Brooks [wsrp-wsia] 10/15/2002: Internationalization and Localization

[Monica Martin <mmartin@certivo.net>]

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 
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Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309
http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
[Monica Martin]
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-----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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