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Christian Lieske
Input/Contributions so far: Bryan Schnabel, Lucía Morado Vázquez, DimitraAnastasiou
Draft 08 October 2010
The XLIFF TC‘s Summary of the First XLIFF Symposium
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More (along with additional material) soon at http://www.localisation.ie/xliff/
The XLIFF TC‘s Summary
General
Preparation Participation Contributions
Takeaways
CriticalVoices
General Inputto Our Work
Specific Inputto Our Work Other
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General – Thanks for the Preparation
To the minds who „invented“ the Symposium• Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, and Reinhard Schäler for suggesting the event.
To the Local Organizers at Limerick's Carlton Castletroy Park hotel• For everything – including the dinner• For accommodating last minutes changes (e.g. absences of Tony O'Dowd and lacking time for Andrzej
Zydron)• Lucía Morado Vázquez, Dimitra Anastasiou, Eoin Ó Conchúir, Karl Kelly, Geraldine Harrahill
To the Scientific Committee• For suggesting a programme scheme that encompassed a key note, presentations, panel discussions,
posters, a pencha kucha (series of 7 mintues talks)• For reviewing the submissions• Bryan Schnabel (XLIFF TC Chair, Tektronix), Yves Savourel (ENLASO Corporation), David Filip
(Moravia IT a.s.), Jesús Torres del Rey (Universidad de Salamanca), Reinhard Schäler (LocalisationResearch Centre), Dimitra Anastasiou (Localisation Research Centre), Lucía Morado Vázquez(Localisation Research Centre)
To the submitters of proposals• For submitting more than 20 proposals• For accepting the offer to talk (most accepted and were able to travel to Limerick)
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General – Participation
More than 70 participants attended the first everXLIFF-only event
Quite a number did not just attend the symposiumsince it was a pre-conference event to the 15thLRC Conference
Attendees came from any of our planet's continentis an indicator for XLIFF's proliferation
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General – Contributions (1/2)
Welcome address: Reinhard Schäler, director of the LRC
Key note: Bryan Schnabel, current chair of the XLIFF Technical Committee
5 plenary sessions, 2 panels, 4 parallel sessions, 5 short presentations, 2 posters
Detailed XLIFF knowledge reflected in all talks
XLIFF shortcomings discussed open and the constructively
High level of audience participation
Intense, sometimes heated questions/discussions
Outreach work• Finished
• e.g. a text in the "Director's Column" from JoAnn Hackos, and an LRC Press-Release LRC Lucía Morado Vázquez• Planned
• e.g. the photos, presentations and videos soon available on the Symposium webpage at www.localisation.ie/xliff
DITA presentation qualified as Interoperability event
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General – Contributions (2/2)
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Type Presenter(s) TitlePlenarySessions Reinhard Schäler (Welcome)
Bryan Schnabel (Keynote speaker) XLIFF's Place in the Community
Asanka Wasala, Dag Schmidtke, Reinhard Schäler XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison
Asgeir Frimannsson, Christian Lieske Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend
JoAnn Hackos, Bryan Schnabel, Rodolfo Raya DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage
Panels Moderator: Christian Lieske; Panellists: Asgeir Frimannsson, ChristianLieske, Stefan Pries, Friedel Wolff Minimal and modular XLIFFModerator: David Filip; Panellists: Gábor Ugray, Lorcan Ryan, Heiko Rölke,Dag Schmidtke, David Filip XLIFF metadata throughout workflows
ParallelSessions Niall Murphy The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle
Felix Sasaki, Christian Lieske XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage
Martin Beuster, Gábor Ugray XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format?
Steve Dept, Andrea Ferrari, Britta Upsing, Heiko Rölke Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECD-studyShortPresentations Micah Bly XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality
Shirley Coady Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through the Integration ofXLIFF with Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory and Terminology
Friedel Wolff XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view
Derek CoffeyGlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use of XLIFF as aninterchange format
Thomas Vackier The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2
Posters Jörg Schütz, Alexandra Weissgerber Localising Business Process Repository Content
Naoto Nishio, Ian O’Keeffe, J.J. Collins Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF
Takeaways – Critical Voices
No tool supports all of what's inXLIFF 1.2 (implied that XLIFF 1.2is too feature-rich, and unwieldy)
Get XLIFF 2.0 to us rathersooner than later
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Takeaways – General Input to Our Work
Acceptance and a desire for conformance/compliance guidelines
Vast support for modular and minimal architecture
Wide range, differences of opinions on what exactly should be in the *coremodule(s)*
Pleas for backward compatibility
Extensibility needs to be examined and perhaps diminished or
Better mechanism to include binary information should be explored
Wide range of usage scenarios
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Takeaways – Specific Input to Our Work (1/2)
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Type Title Takeaways
PlenarySessions
XLIFF's Place in the Community
XLIFF and LCX Format: A Comparison
Next Generation XLIFF: Simplify - Clarify - and Extend
DITA and XLIFF: A Great Marriage
PanelsMinimal and modular XLIFF
XLIFF metadata throughout workflows
ParallelSessions The route to XLIFF adoption in Oracle
XLIFF and ITS: A secret marriage
XLIFF as a potential TM exchange format?Case study: XLIFF in a large-scale international OECD-study
Input to be gathered via
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/Consolidated%20Takesaways%20from%20First%20XLIFF%20Symposium
Takeaways – Specific Input to Our Work (2/2)
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Type Title Takeaways
ShortPresentations XLIFFs in Theory and in Reality
Increasing Quality in the Translation Process through theIntegration of XLIFF with Advanced LeveragingTranslation Memory and Terminology
XLIFF from a volunteer's point of view
GlobalSight as a case study in the deployment and use ofXLIFF as an interchange format
The problem of extensibility in XLIFF 1.2
Posters Localising Business Process Repository Content
Taxonomy of localisation services with XLIFF
Input to be gathered via
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/Consolidated%20Takesaways%20from%20First%20XLIFF%20Symposium
Takeaways – Other
Proposal to have additionalsymposiums (next inPoland, and we even heardsomebody mentionBangalore in subsequentyears)
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