Translation

The supported translations are listed in the OCDS documentation. Community translations might exist to various levels of completion.

This section describes:

• The responsibilities of authors of content

• The translation workflow and roles involved

  • How to navigate the projects and resources in Transifex

  • How to use Transifex as a translator, proofreader or reviewer

  • How to push and pull translations from Transifex, and how to build translated schema, codelists and documentation

• How translation is implemented at a technical level

Contents:

• Authors
  • Managing minor changes
• Translation workflow
  • Roles
  • Steps
• Quality assurance
  • Glossary
  • Translation style guide
  • pofilter
• Understanding Transifex
  • Projects and resources
  • Strings to be translated
• Using Transifex
  • Steps for translators, proofreaders and reviewers
  • Translation tasks
  • Non-translation tasks
• Technical processes for translation
  • Configure Transifex
  • Extract strings to translate into POT files
  • Map POT files to Transifex resources
  • Push strings to translate to Transifex
  • Pull translations from Transifex
  • Push translations to Transifex
  • Test translations
  • Review translated codelists
  • Add a community translation
• Technical implementation of translation
  • Extract messages
  • Translate source files

See also: Localising OCDS: translations, terminology and extensions