DITA Translation SC - updated multilingual best practices doc and DITAexamples

Hi,

I'm attaching the latest version of
the multilingual best practices document. as well as DITA versions of the
examples provided by Nick.  Do we need output versions of the examples
as well as source versions to illustrate our points about ultilingual content?

   

Nancy

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Nancy Harrison

IBM Rational Software

Phone: 781-676-2535



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[dita-translation] DITA Translation
Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 29 January 2007

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Gershon L Joseph

Director of Technology and Single Sourcing

Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd.

Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee

Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee

office: +972-8-974-1569

mobile: +972-57-314-1170

web:    http://www.tech-tav.com

DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 29 January 2007

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 29 January 2007 at 08:00am
PT

for 40 minutes.

1)  Roll Call

    Present:

        Gershon Joseph (chair, since JoAnn is at California
DITA Boot Camp)

        Kevin Farwell

        Nick Rosenthal

        Nancy Harrison

        Robert Anderson

        Don Day

        Andrzej Zydron

    Regrets:

        JoAnn Hackos

2)  Accept Minutes from 22 January 2007

    Accepted. [Gershon moved, Nancy seconded, no objections]

3)  Review open action items

    3.1 ACTION: Gershon to investigate whether he can use a client's
samples.

        CONTINUED. (client is awaiting legal OK)

    3.2 ACTION: Nancy to incorporate the review input and submit
updated BP doc

        for review.

        COMPLETED.

    3.3 ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best
practice document

        Felix Sasaki provided input regarding Japanese.
Andrzej to revise

        BP document to include this new information.

        COMPLETED.

    3.4 ACTION: Gershon and Don will present the approved best
practices on

        indexing and Translation Memory as committee
drafts for approval by the DITA

        Technical Committee.

        ON HOLD (until DITA TC closes 1.1 spec)

    3.5 ACTION: Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted
on 13 November

        (subject: Document from Christian Lieske).

        CONTINUED [we hope to discuss next week]

    3.6 ACTION: Don to raise glossary work item at the TC after
the 1.1 draft to

        see if it needs its own subcommittee.

        ON HOLD (until DITA TC closes 1.1 spec)

    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn will contact Carol Geyer to discuss the
possibility of a 

        maintenance mode for the committee.

        CONTINUED (JoAnn not on conf call this week).

4) Returning business:

4.1 Review the new draft of the Multi-language Best Practice (Nancy Harrison)

    Nancy led the committee through the changes

    ACTION: Nancy to update the document according to review
input during the

    meeting and to add marked up DITA examples into the document.

    

    Gershon: Let's plan to review and approve this BP next meeting.

4.2 Review the new draft of the conref best practice (Andrzej Zydron)

    Andrzej led the committee through the changes. 

    ACTION: Andrzej to update the conref BP doc for vote next
week.

--out of time. Meeting adjourned at 9:00--

5)  New business:

    Continue discussion of a new charter for the committee going
forward.

multilingual-best-practices.doc

example3.dita

example1.dita

example2.dita