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Subject: Brooks [wsrp-wsia] 10/15/2002: Internationalization and Localization
A couple of points, Rex. See inline. -----Original Message----- From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:55 AM To: wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [wsrp-wsia] Internationalization, localization Due to a thread on the tm-published subjects list, it came to my attention that there is another fairly significant standards organization in this unfortunately burgeoning field, which has promulgated yet another new e-commerce catalog of Products and Services, the Universal Standard Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC) which has had a Topic Map rendered for it. The url below is to the standard, not the XTM. http://www.eccma.org/download/11UNSPSC.zip However, it turns out that this spec is legally owned by the UN: [Monica Martin] The UN/SPSC is a broad product categorization mechanism such as for Information Technology and Electronic Components. There has been a close collaboration between the UN/SPSC folks, RosettaNet and UNDP. I believe that the 'home' for the UN/SPSC, as you indicated, will reside with UNDP and be closely coordinated (at least for EC and IT inputs) with RosettaNet. The RosettaNet Technical Dictionary team has been working very closely with this effort. _____ Just a word of warning as you have obviously not been reading the Diffuse newsletters recently :-( There has been a lot of argument about who controls the UNSPCS over the last few months, and since the beginning of this month the standard has clearly been under the control of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) rather than ECCMA. A new body is being set up to manage the list. All references to the list should now be made through their website at www.un-spsc.net Martin Bryan Technical Manager, The Diffuse Project _____ Do you know anything about this Monica? However, on a more useful and less contentious note, all this led me to an actually International Guide to Internationalization / Localization http://www.diffuse.org/IntLocGuide.html [Monica Martin] I can get you some more details for you on this effort that you referenced below. Will do so and try to get some feedback before Thursday meeting, although I am not certain what if any focus is on Web Services (not saying there isn't but I do not have specific details). I can't vouch for either ECCMA, (which includes H-P, SAP, Lucent, Oracle and a gazillion others but does not include on their current list of members IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and a number of other notables I won't bother listing), or diffuse.org, though it looks at a completely cursory level as if diffuse is a bit more unbiased, but in any event, it is best to keep apprised of such things, especially those who have some interest in promoting UDDI as the de facto look up list for web services. Since diffuse is connected to IST. and this appears to be the European Community's equivalent to OASIS, I am including their url below: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html [Monica Martin] As an additional input, I have forwarded herein the input I sent to Rich Thompson in this regard yesterday. See below within **** in red. Ciao, Rex -- Rex Brooks Starbourne Communications Design 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com [Monica Martin] ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************* -----Original Message----- From: Monica Martin Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:45 PM To: 'richt2@us.ibm.com' Cc: Monica Martin Subject: Thompson 10/14/2002: [xliff] Presentation Rich, This is a good brief on XLIFF and its functions, which could serve as an input to any discussion on internationalization and localization. Note the sections on: 1. Localized objects 2. <group> element 3. Translatable content in a web browser 4. Case study from DGW+Berlitz-It that uses a web service. Regards. Monica -----Original Message----- From: Yves Savourel [mailto:ysavourel@translate.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:12 PM To: XLIFF list Subject: [xliff] Presentation Hi all, Attached: the final version of the slides that has been sent to LISA. Cheers, -yves [Monica Martin] ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ *************************
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