Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A translator named on a book's title page as 'translated by X' with full credit on the cover
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Google Translate used to translate a single quote is AI translation, not a translator contribution
Editorial commentary
For book-length and standalone translations, translators are typically credited on the title page and sometimes as co-authors. For short translated passages embedded in an original work, acknowledgement is standard. AI-only translation is disclosed differently (see AI translation).
References
- ISO 17100:2015 Translation services
- ALTA American Literary Translators Association best practices
Also known as
Translation credit · Translator credit
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Translator contribution"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translator-contribution" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Translator contribution",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translator-contribution",
"description": "The intellectual work of converting a scholarly work from one natural language to another while preserving meaning, register, and technical accuracy, including the translator's own scholarly judgement on terminology, idiom, and disciplinary convention.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/credit-extensions-and-adjacent-contribution-vocabularies/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/translator-contribution",
"sameAs": [
"Translation credit",
"Translator credit"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
