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Now that we have been doing migrations of Paratext data for quite some time, we have put together a list of things that should be considered at the time of migration. This is great news if you are at the point of migrating your Paratext 7 project to Paratext 8. But don’t worry, even if you have already completed the migration, we’ve provided instructions for you too. It isn’t too late, but you might have some extra steps involved. Please read through the list below, and follow these topics to the website for more information if you should deal with any of these issues. …
Paratext is well known for its ability to synchronize data among multiple team members both online and offline. It was designed for use in areas with low bandwidth or no Internet, and so most teams are aware of its ability to synchronize data on a flashdrive. Very few people, however, know about another very useful collaboration option, even though it appears prominently in the Send/Receive dialog box each time you use it.
That option is Chorus Hub. It makes it possible to do Send/Receive over a local network, without using the Internet. Chorus Hub is a small program that you install on one (and only one) of the computers in your team. After you download and install it, it runs in the background and makes itself visible to the other Paratext computers on the network.
In the image above, notice that a computer with the name MARC-PC is running Chorus Hub. …
Paratext 8 has a built-in system for tracking your translation team’s progress that can give an estimate of how much time it will take to accomplish your project’s goal. This can be useful for the team during yearly planning sessions when tasks are assigned to various team members. It can also allow administrators to track their team’s progress and be notified of potential issues long before the next planning and review session. But if you are going to take advantage of these features, you need to do a bit of configuring.
The first step, of course, is to select a project plan and customize it for your team. You can learn how to do this by viewing this set of 8 short videos on how to set up and administer the project plan.
Once you have the project plan in place and are using it, you can start to benefit from the progress charts in Paratext 8. …
Paratext 8 is slowly but surely getting new resources added. Not as fast as everyone would like, of course, but negotiating new licenses for the texts we have used in the past has proven challenging. Not only that, but in a number of cases, the texts we want to use are not yet uploaded to the Digital Bible Library. Yet progress is being made because almost every time you open Paratext 8 and go to the Download/Install Resources dialog box, you will see certain items marked as new 
or updated 
. Paratext checks to see which resources have been added since you last looked, and it also checks for newer versions of the resources that you have installed.
In the past couple days there was a flood of updated resources, and you might be wondering what has changed. It seems that the resources that were available were limited to the canonical books of the Bible and didn’t include any glossaries or extra-Biblical material that may have been included with the resource. …
Registering for Paratext 8 was simple enough, you simply went to registry.paratext.org and authenticated with your email address, selecting your organization, and filling out four other blanks–only one of which is mandatory. Simple enough, that is, if you had a connection to the Internet and a G Suite (Google-based) email address. If you didn’t, you were out of luck–although we knew this limitation was only temporary.
Well, now the capability has been added to the registry site for two new registration options, neither of which require a Google account.
This option allows project administrators to register their team members. When you log into registry.paratext.org and go to the Users tab, you should see a button that says “Register New User”
Please be aware, this button will only work if you are an administrator on one or more projects in the registry. …
Paratext 7 came with 121 resource texts in forty different languages. What is in store for users of Paratext 8?
A resource text is a text that is not editable and is available for other translators to use as a model text or to gain insight into possible ways to render a difficult passage. When an ideas or object in the original language doesn’t have a direct equivalent in the receptor language, the translator looks for creative ways to describe it in the receptor culture. Take the word “throne” for example. It often refers not to a chair, but is representative of a kingdom and its power or authority. And even when it does refer to the chair a king sits on, that can also be difficult to express in cultures where chairs are not used. In these cases, a translator will look to translations from similar cultures in the area to see how the ideas were expressed. …
Now that we have been doing migrations of Paratext data for quite some time, we have put together a list of things that should be considered at the time of migration. This is great news if you are at the point of migrating your Paratext 7 project to Paratext 8. But don’t worry, even if you have already completed the migration, we’ve provided instructions for you too. It isn’t too late, but you might have some extra steps involved. Please read through the list below, and follow these topics to the website for more information if you should deal with any of these issues. …
Paratext is well known for its ability to synchronize data among multiple team members both online and offline. It was designed for use in areas with low bandwidth or no Internet, and so most teams are aware of its ability to synchronize data on a flashdrive. Very few people, however, know about another very useful collaboration option, even though it appears prominently in the Send/Receive dialog box each time you use it.
That option is Chorus Hub. It makes it possible to do Send/Receive over a local network, without using the Internet. Chorus Hub is a small program that you install on one (and only one) of the computers in your team. After you download and install it, it runs in the background and makes itself visible to the other Paratext computers on the network.
In the image above, notice that a computer with the name MARC-PC is running Chorus Hub. …
Paratext 8 has a built-in system for tracking your translation team’s progress that can give an estimate of how much time it will take to accomplish your project’s goal. This can be useful for the team during yearly planning sessions when tasks are assigned to various team members. It can also allow administrators to track their team’s progress and be notified of potential issues long before the next planning and review session. But if you are going to take advantage of these features, you need to do a bit of configuring.
The first step, of course, is to select a project plan and customize it for your team. You can learn how to do this by viewing this set of 8 short videos on how to set up and administer the project plan.
Once you have the project plan in place and are using it, you can start to benefit from the progress charts in Paratext 8. …
Paratext 8 is slowly but surely getting new resources added. Not as fast as everyone would like, of course, but negotiating new licenses for the texts we have used in the past has proven challenging. Not only that, but in a number of cases, the texts we want to use are not yet uploaded to the Digital Bible Library. Yet progress is being made because almost every time you open Paratext 8 and go to the Download/Install Resources dialog box, you will see certain items marked as new or updated . Paratext checks to see which resources have been added since you last looked, and it also checks for newer versions of the resources that you have installed.
In the past couple days there was a flood of updated resources, and you might be wondering what has changed. It seems that the resources that were available were limited to the canonical books of the Bible and didn’t include any glossaries or extra-Biblical material that may have been included with the resource. …
Registering for Paratext 8 was simple enough, you simply went to registry.paratext.org and authenticated with your email address, selecting your organization, and filling out four other blanks–only one of which is mandatory. Simple enough, that is, if you had a connection to the Internet and a G Suite (Google-based) email address. If you didn’t, you were out of luck–although we knew this limitation was only temporary.
Well, now the capability has been added to the registry site for two new registration options, neither of which require a Google account.
This option allows project administrators to register their team members. When you log into registry.paratext.org and go to the Users tab, you should see a button that says “Register New User”
Please be aware, this button will only work if you are an administrator on one or more projects in the registry. …
Paratext 7 came with 121 resource texts in forty different languages. What is in store for users of Paratext 8?
A resource text is a text that is not editable and is available for other translators to use as a model text or to gain insight into possible ways to render a difficult passage. When an ideas or object in the original language doesn’t have a direct equivalent in the receptor language, the translator looks for creative ways to describe it in the receptor culture. Take the word “throne” for example. It often refers not to a chair, but is representative of a kingdom and its power or authority. And even when it does refer to the chair a king sits on, that can also be difficult to express in cultures where chairs are not used. In these cases, a translator will look to translations from similar cultures in the area to see how the ideas were expressed. …
