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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

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

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 [1] 1 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.

Keywords: sworn translation, traducción jurada , translation quality assurance, quality management system, disruptive technologies and translation, blockchain and translation, smart contracts and translation, digital signature, digital seal, neural machine translation, iso standard en 17100:2015, token, fiat, ledger, record-keeping, trust, consensus algorithm
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
Published online: 6 April 2020
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