OASIS DITA Translation Subcomittee Agenda -- 11 August 2008

Hello Translation SC 
Members,

Please find the agenda 
for the 11 August 
2008 meeting on the Subcommittee wiki

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

 I have also copied the 
agenda below. 

JoAnn

8:00-8:05am Roll call 
PDT 

1) Roll Call 

2) Approve minutes from 
previous business meeting: 

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: Rodolfo and 
Bryan Schnabel will continue to work on the Best Practice for XLIFF 

CONTINUED.  

Business: 

4.1 Final 
review of the acronym/glossary best practice document. 

JoAnn incorporated Kara's edits and reviewed the entire 
document. A few questions remain in the text. Please review and be prepared to 
discuss. We need some clarification on the composition tools 
item.

4.2 Plans for the XLIFF/DITA joint webinar. 

See the attached summary 
document.

4.3  Continued discussion of the translate attribute 
and “partial” translations

Recall that DITA processing does not act on the 
xml:lang attribute. 

See notes:

“Many elements in DITA 
include a translate attribute. It has a value of yes or no. We've been using it 
in a way similar to the filterable attributes (platform, audience, otherprops, 
etc.). Before sending our files out for translation, we remove all the content 
that is marked as translate="no".

 As an aside, I'm 
surprised that the translate attribute isn't filterable like 
audience.

Anyway, translate yes/no 
is good for simple situations, but for more complex situations it fails. For 
example, if you have a topic that is translated into some, but not all languages 
(a "partial" translation), you can't set translate="no" on it, since, in some 
cases, it should be translated.”

Note from Felix 
Sasaki

you could use a mechanism like ITS "Localization Note" 
for this. See the definition at http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#locNote-datacat

and some BP about it at

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#DevLocNote

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#AuthLocNote

in 
your case having an attribute "locNote" which qualifies what kind of "partial" 
translation is needed could solve the problem.

Note that I'm not necessarily proposing to use ITS 
"Localization Note" 

natively, but I'm only pointing you to a potential 
approach to solve the issue.

 4.4  Discussion of 
information from Felix Sasaki 

The Internationalization 
Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published a Group Note of Best Practices for XML 
Internationalization. This document provides a set of guidelines for developing 
XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the 
best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML applications, as 
well as the author of XML content to create material in different languages. 

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/xml-i18n-bp.pdf

(reader-friendly PDF) 

Section 5 of the 
document "ITS Applied to Existing Formats"

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/#Modularization

contains a section about 
ITS and DITA

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/#dita 

Thanks a lot to the 
people on his list who gave feedback on drafts on this section, and this 
document in general. 

Felix 

5) New business: 

Do we continue this subcommittee after we complete the 
three remaining best practices documents: acronyms, glossary, 
multi-language?

9:00 Adjourn 

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Inc.
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AcronymBestPractice_07192008.doc

MultilingualBestPracticesWhitePaper_glj01.doc

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From: "Carol Geyer" <>

To: "Dee Schur" <>,"JoAnn Hackos" <>

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:09:58 -0600

Title: FW: [dita-users] OASIS to host two DITA/XLIFF Webinars

It would be great to follow up this bare-bones announcement with a message that

contains commentary from JoAnn or others involved in the webinars. Something

more editorial, along the lines of, "We're really excited about this webinar.

The speakers will include....John Doe will go into detail about...We'll feature

a look at the use case where... I highly recommend you attend this webinar if

you are interested in... There'll be plenty of time for Q&A"

It's those bloggy kinds of endorsements that really persuade people to attend.

--c

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From:  [mailto:] On Behalf

Of Carol Geyer

Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:23 AM

To: 

Cc: 'Dee Schur'

Subject: [dita-users] OASIS to host two DITA/XLIFF Webinars

OASIS will host two webinars on DITA and the XML Localisation Interchange File

Format (XLIFF). Both webinars are free and open to the public:

** 'DITA to XLIFF and Back - Reducing the Costs and Risks of Translating XML

Content' will present a business perspective on translating topic-oriented,

XML-based content. The webinar will include business cases developed by expert

panelists.

Thursday, 18 September, 2008, 11:00AM EDT, 15:00 GMT.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/991595229

<https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/991595229>

** 'DITA to XLIFF and Back - Understanding the Technical Solution' describes in

more technical terms how DITA can be used with XLIFF, which provides an

easy-to-use mechanism for packaging DITA files for translation and localization

providers. A real world 'end-to-end' enterprise implementation will be

demonstrated.

Tuesday, 23 September, 2008, 11:00AM EDT, 15:00 GMT.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/767210326

<https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/767210326>

For more information, please go to: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/

<http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/> 

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