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Article published In: Übersetzen und Dolmetschen im juristischen Bereich / Traduction et interprétation juridiques / Legal Translation and Interpreting: Technologie – Outsourcing – Veränderungen / Technologie – externalisation – transformations / Technology – Outsourcing – Shifts
Edited by Frans De Laet, Reiner Heard and Miodrag Vukčević
[Babel 66:2] 2020
► pp. 226–253

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Translation quality gained through the implementation of the iso en 17100:2015 and the usage of the blockchain

The case of sworn translation in Spain

 | Woolf University
Published online: 6 April 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00153.mor
Abstract
The iso en 17100:2015 (Translation Services – Requirements for Translation Services) is a quality standard including a set of provisions (requirements and recommendations) for all the core aspects of the translation process, considered as an industrial asset. Its main (or, rather, its only) goal is the implementation of a series of activities deemed as necessary for the delivery of a quality translation end-product, on the assumption that a quality process leads ineluctably to a quality end-product. The standard’s provisions do not refer to what is in Spain known as traducción jurada (sworn translation). This paper addresses what the standard leaves out: a proposal for the implementation of its provisions, combined with the usage of the blockchain
and other disruptive technologies to sworn translation, by focusing on the illustrative case of Spain. It discusses the applicable regulations concerning sworn translation and sworn translation standardization and explores the methods through which the combined application of a functional translation methodological framework, the provisions of the iso en 17100:2015 standard, a standardized macrotextual pattern and a number of security devices and disruptive technologies might contribute to building a quality management system in the domain of sworn translation.
Résumé
La norme iso en 17100:2015 (Services de traduction – Exigences relatives aux services de traduction) est une norme de qualité comprenant un ensemble de dispositions (exigences et recommandations) sur tous les aspects essentiels du processus de traduction, considéré comme un actif industriel. Son objectif principal (ou plutôt son objectif unique) est la mise en œuvre d’une série d’activités jugées nécessaires pour fournir un produit final de qualité en matière de traduction, en partant du principe qu’un processus de qualité conduit inéluctablement à un produit final de qualité. Les dispositions de la norme ne font pas référence à ce que l’on appelle, en Espagne, la traducción jurada (traduction jurée). Le présent document traite de ce que la norme omet : une proposition pour la mise en œuvre de ses dispositions, combinée à l’utilisation de la chaîne de blocs et d’autres technologies perturbatrices pour la traduction assermentée, en se concentrant sur le cas de l’Espagne en guise d’exemple. Il examine les réglementations applicables à la traduction assermentée et à la normalisation de la traduction assermentée et étudie les méthodes par lesquelles l’application combinée d’un cadre méthodologique fonctionnel de traduction, des dispositions de la norme iso en 17100:2015, d’un modèle macrotextuel normalisé et d’un certain nombre de dispositifs de sécurité et de technologies perturbatrices pourrait contribuer à la mise en place d’un système de gestion de la qualité dans le domaine de la traduction assermentée.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Sworn translation standardized and measured for quality with the aid of technology?
    • 2.1Sworn translation in Spain
    • 2.2Disruptive technologies applied to sworn translation
    • 2.3Translation standards
    • 2.4Translation quality
  • 3.An approach to a sworn translation qms
  • 4.Implications for sworn translation stakeholders
    • 4.1Translation framework implications
    • 4.2Technology-based implications
    • 4.3Translation standard certification implications
    • 4.4Standardized pattern implications
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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