Christian Lieske

Input/Contributions so far: Bryan Schnabel, Lucía Morado Vázquez, DimitraAnastasiou

Draft 08 October 2010

The XLIFF TC‘s Summary of the First XLIFF Symposium

Visual Impressions

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More (along with additional material) soon at http://www.localisation.ie/xliff/

The XLIFF TC‘s Summary

General

Preparation Participation Contributions

Takeaways

CriticalVoices

General Inputto Our Work

Specific Inputto Our Work Other

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General – Thanks for the Preparation

To the minds who „invented“ the Symposium• Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, and Reinhard Schäler for suggesting the event.

To the Local Organizers at Limerick's Carlton Castletroy Park hotel• For everything – including the dinner• For accommodating last minutes changes (e.g. absences of Tony O'Dowd and lacking time for Andrzej

Zydron)• Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, Eoin Ó Conchúir, Karl Kelly, Geraldine Harrahill

To the Scientific Committee• For suggesting a programme scheme that encompassed a key note, presentations, panel discussions,

posters, a pencha kucha (series of 7 mintues talks)• For reviewing the submissions• Bryan Schnabel (XLIFF TC Chair, Tektronix), Yves Savourel (ENLASO Corporation), David Filip

(Moravia IT a.s.), Jesús Torres del Rey (Universidad de Salamanca), Reinhard Schäler (LocalisationResearch Centre), Dimitra Anastasiou (Localisation Research Centre), Lucía Morado Vázquez(Localisation Research Centre)

To the submitters of proposals• For submitting more than 20 proposals• For accepting the offer to talk (most accepted and were able to travel to Limerick)

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General – Participation

More than 70 participants attended the first everXLIFF-only event

Quite a number did not just attend the symposiumsince it was a pre-conference event to the 15thLRC Conference

Attendees came from any of our planet's continentis an indicator for XLIFF's proliferation

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General – Contributions (1/2)

Welcome address: Reinhard Schäler, director of the LRC

Key note: Bryan Schnabel, current chair of the XLIFF Technical Committee

5 plenary sessions, 2 panels, 4 parallel sessions, 5 short presentations, 2 posters

Detailed XLIFF knowledge reflected in all talks

XLIFF shortcomings discussed open and the constructively

High level of audience participation

Intense, sometimes heated questions/discussions

Outreach work• Finished

• e.g. a text in the "Director's Column" from JoAnn Hackos, and an LRC Press-Release LRC Lucía Morado Vázquez• Planned

• e.g. the photos, presentations and videos soon available on the Symposium webpage at www.localisation.ie/xliff

DITA presentation qualified as Interoperability event

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General – Contributions (2/2)

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Type Presenter(s) TitlePlenarySessions Reinhard Schäler (Welcome)

Bryan Schnabel (Keynote speaker) XLIFF's Place in the Community

Asanka Wasala, Dag Schmidtke, Reinhard Schäler XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison

Asgeir Frimannsson, Christian Lieske Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend

JoAnn Hackos, Bryan Schnabel, Rodolfo Raya DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage

Panels Moderator: Christian Lieske; Panellists: Asgeir Frimannsson, ChristianLieske, Stefan Pries, Friedel Wolff Minimal and modular XLIFFModerator: David Filip; Panellists: Gábor Ugray, Lorcan Ryan, Heiko Rölke,Dag Schmidtke, David Filip XLIFF metadata throughout workflows

ParallelSessions Niall Murphy The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle

Felix Sasaki, Christian Lieske XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage

Martin Beuster, Gábor Ugray XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format?

Steve Dept, Andrea Ferrari, Britta Upsing, Heiko Rölke Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECD-studyShortPresentations Micah Bly XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality

Shirley Coady Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through the Integration ofXLIFF with Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory and Terminology

Friedel Wolff XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view

Derek CoffeyGlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use of XLIFF as aninterchange format

Thomas Vackier The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2

Posters Jörg Schütz, Alexandra Weissgerber Localising Business Process Repository Content

Naoto Nishio, Ian O’Keeffe, J.J. Collins Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF

Takeaways – Critical Voices

No tool supports all of what's inXLIFF 1.2 (implied that XLIFF 1.2is too feature-rich, and unwieldy)

Get XLIFF 2.0 to us rathersooner than later

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Takeaways – General Input to Our Work

Acceptance and a desire for conformance/compliance guidelines

Vast support for modular and minimal architecture

Wide range, differences of opinions on what exactly should be in the *coremodule(s)*

Pleas for backward compatibility

Extensibility needs to be examined and perhaps diminished or

Better mechanism to include binary information should be explored

Wide range of usage scenarios

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Takeaways – Specific Input to Our Work (1/2)

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Type Title Takeaways

PlenarySessions

XLIFF's Place in the Community

XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison

Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend

DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage

PanelsMinimal and modular XLIFF

XLIFF metadata throughout workflows

ParallelSessions The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle

XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage

XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format?Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECD-study

Input to be gathered via

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/Consolidated%20Takesaways%20from%20First%20XLIFF%20Symposium

Takeaways – Specific Input to Our Work (2/2)

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Type Title Takeaways

ShortPresentations XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality

Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through theIntegration of XLIFF with Advanced LeveragingTranslation Memory and Terminology

XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view

GlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use ofXLIFF as an interchange format

The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2

Posters Localising Business Process Repository Content

Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF

Input to be gathered via

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/Consolidated%20Takesaways%20from%20First%20XLIFF%20Symposium

Takeaways – Other

Proposal to have additionalsymposiums (next inPoland, and we even heardsomebody mentionBangalore in subsequentyears)

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