The document discusses open standards for localization and translation. It describes how standards enable greater interoperability, efficiency, and lower costs. It presents OAXAL, an open architecture for XML authoring and localization that uses various standards like XLIFF and TBX. OAXAL allows localization of content like English soccer articles into other languages around the clock in a browser-based workbench.

1. Open Standards, Bridge Continents, Markets and Cultures
Andrzej Zydroń,
March 2014

2. Why Standards?

3. Why have Standards?

4. Why have Standards?

5. Why have Standards?

6. Why have Standards?

7. ISO Standard

8. Standards = Efficiency

9. Standards = Lower Costs

10. Standards = Safe to Implement

11. Standards = Greater Interoperability

12. Standards: Unforeseen Benefits

13. Standards: Misuse
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14. Standards: Abuse

15. Standards: Sabotage
• Sabotaged Standards:
• Proprietary extensions
• Bad implementations

17. 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

18. Putting It All Together

19. • Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL)
– http://wiki.oasis-open.org/oaxal/FrontPage

20. OAXAL 2.0

21. OAXAL 2.0

22. OAXAL Benefits
• SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Open Architecture
• Open Standards - Open APIs
• Easy Exchange
• Modular design
• Interoperability
• Very high level of automation

23. Localization without Standards
Customer
source
text
source text extract extracted
text tm process
prepared
text
translatetranslated
text
target texttarget text
merge
target text
QA

24. True Cost of Translation

25. OAXAL in Action

26. Translating English Soccer
Articles into Arabic 24x7

27. Translating English Soccer
Articles into Arabic 24x7

28. Browser-Based Workbench

29. OAXAL In Action

30. 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

31. 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

32. • http://www.linport.org
• Interoprability Now! merges with Linport

33. • Contact details:
• Andrzej Zydroń
• azydron@xtm-intl.com
• http://www.xtm-intl.com