DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 15 January 2007

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

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Gershon L Joseph
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Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee
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DITA Translation Subcommittee Meeting Minutes: 15 January 2007

(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)

The DITA Translation Subcommittee met on Monday, 15 January 2007 at 08:00am PT
for 1 hour 5 minutes.

1.  Roll call

    Present:
        Gershon Joseph
        JoAnn Hackos
        Nick Rosenthal
        Rodolfo Raya
        Robert Anderson
        Don Day
        Kevin Farwell
        Nancy Harrison

    Regrets:
        
2.  Accept Minutes from 8 January 2007

    Accepted (JoAnn moved, Robert seconded).

3.  Review open action items

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

        CONTINUED:
        Nancy sent the updated BP document to JoAnn and Gershon.
        Gershon and Bruce to submit two more examples based on two real-life use cases.

        SC began reviewing the BP document.

        ACTION: Nick to send examples to JoAnn.

        ACTION: Gershon to investigate whether he can use a client's samples.

        ACTION: Nancy to incorporate the review input and submit updated BP doc 
        for review.

    3.2 ACTION: Andrzej and Rodolfo to revise the conref best practice document

        CONTINUED. Felix Sasaki provided input regarding Japanese. Andrzej to revise 
        BP document to include this new information.

    3.3 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.

        ON HOLD (until DITA TC closes 1.1 spec)

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

        CONTINUED.

    3.5 ACTION: Everyone to review the document JoAnn posted on 13 November 
        (subject: Document from Christian Lieske).

        CONTINUED.

4)  Returning business:

    4.1 Review the new draft of the Indexing Best Practice.

        DECISION: JoAnn moves to accept Jan 15 document with Gershon's changes. Rodolfo 
        seconds. No objections.

        ACTION: Gershon to put TM and index BP docs on OASIS and send links to 
        TC. Don to include in future TC agenda.

    4.2 Review Felix Sasaki's comments about Japanese for conrefs. Ask Andrzej to 
        address to complete the conref best practice.

        COMPLETED (see action item 3.2 above).

-- Meeting adjourned at 9:05 --

5)  New business:

5.1 Discuss Translation SC Charter. Renew or end work of the SC.

5.2 Glossary proposal (Kara Warburton).

5.3 Attributes, acronyms, variables in translation (Howard Schwartz).

6.  Open:
    
    None.