OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee-- Agenda 4 February 2008

Hello Translation 
SC Members,

 

We have a very important 
meeting scheduled for Monday 4 February. Please everyone try to 
attend.

 

Please find the agenda on the Subcommittee 
wiki

 

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TranslationSubcommittee

 

For 
observer's, see the Agenda at the end of this email.

 

We need 
to vote  on the integrated Glossary/Terminology and Acronym 
proposals before the TC Meeting on Tuesday 5 
February.

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26990/IssueGlossary12026.html

 

I've also enclosed it here.

 

JoAnn

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8:00-8:05 Roll call PDT 

1) Roll Call 

2) Approve minutes from previous business meeting: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/email/archives/200801/msg00025.html 

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; need to add the examples to the 
  Multilanguage Best Practice. CONTINUED. Awaiting legal OK; Gershon is 
  selecting items for use in the Best Practice. Decision to submit the BP to the 
  TC for review without these items and we'll update them after Gershon gets 
  approval from his client, since it's going to take a while. 
  
3.2 ACTION: Gershon and Don 
  will present the approved best practices on 
  
    
indexing, conrefs, and 
    multilanguage as committee drafts for approval by the DITA Technical 
    Committee. 
3.5 ACTION: Rodolfo and Bryan Schnabel 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. 
    COMPLETED. 
    
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/email/archives/200802/msg00003.html

  
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 Accessibility 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. 

Business: 

4.1 Gershon report on status of the Conref Best 
Practice at the TC http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/ See 18 November 2007 document 

4.2 Gershon report on the status of the 
Multilanguage Best Practice final format 

4.3 JoAnn report on the Indexing Best Practice final format and revisions 

4.4 Vote on the combined glossary and acronym 
proposal. 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26990/IssueGlossary12026.html 

5) New business: 

Discuss possible Best Practice on handling 
acronyms in translation. 

8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens 

8:55 Adjourn 
None 

8:50-8:55 Announcements/Opens 

8:55 Adjourn 

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


 

 

AcronymGlossaryProposal.doc

IndexingBestPracticesWhitePaper.doc