Ediarum in Spanish. Challenges in Software Localization

Ediarum is an editing environment designed and implemented by TELOTA at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW, Germany). It is based on two main components: an open-source XML native database (eXistDB) and a widely used commercial XML editor (Oxygen XML editor). This paper aims to present ediarum.PROHD.edit and to reflect on the most important challenges encountered during the software localization. After reviewing what “localization” means in Translation Studies (Pym, 2016; Jiménez Crespo, 2016), I will discuss the process of internationalization of the software (mostly variables written in ediarum's default functions), the localization itself (the translation of terms and descriptions displayed in the interface) and some testing undertaken with the Cuban team of Proyecto Humboldt Digital. Bibliographic References Dumont, Stefan and Martin Fechner, “Bridging the Gap: Greater Usability for TEI encoding”, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online], 8 (2015). DOI: 10.4000/jtei.1242 Jiménez Crespo, Miguel A., “What is (not) web localization in Translation Studies”, The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 3:1 (2016), 38–60. DOI: 10.1075/jial.3.1.03jim Pym, Anthony, Teorías contemporáneas de la traducción, trans. Noelia Jiménez, Maia Figueroa, Esther Torres, Marta Quejido, Anna Sedano, Ana Guerberof, Helena Romero López, Melisa Monaco, Tarragona, Intercultural Studies Group, 2016.DARIAH Annual Event 2021: Interface