2. NeoIPC
3. NeoIPC

Thank you for translating the NeoIPC Surveillance Toolkit. These notes cover things that are easy to get wrong and are not obvious from the strings themselves. Questions and corrections are welcome — comment on the string, or write to NeoIPC-Support@charite.de.

Terminology is recorded, not re-decided per string. Where a term has an agreed rendering in your language it is in the glossary, and the glossary entry wins. Where an official WHO translation of a term exists, that is the agreed rendering — for example the antibiotic categories Access / Watch / Reserve are Acceso / Precaución / Reserva in Spanish, from the WHO AWaRe antibiotic book, not a locally invented equivalent. If you think a glossary entry is wrong, say so in a comment rather than translating around it; the entry is what the next translator will follow.

Placeholders in curly braces must survive. {count}, {department} and the like are replaced with real values when a report is rendered. Keep every one that appears in the source, spelled exactly as it is. Their order may change to suit your language — that is why they are named.

Infectious agent list — the Latin names. Most of that catalogue is scientific organism names, their synonyms, and rank labels such as Species or Genus. In many languages these are used unchanged in clinical and laboratory work, and where that is so the correct translation is the name exactly as it stands.

If you can confirm — as a domain expert in your language, or together with one — that your language uses these names untranslated, please tell us at NeoIPC-Support@charite.de. We can then fill them in for your language in a single batch instead of asking you to confirm several thousand entries by hand, which leaves you free to work on the entries that genuinely need a decision: vernacular organism and disease names, the rank labels, and the surrounding prose.

Please do not assume it, and please do not batch-confirm them yourself. Several languages — Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Ukrainian among them — have established vernacular organism names, and there these entries are real translation work rather than a formality. The right answer differs by language, which is why we ask rather than decide it centrally. If you are unsure, leave the entry and ask in a comment.