Women in Localization Intro

Women in Localization (W.L.) is certified as a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit. Its mission is to foster a global community for the advancement of women and the localization industry through networking, education, career advancement, mentoring and recognition for women’s accomplishments. Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008, W.L. is supported by thousands of women and men across the globe and local chapters who support members locally.

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A Closer Look at Netflix's Timed Text Style Guides and Subtitling Best Practices

Table of Contents Introduction Netflix Timed Text Style Guides Technical aspect Linguistic aspect Forced Narratives Trailers Subtitles vs. CC Conclusion Resources Appendix: SDH Identifiers Table - HU Watch my short "hook" about this post here: Download the slides here . Introduction Subtitling and audiovisual translation Dubbing and subtitling are very creative processes. Whether the audience watches with dubbed audio, or in the original language with foreign language subtitles, closed captions, or forced narratives, the ultimate goal is to make the shows enjoyable and resourceful. As well as making sure that any text is timed appropriately to the action, capturing creative vision and nuances in translation is critical for this goal. Audiovisual translation is like creating 3D translations. In traditional translation projects, you have the source text and the target text. It's two-dimensional. With audiovisual translations, you have the source text, the visuals...

Contentful Headless CMS - l10n & i18n

Exploring Contentful for Translation and Localization It seems there is a new buzzword in the website building industry: headless CMS (Content Management System). But what is exactly a headless CMS and how does it work? In this write-up, I am going to walk you through the different steps of how I explored one of the most popular headless CMSs, Contentful; how I created a simple website with it; and what approaches I took to localize the website into another language. In the end, I realized that I needed a completely different mindset on website building and localization in general. And I had a clear vision of when a headless CMS is useful and when it is recommended to use a traditional CMS, like WordPress, instead. Finally, I learned a lot about Node.js, Gatbsy.js, website deployment, and the many challenges i18n problems introduced into the subject. Part 1: Headless CMS & Contentful What is headless CMS? A headless CMS is a platform that has no default front-end system to determin...

Discussion: Managing Stakeholders

A point of view of a freelance localizer and translator Who was the stakeholder and what was their role? For this discussion, I am going to use my freelancing experiences and use my clients as stakeholders. These clients are mainly LSPs and within that, primarily need to deal with translation project managers or project coordinators. In some cases they are more on the junior side, meaning they are not involved that much in the entire project but only in the coordination between linguists, and in some cases, they are senior project managers who have more interests in the project outcome because they need to manage them from beginning to end and they also need to deal with their clients. In some cases, depending also on the client and the size of the company, the project manager can be the owner or the president of the organization at the same time. As I mainly had pleasant experiences with these stakeholders, I am going to explain how I learned to deal with them in general going into de...

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