TraduXio is a participative platform for cultural texts translators.
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Here you can find a "How To", explaining TraduXio's basic functionalities.

No. Strictly speaking, TraduXio is not a Translation Memory. Whereas traditional Translation Memory devices are limited to two languages (source/target), TraduXio allows the comparison between many different versions of the same text. Moreover, for TraduXio offers a (social) tagging/classification system of the source-text (according to its literary genre, author, historical period, etc.), it enables a better management of translated texts.

Yes, you need to register to get a log in. In order to be invited by a member of the community, click on “Register”, on the right side of the Front Page menu, and send us an e-mail.

By default, all your work will remain private and invisible to the others. You manage the text’s privileges (access, edit, translate, etc.) the way you want, at all time. You can build your own community with your own sharing rules.

TraduXio respects copyright (and “droit d’auteur”) regulations. The site contains only works taken from the public domain. Translations of protected texts are possible but require previous authorization from copyright holders.TraduXio would like to value the work of translators and their rights, while promoting a spirit of mutualisation, through the use of open licenses.

TraduXio is very liberal, so you remain free to choose which kind of license suits you best, for each text, and for the sets of texts. We recommend the use of “open” licenses, of the Creative Commons type.

Yes. TraduXio is and will remain durably free of use.

Yes. The software is developed with a GNU/GPL3 license.

Yes, since the code is open, you are free to build your own translation platform, provided you respect the original license (GNU/GPL3).

No, TraduXio is Web based. It is an online workbench.

No. It is meant to be a collaborative Platform and network connecting users/translators worldwide. You decide whether you want to make your translations public, how, and under what legal conditions. You remain free to remove your translations and keep control over your datas, at all time.

Although machine translation and translation memories are frequently used in business, they are inadequate to translate a text from a culture to another one. When faced with philosophy, literature or ancient texts, professional translators have to cope with the fact that the most important things to "translate" are often in the style, in details, or even unwritten.

The project was launched and is currently led by the French NGO “Zanchin” (“association loi 1901”), based in Paris. The scientific direction is ensured by the Tech-Cico department of the University of Technology of Troyes (France). Other partners (DGLFLF, UNESCO …) are involved in the project, providing either financial or institutional support.