Les germes d'une coopération par le biais de l'internet existent déjà. Notre projet NetGlos a dépendu du bon vouloir de traducteurs volontaires de nombreux pays: Canada, Etats-Unis, Autriche, Norvège, Belgique, Israël, Portugal, Russie, Grèce, Brésil, Nouvelle-Zélande, etc. Je pense que les centaines de visiteurs qui consultent quotidiennement les pages de NetGlos constituent un excellent témoignage du succès de ce type de relations de travail. Les relations de coopération s'accroîtront encore à l'avenir, mais pas nécessairement sur la base du volontariat.
GEOFFREY KINGSCOTT [EN, FR]
[EN] Geoffrey Kingscott (London)
#Co-editor of the online magazine Language Today
Geoffrey Kingscott is the managing director of Praetorius, a major British translation company and language consultancy, and one of the two editors of Language today, an online magazine for people working in applied languages: translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers and technical writers.
*Interview of September 4, 1998
= What did using the Internet bring to your company?
The Internet has made comparatively little difference to our company. It is an additional medium rather than one which will replace all others.
We will continue to have a company website, and to publish a version of the magazine on the Web, but it will remain only one factor in our work. We do use the Internet as a source of information which we then distill for our readers, who would otherwise be faced with the biggest problem of the Web — undiscriminating floods of information.
= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?