Fw: DITA Translation SC best practices

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

Here is a response about due process for the DITA Translation
Subcommittee's best practices. The process would appear to be
straightforward: get the TC's approval on each practice as a Committee
Draft, upload the approved docs to the TC's documents area, then reference
the URL (or copy/paste the content) in an appropriate topic at the DITA
Focus Area.

There is already a category for Translation (empty at present) under the
DITA Knowledge Base/Production area of the site:
http://dita.xml.org/production-publishing .

Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot
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Hi Don,

  A subcommittee can't officially sanction any documents; what needs to
happen
is for the subcommittee to pass it on to the TC as a recommendation and
then the
TC can vote on it and adopt it as a Committee Draft. It should be visible
from
the TC public pages, and I certainly think it should be posted on the focus
area
site! I know that there's been folks from the XLiff TC participating in
this
work as well; they may want to post a link to this doc from their site as
well.

Congrats!

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:16 PM
> To: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org; mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Subject: DITA Translation SC best practices
>
> The DITA Translation Subcommittee has several best practices
> queued up for publishing soon.  Where is the best place to do
> so?  I assume that a record copy should be in their SC
> documents database, and that we can post the documents
> themselves to the dita.xml.org site somewhere for high public
> visibility. What is your recommendation?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Don Day
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> IBM Lead DITA Architect
> Email: dond@us.ibm.com
> 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
> Phone: +1 512-838-8550
> T/L: 678-8550
>
> "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
>  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
>    --T.S. Eliot
>