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Open Standards, Bridge Continents, Markets and Cultures
Andrzej Zydro,
March 2014
Why Standards?
Why have Standards?
Why have Standards?
Why have Standards?
Why have Standards?
ISO Standard
Standards = Efficiency
Standards = Lower Costs
Standards = Safe to Implement
Standards = Greater Interoperability
Standards: Unforeseen Benefits
Standards: Misuse
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Standards: Abuse
Standards: Sabotage
 Sabotaged Standards:
 Proprietary extensions
 Bad implementations
Open Standards
Core L10 Standards
 W3C ITS Document Rules
 ETSI LIS SRX
 ETSI LIS xml:tm
 ETSI LIS TMX
 ETSI LIS TBX
 ETSI LIS GMX
 OASIS XLIFF
 W3C/OASIS DITA (XHTML, DocBook, or any XML Vocabulary)
 Linport Interoperability: TIPP XLIFF:doc
Putting It All Together
 Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL)
 http://wiki.oasis-open.org/oaxal/FrontPage
OAXAL 2.0
OAXAL 2.0
OAXAL Benefits
 SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Open Architecture
 Open Standards - Open APIs
 Easy Exchange
 Modular design
 Interoperability
 Very high level of automation
Localization without Standards
Customer
source
text
source text extract extracted
text tm process
prepared
text
translatetranslated
text
target texttarget text
merge
target text
QA
True Cost of Translation
OAXAL in Action
Translating English Soccer
Articles into Arabic 24x7
Translating English Soccer
Articles into Arabic 24x7
Browser-Based Workbench
OAXAL In Action
Interoperability Now!/Linport
 XLIFF 1.2 implementation issues
 The broken promise
 Core fine
 Too many options
 Too many implementation issues
 Need to concentrate on the I for Interchange
 No way to package up translation assets
 The GOAL:
 To be able to round trip transparently between
different TMS/CAT tools
www.interoperability-now.org
Interoperability Now!/Linport
 Born out of frustration and necessity
 Early 2012
 Members
 Bioloom Group
 Kilgray
 Medtronic
 Ontram
 Spartan Software
 XTM-INTL
 The goal:
 True 100% roundtrip interoperability between
TMS/CAT tools
 May 2013 XTM International/Kilgray
 First 100% roundtripping
 http://www.linport.org
 Interoprability Now! merges with Linport
 Contact details:
 Andrzej Zydro
 azydron@xtm-intl.com
 http://www.xtm-intl.com

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