Multilingual Information Management

Introduction

“The best resources are surely those generated by professionals themselves during their professional activity, through arduous searches.”

(Sales and Pinto 2011, p. 254)

In the previous parts of this book, a picture has been provided of how information intertwines with multilingual information professionals. First, by defining the ICT-based environment that surrounds multilingual information related workplaces, mostly freelance translators, the information literacy paradigm that surrounds their professional practice and a strategic approach that can help us to understand how and why ICT is adopted. Then, a research framework is presented that helps understand how to interact within this multilingual environment and that includes ...