Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A scholarly English translation of a 16th-century Latin medical text, published with critical apparatus and translator credit on the title page
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A Google Translate output of a paragraph is not a translation work in the scholarly-output sense
Editorial commentary
Particularly important in humanities, history of science, religious studies, and language scholarship. Translation-as-output recognises the translator’s intellectual contribution and gives a citable record for the translated version. Distinct from AI-only machine translation which is typically not classed as a creditable scholarly output.
References
- ISO 17100:2015 Translation services
- MLA Translation Studies guidelines
Also known as
Scholarly translation · Translation publication
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Translation (work)"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translation-work" />json
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Translation (work)",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translation-work",
"description": "A scholarly publication that renders a previously-published work from one natural language into another, with the translator(s) credited and the original work referenced, treated as a distinct research output for purposes of credit, citation, and intellectual contribution.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-outputs-expanded/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translation-work",
"sameAs": [
"Scholarly translation",
"Translation publication"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
