DITA Translation Subcommittee Agenda -- 21 May 2007

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Note from JoAnn: I'm going to 
be at a customer's site on Monday at 11 am EDT. I will try to call in to get the 
meeting started but I won't be able to stay more than 10-15 minutes. 

1)  Roll Call

 

2)  Accept Minutes from 7 
May 2007 . Gershon will send

 

3)  Review open action items

 

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

        Gershon will assemble all the 
examples into the template for the TC

 

        
CONTINUED. Awaiting legal OK; Gershon is 
selecting items for use in the Best Practice.

 

    3.2 ACTION: Gershon and Don will 
present the approved best practices 
on
        indexing, conrefs, Translation Memory, and multilanguage as committee 
drafts for approval by the DITA
        
Technical Committee.

 

        CONTINUED. 
Gershon to complete marking up in DITA XML and complete OASIS 

        customization and deliver to TC 
for review

 

        Don asked 
Gershon to make new Wiki page with links to the latest drafts 

        of the Translation SC BPs for 
review.

 

    3.5 ACTION: Rodolfo will continue to 
work on the Best Practice for XLIFF

        
CONTINUED.

 

 

    3.6 ACTION: JoAnn will try writing the sort order 
addition to the indexing 
        Best 
Practice for review.

        
CONTINUED.

 

    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn will contact Richard Ischida to 
get clarification on the need for a pronunciation element

            or 
attribute for the acronym proposal.

 

        IN PROGRESS -- note sent 
to Richard. JoAnn raised the issue at the OASIS Symposium with the 
Accessibilty

        working group headed by 
Peter Brunet from IBM. They are working on accessibility for ODF. Suggested 
that

        DITA be included in the 
accessibility discussions. No response as 
yet.

 

4)  Returning business:

 

    4.1 Review latest version of Andrzej and Rodolfo's  acronym 
proposal.
 
    4.2 Discuss Rodolfo's  proposed additions to 
the Indexing best 
practice. 
         

 

5)  New business:

 

     5.1 JoAnn report 
on work on acronym specialization

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services, 
Inc.
710 Kipling 
Street, Suite 400
Denver CO 80215
303-232-7586


 

 

 

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services, 
Inc.
710 Kipling 
Street, Suite 400
Denver CO 80215
303-232-7586