David+Owen

David.Owen@uab.cat  Translation and Language Advisory Unit [|Servei de Llengües] [|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona] ||
 * **Name & Institution** || **David Owen**
 * **Materials** || The materials we translate, e.g. in terms of text types or mediums:

**Paper print-outs** (basically, academic transcripts and degree certificates; sometimes syllabuses)

**Digital**

- Word - PDF - Powerpoint - Excel

We also frequently translate directly onto an internet content-management programme (//Fatwire//) when working with web content. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Organisational model** || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Our organisational or business models:**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">We are language technicians (translators/terminologists) working within a dedicated translation unit in the university's modern language service. Though several of us do in fact also work as teachers in a number of faculties (Philosophy & Arts; Translation; Political Science), this is not a part of our work in this unit.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Formerly, the university made use of academics in the Translation Faculty to carry out both institutional and academic translation; however, for the last 10 years or so, it has been committed to the current model. ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Resources used** || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The type of resources we employ are as follows:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Word (etc), printed dictionaries, and Internet resources <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Deja Vu <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Online open resources <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Translate <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Our own terminology database] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Language policies** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The language policies of the universities we work for (i.e. what gets translated/communicated in a foreign language and what languages we are asked to provide materials in) The UAB publishes all institutional documentation in Spanish and Catalan, and increasingly—where this documentation is to be made available in any format or for any purposes outside the university (even within Spain)—also in English. This includes all information given on the academic programmes offered by the university (the Bologna degree, MA programmes, doctoral programmes). There is no set policy as regards the publication of academic research as it obviously falls to individual researchers or research groups to determine the languages that they need to work and publish in.  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Languages** || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The foreign languages we are asked to provide materials in:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">en (gb/us) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">fr-fr <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">de-de <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">it-it

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">In our context, both Catalan (ca) and Spanish (sp-sp) are deemed co-official, though we are often required to translate from one into the other ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Communicative purpose** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The purposes of the materials we work on are the following:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Institutional communication; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Promotional material, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Dissemination of research <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Academic programming and coordination <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Administrative regulations, collaboration and correspondence

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student information <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Official documents (e.g. Academic and Examination Regulations) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Press releases <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">User resources ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Projects and Assignments**

|| <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">University websites (Schools, Faculties, Departments, Services)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Papers for submission to journals <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Syllabuses <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Course descriptions both for students and for governmental agencies <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Academic transcripts <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Inter-university contracts (collaboration agreements, joint initiatives, etc.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">University regulations <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Style guides <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ambit-specific nomenclatures <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Administrative correspondence ||