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Subject: DITA Translation Subcommittee--Agenda for 8 January 2007
Hi Folks!.
Agenda for Monday 8 January 2007
11:00 am - 12:00 am Eastern
Standard Team DITA Technical Committee teleconference
+1-210-280-1707
PASSCODE:
185771
1) Roll
Call
2) Accept Minutes
from 4 December 2006
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/<http://ww
w.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-translation/>
Attached for guests and
observers.
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.
CONTINUED. Gershon and Bruce to submit two more exmaples based on two
real-life
use cases.
ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best practice document
CONTINUED, as follows:
* Rodolfo
to work with Andrzej to add section on
Japanese.
* Andrzej to add new
variables section, with examples. Nancy to provide
example
English text.
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
CONTINUED. Everyone please review for discussion next week.
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.
CONTINUED. Gershon posted the final BP document on the OASIS DITA TC
site
and asked TC members to
review it. TC will address it when it's next on
the TC agenda.
TC in agreement our BP documents should be broadly based, for usability
reasons.
Don: We could add a flag to indicate DITA-specific content.
JoAnn: Add purpose statement that it's best practice for DITA and some
of the content also applies to
other XML dialects.
ACTION: Gershon to add the statement to the BP document and discuss on TC.
COMPLETED.
ACTION:
JoAnn to ask Charles Pau and David Walters to review the
forthcoming best practices on conref, multi-language documents, and
others.
CONTINUED.
ACTION:
Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted on 13 November (subject:
Document from Christian Lieske).
CONTINUED.
4.1 Review the new draft of the Indexing Best Practice.
[I have been working from home because of the snow and did not have access to all of my notes. Gershon is also lookking at the draft to see if we have covered everything we discussed at the last meeting.]
4.2 Review of Nancy Harrison's examples of inline elements
5) New business:
Discuss proposals for new issues to be addressed in 2007
Glossary proposal (Kara Warburton)
Attributes, acronyms, variables in translation (Howard Schwartz)
"I was wondering how you and the committee were thinking about attributes in general during translation. If the attribute is in another file as a conref such as the example below and the translator gets the xml and sentence and doesn't see the variable or the acronym (ie ABS), won't that undermine the translator's ability to understand the sentence?"
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services,
Inc.
710 Kipling
Street, Suite 400
Denver CO 80215
303-232-7586
joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services,
Inc.
710 Kipling
Street, Suite 400
Denver CO 80215
303-232-7586
joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 12 December 2006
(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)
The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 12 December 2006 at 08:00am PT
for 1 hour, 25 minutes.
1. Roll call
Present:
Gershon Joseph
JoAnn Hackos
Bruce Esrig
Rodolfo Raya
Paul Grosso
Robert Anderson
Nancy Harrison
Don Day
Andrzej Zydron
Regrets:
Nick Rosenthal
2. Accept Minutes from 20 November 2006
Accepted (JoAnn moved, Nancy 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.
CONTINUED. Gershon and Bruce to submit two more exmaples based on two real-life
use cases.
ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best practice document
CONTINUED, as follows:
* Rodolfo to work with Andrzej to add section on Japanese.
* Andrzej to add new variables section, with examples. Nancy to provide example
English text.
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
CONTINUED. Everyone please review for discussion next week.
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.
CONTINUED. Gershon posted the final BP document on the OASIS DITA TC site
and asked TC members to review it. TC will address it when it's next on
the TC agenda.
TC in agreement our BP documents should be broadly based, for usability
reasons.
Don: We could add a flag to indicate DITA-specific content.
JoAnn: Add purpose statement that it's best practice for DITA and some
of the content also applies to other XML dialects.
ACTION: Gershon to add the statement to the BP document and discuss on TC.
COMPLETED.
ACTION: JoAnn to ask Charles Pau and David Walters to review the
forthcoming best practices on conref, multi-language documents, and others.
CONTINUED.
ACTION: Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted on 13 November (subject:
Document from Christian Lieske).
CONTINUED.
4 Returning business:
4.1 Review Paul Grosso's comments on the Indexing Best Practice.
Paul: Example 2 - transformed index term is confusing
Concensus: Replace the 2 nested index terms to two single-level index
terms
Example 3: Replace example with example using <p> with more than one
sentence.
Example 4: Add title to the example. It's a special case of example 2,
so it should follow example 2.
Example 5: Move the index term to prcede "properties". Also add intro
text to the example.
Paul: Think about moving the examples to the bullets, or reproduce the
bullet text in the examples.
ACTION: JoAnn and Gershon to update the BP document and submit to
list for review.
4.2 Review new drafts of the conref best practice
5. New Business:
None.
6. Open:
None.
-- Meeting adjourned at 9:25 --
Best Practice for Indexing DITA topics_07012007.doc
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