Recognizing, translating and appropriating information

the portuguese version of a taxonomy at the service of research in Digital Humanities

Abstract

Objective: To present and discuss the possibilities and challenges inherent to the translation and appropriation by the Global South of the instrument of organization and representation of knowledge relevant to Digital Humanities, built by initiatives of the Global North.
Methodology: It was divided into two parts, the first being a bibliographic survey and literature review to discuss the theme, and the second the experience report of the translation and implementation project of a multilingual platform dedicated to a taxonomy for digital research and methods applied to the broad area of Humanities.
Results: During the translation of the multilingual controlled vocabulary, the context of the users was taken into account so that the taxonomy reflected the reality of Digital Humanities in Brazil. Of the 129 terms that compose it, only 3 were left untranslated because they did not have a correspondence in Portuguese and because their use did not make sense to Brazilian users in their mother tongue.
Conclusions: It points out that the continuity of the translation work of new terms is essential since the tool covers different disciplines of the Humanities and contributes to a greater circulation and access of information in these areas, especially in perspective to the Global South and the possible challenges regarding the organization and representation of information and knowledge.