Re: renewal of the W3C Translation pages

That is great!

Congratulations Ivan and Martin

Regards Juan!

Ivan Herman wrote:

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>
> Dear all,
>
> we have renewed the translation pages of W3C at 
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/. This is not only a 
> facelifiting, but a change in the way we manage translations. Until 
> now, the various lists of translations were kept up-to-date by hand. 
> From now on, all data on translations are collected and stored on our 
> site in RDF, which allows us to generate automatically various 'views' 
> of the data, eg, lists of all French translations or of all the 
> translations of XML1.0. Note, however, that at this moment only the 
> translations of Recommendations, and of documents like WAI Quick Tips, 
> W3C in 7 points, etc, are listed. Translations of various W3C notes 
> and of candidate/proposed recommendations are not yet in the database, 
> but will be added soon. As new translations come in (through the 
> translator's mailing list) the RDF data is updated. (For the time 
> being this is a manual update, we are working on a more automatic 
> method of doing so.)
>
> Some of you maintain your own list for, eg, all Russian translations 
> of W3C documents, or of all available translations of a particular W3C 
> document. You should consider using the new facilities to maintain 
> those lists, instead of maintaining the list yourself. We offer 
> various possibilities to do that:
>
> - you can simply refer/redirect to a full XHTML page on either a 
> language or a list of translation of a particular technology. Of 
> course, you have then no control over the output format... ;-)
> - you can invoke a script returning an XHTML fragment that you can 
> include in your page (either on-the-fly through a server side include 
> when applicable, through some regular automatic update of your own 
> pages, etc)
> - if you want to manage RDF directly, you can also invoke a script 
> that would return the relevant RDF information (in an XML encoding) 
> (B.t.w., the full RDF data is also public).
>
> There is a more detailed description of the techniques used, as well 
> as the right URI-s to invoke the various scripts or to get access to 
> the RDF files, in:
> http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/Overview.html.
>
> Comments, ideas, feedbacks, etc, are welcome
>
> Ivan Herman & Martin Duerst
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> -- 
>
> Ivan Herman
> W3C Head of Offices
> C/o W3C Benelux Office at CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098SJ Amsterdam, The 
> Netherlands
> tel: +31-20-5924163; mobile: +31-641044153; URL: 
> http://www.w3.org/People/all#ivan
>
>

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 10:28:43 UTC