From translators to accessibility managers: How did we get there and how do we train them?

Remael, Aline; Orero, Pilar; Black, Sharon; Jankowska, Anna

doi:10.6035/monti.2019.11.5

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“…While the copyright management of translation of literary texts is legally recognised and studied extensively in the field of Translation Studies ( Bassnett & Bush, 2006 ; Federici, 2011 ; Gentzler, 1993 ; Venuti, 1982 ), little is known about the copyrights management in the translation audiovisual media assets ( Matamala & Orero, 2007 ; Matamala & Orero, 2019 ; Orero, 2005 ; Orero, 2007 ; Remael et al, 2019 ). Subtitles experienced a transformation with the approval of the United Nations Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).…”

Section: Subtitle Copyright Managementmentioning

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The visible subtitler: Blockchain technology towards right management and minting

Orero¹,

Torner²,

Oncins³

2023

Open Res Europe

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Background: Subtitles are produced through different workflows and technologies: from fully automatic to human in open source web editors or in-house platforms, and increasingly through hybrid human-machine interaction. There is little agreement regarding subtitle copyright beyond the understanding that it is a derivative work. While same language verbatim subtitles may have little room for creativity, interlingual subtitling is heavily dependent on the subtitler skills to translate, prioritise, and condense information. These days creative subtitles are increasingly being used as one more aesthetic element in audiovisual narrative. Though they may be in the same language, the visual attributes that contribute to the narrative development make creative subtitles one more element that should be acknowledged and copyright protected. Methods: The paper will present a short introduction to subtitling copyright. It will then describe centralised and decentralised copyright management — where blockchain technology can be applied to aid subtitler identification. A focus group with expert professional subtitlers was organised, and feedback is reported. Conclusions: Subtitle copyright is country dependent, still subtitling working practices and media asset distribution have no geographical borders. Blockchain technology -as a concept- could aid subtitle traceability. This can be useful beyond financial and moral right management and work towards media sustainability, allowing for reuse and repurpose of existing media assets.

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Section: Subtitle Copyright Managementmentioning

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The visible subtitler: Blockchain technology towards right management and minting

Orero¹,

Torner²,

Oncins³

2023

Open Res Europe

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“…In the last decade, various Erasmus + projects have been developed in the field of accessibility to train new professional profiles for European accessibility services such as the audio description expert (Perego 2017), the accessibility manager for the performing arts (Orero 2017, Remael et al 2019, the expert in easy-to-understand language in audiovisual media or the expert in live subtitles (Bernabé and Orero 2018, Oncins et al 2019. Although these projects have focused on services to ensure that media content is accessible, it is important to highlight the growing importance of technologies to be able to offer these services, which is why there was a need to scale accessibility to a transversal level, that of accessibility in ICT products and services, which is the main aim of the IMPACT project.…”

Section: New Professional Profiles In the Accessibility Fieldmentioning

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Training professionals to improve media accessibility

Oncins

Matamala

2021

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COVID-19 has affected all areas of our lives, and cinema, as part of culture, is no exception. New and existing technologies applied to audiovisual products are changing the way in which we provide and access culture.Nobody challenges the importance of having accessible audiovisual content. This is the aim of the recently approved European Directives following the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The new European legislative framework must guarantee the full and democratic participation of all citizens in the new information society. It is crucial to ensure access to technology and content for all citizens.The objective of this article is to present the new professional profiles in the accessibility field that have been developed in the last decades through Erasmus+ projects initiatives. First, the current European legislative framework on accessibility will be outlined. Then, the main accessibility services available in the media field will be explained. Next, the professional profiles in accessibility will be presented together with the emerging new profiles and Erasmus+ projects. Finally, the conclusions will outline the existing needs and improvements in the education and training of new professionals in media accessibility.

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“…Rather than stable, clearly defined concepts, these notions have been undergoing change, convergence and diversification. The field of Media Accessibility, for instance, has increasingly converged with accessibility in the broader sense as well as with AVT (Remael, Orero, Black, & Jankowska, 2019), and subtitling in AVT is also done intralingually. By the same token, the boundaries of interpreting are being extended beyond the spoken and signed modalities so as also to include written target texts (Pöchhacker, 2019).…”

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New efforts? A competence-oriented task analysis of interlingual live subtitling

Pöchhacker

Remael²

2020

LANS-TTS

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This article offers a theoretical analysis of interlingual live subtitling as a translational task with the aim of defining the skill set and competence profile to be developed by future practitioners. The outcome of this task analysis will thus serve to guide curriculum design both for training in interlingual live subtitling and for developing task-specific teaching methods. While taking account of the findings of empirical studies conducted in the context of the EU-funded Erasmus+ project, Interlingual Live Subtitling for Access[i]and related research, our line of argument is essentially deductive: models of the interpreting process and of translational competence are our essential points of departure. Our process analysis of interlingual live subtitling, which refers to the Effort Model, will identify subprocesses and subskills. The latter will be put together in a competence model as a framework that can be filled with specific learning outcomes for training in interlingual live subtitling.[i] This research was carried out within the framework of the European ILSA Project (for further information see www.ilsaproject.eu), though it was not part of the funded Intellectual Outputs of the project. We would like to thank our ILSA partners for their critical reading of the draft version of this article and their constructive input.

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From translators to accessibility managers: How did we get there and how do we train them?

Cited by 6 publications

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The visible subtitler: Blockchain technology towards right management and minting

The visible subtitler: Blockchain technology towards right management and minting

Training professionals to improve media accessibility

New efforts? A competence-oriented task analysis of interlingual live subtitling

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