DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes -- 13 November 2006

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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 13 November 2006

(Recorded by JoAnn Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 13 November 2006 at 08:00am PT
for one hour.

1.  Roll call

    Present:
        Don Day
        Robert Anderson
        JoAnn Hackos
        Nancy Harrison
	Kevin Farwell
	Christian Lieske
	Bob Doyle

    Regrets:
	Gershon Joseph
	Andrzej Zydron
	Rodolfo Raya
   
        
        
2.  Accept Minutes from 6 November 2006

    Accepted (JoAnn moved, Gershon Robert seconded)

3.  Review open action items

    ACTION: Nancy to add a statement for inline multilingual content. Nancy and Bruce
    will try to find a new online example.

    CONTINUE.

    --ACTION-- Andrzej to revise the conref best practice document

    CONTINUE. (Rodolfo updating with Japanese)

    --ACTION--JoAnn to review the document from Christian Lieske on DITA and 
    translation

    COMPLETED.

    --ACTION--All committee members. Provide feedback on Robert Anderson’s new draft of the inline elements table
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20570/elementsOnePointOne.html

    CONTINUE.

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

    CONTINUE.

    --ACTION--JoAnn to ask Charles Pau and DAvid Walters to review the forthcoming best practices on conref,
    multi-language documents, and others.

4.  Returning business:

4.1 Review Nancy Harrison's draft of the Best Practice on multi-language documents.

    Positive feedback from the committee members to Nancy. Nancy will revise in the format that 
    we are using for best practices. Still need a good example of inline multilingual content.

4.2 Christian Lieske provided a slide presentation of the document prepared by Christian, Yves Savourel, and 
    Felix Sasaki to the tekom conference in Wiesbaden in November 2006. He reviewed the ITS working group
    recommendations for handling translation-specific attributes. The subcommittee members will review
    the paper. 

    Mary McRae was asked if the slides could be shared with the TC and the subcommittee. She believes that
    they should be made available initially to the subcommittee members. There should be no reason
    that the slides cannot be shared since they were presented at an OASIS event (the tekom sponsored
    Open Standards Day).
    

5. Continued business:

	Review Rodolfo’s XLIFF article outline at the Heartsome wiki address.

    http://www.heartsome.org/hswiki/DITA_XLIFF

    If anyone wants to add sections, comments or any idea, please go ahead and 
    change the wiki.



-- Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PST --