ABSTRACT

The act of co-authoring an article across two languages (German and English) and three institutional contexts (a large science and technology museum, a university-based small art museum and a university-based small anthropology museum) led to numerous instances in which the meaning of particular terms had to be both articulated and negotiated to ensure understanding. This was uniquely important given that the article being written was about collaboration and cooperation. The process for doing so took place in the digital margins of our shared document, creating a dataset that could be interrogated through further conversation and careful analysis. While we recognized that translation work was happening, this analysis led us to understand how translation and collaboration are conjoined. We argue that all collaborations require acts of translation as participants establish shared understandings, build relationships, and decenter personal, cultural, and institutional assumptions.

摘要

共同撰写跨两种语言（德语和英语）和三种机构环境（大型科学技术博物馆，以大学为基础的小型美术馆和以大学为基础的小型人类学博物馆）的文章的行为导致了许多事例，其中必须明确表达和协商特定术语的含义，以确保理解。鉴于撰写的文章是关于协作与合作的，所以这一点非常重要。这样做的过程发生在我们共享文档的数字空白处，从而创建了可以通过进一步的对话和仔细的分析来查询的数据集。当我们意识到翻译工作正在进行时，这种分析使我们了解了翻译和协作是如何结合在一起的。