Open Standards, Bridge Continents, Markets and Cultures

Andrzej Zydroń,

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

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 Zydroń• azydron@xtm-intl.com• http://www.xtm-intl.com