Example: How to use the OCM category "Fishing"

You can use the OCM categories to organize information belonging to a certain topic, for example, "Fishing". Fishing is a subcategory under 22 Food Quest. Scroll to category 22 and double-click to open it. You will see 226 Fishing, which can be further opened to its subcategories.

Alternately, if you want to find out whether and where the topic "Fishing" is listed, look for it in the OCM index under the F section.

You can buy a spiral-bound version of the OCM if you prefer to look things up in book form.

• Categorize any language and culture field notes and data about fishing using OCM category 226 Fishing .
• Categorize material about fishing that you plan to translate under the OCM category 226 Fishing .
• Access all data belonging to the OCM category 226 Fishing.
• Review what you have gathered so far under the OCM category 226 Fishing .

  Results: You will be able to see whether your translation team has the language and cultural information needed to translate passages that mention fishing, either literally or figuratively.

• Do a cross-cultural study of fishing by comparing other studies categorized under the OCM category 226 Fishing with your own.
• Identify gaps in the languge and culture data available on fishing and plan appropriate research.
• Contribute to cross-cultural research by making available your material categorized under the OCM category 226 Fishing .

  Tip:	You can share reliable language and culture material on fishing in your locale via a central data bank for use by you and your colleagues.

• Example of task module: Example: How to use the OCM category "Fishing"
• In modular book: Using the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), by Elinor Abbot
• In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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