multi-lingualism & Multi-culturalism
1) Meeting of the ADHO Steering Committee
At the meeting of the ADHO Steering Committee Mon 23 June & Wed 25 June 2008 at the University of Oulu, Finland it was decided that the Standing Committee on Multi-Lingualism & Multi-Culturalism (SCM) would be composed as follows:
- Elisabeth Burr (chair)
- Espen Ore (ALLC representative)
- Natasha Smith (ACH)
- Stefan Sinclair (SDH-SEMI)
- Jan Christoph Meister, ex-officio member, internationalization editor of DH
2) Meeting of the Standing Committee
At the meeting of the Standing Committee on 27.06.2008 we identified a three-tier plan of action for our committee:
Phase 1: Concrete actions towards multilingualism, including
- a mechanism and policy for the translation of the TOCs of LLC and DHQ, involving ADHO constituent members
- dto. for multilingual CFPs and abstracts
Phase 2: Policy initiatives, including
- hosting of DHQ conferences in countries other than the US and Europe
- coopting new members from e.g. Japan onto our committee
Phase 3: Research projects, including
- software for generating multi-lingual concept ontologies from papers and abstracts
Topics & actions discussed
3) Practical activities
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Call 2009
- not all 2008 versions could be updated (cf. Hungarian, Italian), German is still missing, Norwegian has not been finished yet
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DH 2009: The Call is available in:
- English
- French
- Polish
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Swedish
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The Call was sent out to members of ALLC and ACH asking for volunteer translations. The result of this was quite poor. Only 2 people reacted:
Spanish Esteva María Serbian Sukovic Suzana - The Call was not sent to SDH-SEMI as had been planned
- A long and intensive mail conversation with a Japanese Scholar led to her becoming a member of one of the associations.The plan to do a Japanese translation had to be given up, however.
- Contribution to ConfTool wording French - Spanish - German
4) “Research into the linguistic and cultural nature of the ADHO community”
see separate attachment
5) Co-options
The committee has decided to c-opt Jan Rybicki for one year. He will be a memberof the committee from the 25th of June 2009 onwards.