I'm head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal Government's Central Linguistic Services, which means I'm in charge of organising translation matters for all the linguistic services of the Swiss government. = What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web? There's a problem here and the solution isn't obvious. It's a pity the battle against this kind of fraud will eventually justify, along with other abuses, a "Web police," which sadly is very far from the spirit in which the Web was created. = How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web? We now have a multilingual Internet. We have to build it up and ensure it's easy to access, which'll probably take a bit longer. BARBARA GRIMES [EN, FR] [EN] Barbara Grimes (Hawaii) #Editor of Ethnologue: Languages of the World The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages. A paper version and a CD-ROM are also available. [Interview 18/08/1998 // Interview 15/01/2000] *Interview of August 18, 1998 = How did using the Internet change your professional life? We have found the Internet to be useful, convenient, and supplementary to our work. Our main use of it is for e-mail. It is a convenient means of making information more widely available to a wider audience than the printed Ethnologue provides. On the other hand, many people in the audience we wish to reach do not have access to computers, so in some ways the Ethnologue on the Internet reaches a limited audience who own computers. I am particularly thinking of people in the so-called "third world". = How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web? Multilingual web pages are more widely useful, but much more costly to maintain. We have had requests for the Ethnologue in a few other languages, but we do not have the personnel or funds to do the translation or maintenance, since it is constantly being updated. *Interview of January 15, 2000 = Can you tell us about the Ethnologue? It is a catalog of the languages of the world, with information about where they are spoken, an estimate of the number of speakers, what language family they are in, alternate names, names of dialects, other sociolinguistic and demographic information, dates of published Bibles, a name index, a language family index, and language maps. = What exactly is your professional activity? I am the editor of the 8th to 14th editions, 1971-2000. = What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web? Any copyrights should be respected, just as with print matter. = What is your best experience with the Internet? Receiving corrections and new reliable information. = And your worst experience? Unkind criticism or that which does not include corrections. [FR] Barbara Grimes (Hawaii) #Directrice de publication de l'Ethnologue, une encyclopédie des langues