Re: Input to BP 10 http://www.w3.org/International/its/techniques/its-techniques.html#DevTerm

Hi Christian,

Lieske, Christian wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a look at "Best Practice 10: Indicate terminology-related elements".
>
> My high-level feedback is the following:
>
> 1.
>
> Quote>Define what elements are related to terminology information
>
> It may sound academic, but don't we really want to say "Define which element are related to designators?" (see ISO 1087).
>   

we have not used the term "designators" in the ITS spec, but have been 
rather informal about what terminology information is. So I would 
propose not to introduce "designators" here.

> 2.
>
> Quote>You should provide an ITS rules document where you use its:termRule elements
> Quote>to indicate which elements are "terms" and information related to them (e.g. definitions).
> Quote>
> Quote>This set of ITS rules indicates the following:
>
> I would suggest to rephrase this as "The set of ITS rules below indicates ..."
>   
+1
> 3. 
>
> Quote>The capability of specifying terms within the source content is important for terminology management that is beneficial to translation and localization quality.
>
> We discussed, if I remember correctly, that also source language quality and change management benefit from properly marking designators. You can for example match designators against material management repositories.
>
> 4. 
>
> Quote>Identified terms could be used for indexing that may require some language specific information. For example, Japanese words are sorted not by script characters, but by phonetic characters. Therefore when a Japanese index item is created, it should be accompanied with a phonetic string, called Yomigana.
>
> Hmm. Shouldn't this read: 
>
> 	Note: Often, indices need to contain more than the designators which have been marked in the text. In Japanese, for example ...
>
> 5. 
>
> Quote>As a result, terms may require various attributes, such as part of speech, gender, number, term types, definitions, notes on usage, etc. To avoid such a large attribute data is repeated within a document, it should be possible for identified terms to link to externalized attribute data, such as glossary documents and terminology database.
>
> We may want to find an alternative way to talk about "term-related information" (such as "gender" etc.). "attributes" may be confusing in an XML setting. How about "meta data" or "supplementary information"?
>   

in the ITS spec, we have "terminology information", "providing 
information about the term", ... to be in sync with this, "supplementary 
information" might fit.

cheers,

Felix
> ===
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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