DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 21 May 2007

[Gershon L Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>]

Hi all. Apologies for the late delivery of these minutes.

Please try to review the acronym best practice ahead of today's meeting so we can approve it.

Thanks,
Gershon

 

Gershon L Joseph
Director of Technology and Single Sourcing
Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd.

 

Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee
Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee

 

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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 21 May 2007

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday 21 May 2007
at 8:00 PT for 60 minutes.

1)  Roll Call
 
2)  Accept Minutes from 7 May 2007
    
    Accepted.
 
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
 
        CONTINUED. [Gershon to mark up part of their document in DITA and submit
        for legal approval]
 
    3.2 ACTION: Gershon and Don will present the approved best practices on
        indexing, conrefs, Translation Memory, and multilanguage documents
        as committee drafts for approval by the DITA Technical Committee.
 
        CONTINUED. Gershon to complete marking up in DITA XML and complete OASIS
        customization and deliver to TC for review
 
        Don asked Gershon to make new Wiki page with links to the latest drafts
        of the Translation SC BPs for review.
 
    3.5 ACTION: Rodolfo 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.
 
        CONTINUED.
 
    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn will contact Richard Ishida 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.

        Erik Hennum is working on this and it's almost ready. When it's ready 
        JoAnn will pass on to the SC for review.
 
4)  Returning business:
 
    4.1 Review latest version of Andrzej and Rodolfo's  acronym proposal.

        Andrzej sent out updated draft for review.
        Andrzej walked the SC through the latest changes.

        Robert is OK with the changes. He's waiting for Kara to respond to 
        the proposal.

        ACTION: Gershon to request SC to review the HTML file and Robert
        to try to get Kara's feedback on the article.
 
    4.2 Discuss Rodolfo's proposed additions to the Indexing best practice. 
        
5)  New business:
 
     5.1 JoAnn report on work on acronym specialization