LISA Forum Asia

CHINA FOCUS

Outsourcing Globalization and IT Services to China

How to Maximize the Use of Localization Industry Standards

09:00 - 17:00 : Thursday, March 13, 2008

Workshop Program

Welcome and Introduction

• Who's who?
• What do we want from this workshop?

Why Standards?

• De facto standards
• Open standards
• The standards process
• Main Standards bodies providing Localization Industry Standards
  • W3C
  • ISO
  • Unicode Consortium
  • OASIS
  • LISA OSCAR
  • OLIF

Why XML?

• The road to XML
• The effect of XML on standards

Different types of Localization Industry Standards

• Encoding
• Descriptive
• Exchange
• Interoperability
• Reuse

Encoding Standards

• Character sets

  History of character sets ASCII to Windows code page 1252 MBCS: multi-byte character sets Unicode & UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 Unicode normalization forms GB18030 and its implications for doing business in China

• Locales
  • Definition
  • Usage
  • Locale-dependent functions

Different types of Localization Industry Standards

• W3C ITS
  • History and evolution
  • Current status

Exchange Standards

• Introduction to Localization Industry Exchange Standards
  • TMX - Translation Memory eXchange
  • SRX - Segmentation Rules eXchange
  • TBX - TermBase eXchange
  • GMX - Global Information Management eXchange
  • XLIFF - XML Localization Interchange File Format
  • OLIF - Open Lexicon Interchange Format
• TMX - Translation Memory eXchange
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples
• SRX - Segmentation Rules eXchange
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples
• TBX - TermBase eXchange
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Variants: TBX Lite, TBX eXtra Lite
  • Examples
• GMX - Global Information Management eXchange
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
    • GMX-V - Volume
    • GMX-C - Complexity
    • GMX-Q - Quality
• GMX-V - Global Information Management eXchange Volume
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples
• XLIFF - XML Localization Interchange File Format
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples
• OLIF - Open Lexicon Interchange Format
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples

Interoperability

• Translation Web Services
  • History and evolution
  • Current status
  • Document structure
  • Implementation Guidelines
  • Examples

Reuse

• DITA - Darwin Information Typing Architecture
• xml:tm - XML Text Memory

DITA - Darwin Information Typing Architecture

• History and evolution
• Current status
• Document structure
• Implementation Guidelines
• Examples

xml:tm - XML Text Memory

• History and evolution
• Current status
• Document structure
• Implementation Guidelines
• Examples

Putting it all together

Having presented all of the various types of standard we will put together an architecture that shows how the various standards interact and cooperate with one another.