Multi-Lingual Dictionary of Film Terms

In response to a generous bequest by the Taiwan Film Institute Archive, who gifted to Prof Williams their unique and considerable bi-lingual dictionary of film terms (English and Mandarin), the Dartmouth Library worked with MEP to OCR and transcribe this resource in order to make it available as an Onomy spreadsheet. The work to achieve this complex final spreadsheet (that features three varieties of Mandarin script) was completed by gifted recent Dartmouth graduate Janine Sun ’20. This work has inspired a year of internal funding by The Undergraduate Research Office to sponsor several more undergraduates at Dartmouth to help develop additional bilingual Onomy spreadsheets. These sheets will contribute to our goal of the first draft of a larger multi-lingual dictionary of film terms. We are currently working to expand the dictionary into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.