Evolution of a term search...

[alexpgp]

The term is КРИС, from a very short translation having to do with public health and HIV/AIDS.

"КРИС" is a very bad term to search for by itself, because it returns about a gazillion hits having to do with the name "Chris," so we go back to the source document and search for the following, which is excerpted from a list of computer-related items in a sentence:

"эпидемиологическая база данных, КРИС"

Joy. The first hit is a Word file at a site called www.capacityproject.info. I view the file as HTML and snag a fairly large list of possible useful acronyms, among which is:

КРИС Информационная система реагирования страны на эпидемию ВИЧ/СПИДа

Hmmm. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like acronyms that expand into words that only generally resemble the letters in the acronym. Информационная система might work for ИС, but the rest doesn't make sense, so I roll the dice one more time, searching for:

"Информационная система реагирования страны на эпидемию"

The third item in the list of hits is a PDF from the WHO, an outfit which likely knows a thing or two about HIV/AIDS. The excerpt shown on my screen is:

Комплексная региональная информационная сеть ООН (КРИС)

Just to calm my nerves, I search for the literal back-translation:

UN "Integrated Regional Information Network"

Google reports over 100,000 hits. My blood lust is satisfied.

After all that, there's only room to include "IRIN" in the translation. And so it goes.

Cheers...

Comments

More Acronyms

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

Isn't IRIN the OCHA newswire?

Re: More Acronyms

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Apparently so, which I suppose makes its inclusion in a list of IT resources somewhat suspect, but hey! I don't write 'em, I just translate 'em!

Cheers...

[skh-nnz.livejournal.com]

Maybe the site sokr.ru (http://sokr.ru) will help you in the future.
Here is example for you acronyms (http://sokr.ru/?text=%EA%F0%E8%F1&where=abbr&exact=on).

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. Actually, I use sokr.ru all the time, and I'm pretty sure this has been added since the time of my original post, since otherwise, I would not have gone to all of that extra trouble. :^)

Cheers...