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OAXAL – How to make sense of Localization Open Standards LRC Conference, September 2012
Why Standards?
Why have Standards?
Why have Standards?
Standards = Uniform Data
ISO Standard
Standards = Efficiency
Standards = Lower Costs
Standards = Safe to Implement
Standards = Greater Interoperability
Standards: Unforeseen Benefits
Standards: Unforeseen Benefits
Standards: Misuse
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Standards: Abuse
Standards: Sabotage
• Sabotaged Standards: • Proprietary extensions • Bad implementations
Core L10 Interoperability 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)
• Unicode TR29
Putting It All Together
• Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL)
– http://wiki.oasis-open.org/oaxal/FrontPage
OAXAL
OAXAL
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
translate translated text
target text target 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
Flagship website
Flagship website
Browser-Based Workbench
OAXAL In Action
• Contact details: • Andrzej Zydroń • [email protected] • http://www.xtm-intl.com
