Final sign-off responsibility for translation projects

摘要

Casual observers may get the impression that with improved quality, some translation service providers are ready to take on the full responsibility for published translations.rnHowever, this does not appear to herald any change in the general industry rule of client responsibility. Provider acceptance of responsibility for published translations would seem impractical and ill-advised. Yet in some circumstances, translation providers do end up taking on this responsibility, since in those cases they alone have the necessary target language (TL) capability. Clients and providers are then obliged to jointly improvise viable solutions. Some clients with more exacting requirements shun market improvisation and opt for industrial-scale, in-house translation publishing systems. In the final analysis, lessons to be learned from the way these systems are designed and managed appear to be more deserving of attention than the question of designating print-file sign-off responsibility.