Re: Is any translator team using glossaries?

[Sveinn í Felli <sv1 fellsnet is>]

Þann sun 29.apr 2018 20:32, skrifaði Rudolfs Mazurs:
> Hi all,
> I was looking around for a glossary for the GNOME project. The only one I
> could find was made 14 years ago [1]. Perhaps there is a more up-to-date
> version somewhere?

You can roll your own using gettext [1], which calls them 'compendium' 
[2]. Beware, at first you may get a file with *all* existing strings in 
the project - what you really want is a selection of short definitions 
and words that are of help for translators.
It can take several passes of gettext commands to filter out the 
relevant strings into a combined PO-file or a CVS (better for structuring).
To use the glossary with a CAT-application like Lokalize, you would 
probably like to convert your glossary to a TBX-format (industry 
standard glossary exchange format); there are multiple tools available 
to help with glossary creation, but curiously most of them are 
Windows-only (Glossary Converter, Okapi-Rainbow, Heartsome-TMX...).
Some of those run fine in Wine on Linux.

OT: But you may also ask yourself *why* glossaries should be based on 
specific software-projects; for my (tiny) language, a coordinated effort 
has been made to publish sector/discipline-based glossaries [3]; one for 
each of astronomy, economics, engineering, electronics, etc. (total of 
43 glossaries + a combined one I made myself). I even got separate 
glossaries for networking/encryption/certificates, for 
computers/software and for computers/hardware.
Similar glossaries may exist for your language.

Of course such field based glossaries have their disadvantages; designed 
by committees (when is that a good idea?), not always very up to date, 
difficult to amend/maintain/edit, etc. Meaning that there *has to be* 
active input from the users, which often are translators - professionals 
or hobbyists - who should listen carefully to their audience and be 
active in proposing new words/definitions to the publishers of the 
glossaries. Under no circumstances, these can exist as a private matter 
of some 'authority' in an 'ivory tower'... ;-)

On the other hand such cross-projects glossaries can be of great help 
maintaining consistency across different projects, just as well as in a 
big project like GNOME.

Just thoughts, best regards,

Sveinn í Felli
Translator for Icelandic (is) in several FOSS-projects

[1]: 
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Creating-Compendia>
[2]: 
<http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/guide/project/howto.html#not-repeating-yourself>
[3]: <http://www.malfong.is/index.php?lang=en&pg=islex>