OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC

Hi Dimitra,



This is very informative. Sincere thanks to you and Reinhard for
undertaking this task. The results are very interesting. Perhaps I'm slightly a
victim of interpreting the results to suit my own biases, but the themes that I
noticed to be consistent were: simplify; provide clear compliance
specifications; retain the solid core - but jettison some of the complex,
tool-specific fluff; and get the word out to tool-makers because more/consistent
support is needed.



I could almost imagine a subcommittee whose charter is: come up
with a specific recommendation to the TC on how to. . . 

" simplify / provide compliance spec / jettison fluff /
inform tool-makers "



I look forward to how other interprate these results.



Thanks so much for this work, and for sharing,



Bryan









From: Dimitra.Anastasiou
[mailto:dimitra.anastasiou@ul.ie]

Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:25 AM

To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: [xliff] XLIFF questionnaire results







Dear members of the XLIFF TC,



I conducted an XLIFF questionnaire and
I am attaching both the questionnaire
and its results. The file consists of 8 sheets corresponding to the 8 questions
of the questionnaire.

I am not good at all at presenting
statistics, so, any suggestions about how and where this can be used are
welcome.

There are some good thoughts in sheets
6 and 7. 



Regards,

Dimitra



Dimitra Anastasiou, PhD

Post-doc Researcher 

http://www.d-anastasiou.com

email: Dimitra.Anastasiou@ul.ie

SKYPE: dimitraanas



Localisation Research Centre: http://www.localisation.ie


Centre for Next Generation
Localisation: http://www.cngl.ie/

Lucia and Dimitra,

This looks very exciting. I will support this in any way I can. I will put this on the XLIFF meeting agenda so see if we can get some of these items acted upon.  Thank to the two of you, and Reinhard for making this happen.

- Bryan

________________________________________
From: Lucia.Morado [lucia.morado@ul.ie]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:59 AM
To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xliff] XLIFF Symposium

Dear TC members,

We would like to ask for your collaboration in the organisation of the 1st International XLIFF Symposium.
We welcome any suggestions, so please contact us if you have any idea on this matter.
Here are some points we would like to address:
1. Agree on the name of the event: “First International XLIFF Symposium”.
2. Establish a scientific committee who will be reviewing the papers and decide the main topic directions of the symposium. If you are interested in taking part of the scientific committee, please send us an email indicating your interest.
3. Decide the topic for the “call for papers”. Some proposals:

 1.  Present and future of XLIFF
 2.  Implementation of XLIFF in commercial tools
 3.  Relation with other standards
 4.  Case studies
 5.  XLIFF from the user point of view
 6.  XLIFF in OS projects
 7.  XLIFF 2.0
 8.  Authoring for XLIFF - OAXAL and internationalisation
 9.  Support for the process of translation through XLIFF
 10. Integration of terminology and translation memory into XLIFF
 11. XLIFF beyond description - representing action in digital products
 12. XLIFF-TMX-MLIF interaction

3. Keynote speaker. Maybe Bryan Schnabel (chair of the TC)?

Here is the schedule to organize the symposium:

Date(s)

Action

Until 20th Feb.

Organise the scientific committee and decide the topics for the call for papers.

20th Feb to 28th Feb.

The webpage will be created and tested.

1st March

We launch the call for papers. The deadline for papers is 15th May.

15th May  to 1st July

Review of the proposals and preparation of the programme.

15th July

The final programme is announced. Final webpage is launched.

22nd September

The symposium takes place!


We would like to thank you in advance for your collaboration in this event.

Regards,

Dimitra and Lucía