Controlo de qualidade na tradução.

Abstract

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” – so goes the old saying. (...) Ask two different translators to evaluate a translation and you’ll get three opinions. Beyond the notion that things have to be translated, and translated correctly, various ideas of how to evaluate translations vary wildly. What one person finds a fine localization another may find barely serviceable, but your company is routinely evaluated on the quality of the localizations you put on the market. (http://www.lisa.org/ archive_domain/newsletters/2004/1.1/qamodel.html). We’ve come a long 58 Miriam Santos way since the traditional quality control (consisting of little more than grammar and spell checking, and a few subjective criteria issued by a company’s internal team) to a customer-oriented formal quality control set off by localization where the product, the end-users and functionality are key factors to quality control (which also covers character formatting, hyperlinks, crossreferences, DTP, adherence to style guide, and other items). The quality control team has to bear in mind increasing market demands such as meeting deadlines, cutting down on costs and managing large teams of off-site freelance resources.