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Volunteer/community translators wanted to translate Nelson Mandela’s “Conversations with Myself” (Eng to Ch)

Nelson Mandela’s new book “Conversation with Myself” is scheduled to be published internationally in October 2010.
Nelson Mandela’s personal archives include journals kept during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons; notes from the post-apartheid transition; and speeches and correspondence written [...]

The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community

Excellent article by Jonathan Stray from Nieman Journalism Lab on Yeeyan.org: The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community: www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/the-wikipedia-of-news-translation-yeeyan-orgs-volunteer-community/

D-Lib Magazine: Digital Libraries in China

Source: www.dlib.org/dlib/may10/05editorial.html
The current issue is devoted to the topic of digital library efforts in China. With the help of Sam Sun, long-time CNRI employee and Beijing native, we have gathered a group of authors who speak authoritatively on current projects in China. Four of those articles, primarily describing current and past projects from a non-technical perspective, [...]