LiveDocs corpora for project support info
One of the videos I linked to in the introductory post for the memoQ Fest week LiveDocs blitz, which is part of this post, shows how to import reference files in their original format to a LiveDocs corpus. This has a lot of potential applications for individual translators as well as managers of online projects on a memoQ TMS server (in fact, the video shows the project management interface rather than the more familiar memoQ project or Resource Console interfaces for the desktop editions).
A corpus like the example in the video and the screenshots below can be used to collect and distribute things such as PDF copies of a translation file, videos for subtitling projects (perhaps to use with the free memoQ video preview tool), applicable styleguides, light resources pre-configured for project-relevant we searches, regular expression libraries or QA profiles for project quality assurance and more.
The examples here are from a course I gave in January 2024 at a Lisbon university together with my esteemed colleague and friend, Marek Pawelec, one of the leading technical solution experts for memoQ TMS. In courses for project managers and individual translators, we provided configuration files, original source files for learning exercises, regex collections for many purposes, special file filters, language pair web search examples and a lot more in a way that as soon as course participants downloaded the projects for class they had access to all the resources and could work with them on their personal computers.
The screenshot below shows that same corpus in two instances in the memoQ Resource Console. I created the corpus locally first and then uploaded it to the teaching server; both copies are shown here. If I were to unpin the local project, I would have to re-register it in memoQ to see it again in the Resource Console or projects. The command to add more original format files is marked in red at the bottom of the screenshot.
Below is a look at the same online corpus in a local project, with they keyword “regex” applied to show only those files with some relevance to regular expressions. These keyword filters are a very convenient way for users to find specific content when a corpus contains many documents.
The filtering keyword and the button on the LiveDocs ribbon to import more original format reference files are both marked with red in the screenshot.
Note that although the example corpus here has a lot of files in it, the number of entries for the corpus is zero. That’s because Entries in those interface screens refers only to indexed content that is used for Concordance searches or Translation results matching while you work. “Reference files” in the current jargon for a memoQ LiveDocs corpus have nothing to do with those things. When you double-click a reference file in a corpus it will be downloaded to your local drive and possibly opened by the application stipulated as the default for the given file type.
Have you used such “reference files” in your project corpora already? If not, maybe it’s time to give it a try!