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Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Pages: 127 - 130  
Year of Publication: 1999
ISBN:1-58113-072-4
Authors
John W. Stanley, Jr.  ClickCom, Inc., Charlotte, NC
W. Scott Speights  WebsiteTranslations, Inc., Clemson, SC
Sponsor
SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This paper presents the development of a methodology for presenting websites to an audience culturally different that the ones from which they originate. The process, called website localization, consists of far more than just textual translation of websites. The three-step procedure outlined is the first step in determining more effective techniques for website localization. Included is a case study that highlights the important aspects of localization.


REFERENCES

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Davis, G. (1978 & 1984) Management Information Systems: Theory and Structure. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall.
 
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Weiss, T. (1994) Translation in a Borderless World. Technical Communication Quarterly.
 
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Winters, Elaine. 1994. 'The new technologies, cross cultural communication, and localization: Ideas which are not mutually exclusive." Technical Communication 41:20-322.
 
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Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville, Information architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1998

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement
          Subjects: Documentation

  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces

          Nouns: WEB


General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Management, Performance, Theory


Keywords:
Internet, Website, Website localization, document localization, localization, translation

Collaborative Colleagues:
John W. Stanley, Jr.: colleagues
W. Scott Speights: colleagues

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