- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:20:32 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
I realized that during the i18n core call yesterday I should have shared some infos which may be of interest for a wider audience. Here a summary, in no specific order. 1) OntoLex community group The ontolex model https://www.w3.org/2016/05/ontolex/ has been created as a bridge between linguistic and language agnostic, ontological information. The model is getting more and more traction from practical lexicographers - and related companies who publish dictionaries for human readers, related to application areas like language learning. Due to this end, the ontolex group will start to discuss the usage of ontolex for lexicography and potential extensions. See the related thread here https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ontolex/2016Nov/0014.html The first call on this topic will be next Thursday, 15 December, 4 p.m. CET. 2) ITS and MQM In the Internationalization Tag Set, „Localization quality issue“ (LQI) information https://www.w3.org/TR/its20/#lqissue is used to express information related to localization quality assessment tasks. LQI is just a snapshot of developments in the area of quality assessment that continued further after ITS 2.0 was finished. The two most important efforts are MQM (Multidimensional Quality Metrics) and DQF (Dynamic Quality Framework). Recently a discussion in the ITS IG started on how MQM et al. could be related to ITS 2.0 LQI. See this thread https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its-ig/2016Nov/0000.html A conclusion is yet to come, feedback of course is welcome. 3) ITS and DocBook 5.1 DocBook 5.1 has been published as an OASIS standard. It contains support for ITS 2.1 in a dedicated schema providing the ITS definitions http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/docbook/v5.1/cos01/docbook-v5.1-cos01.html#s.docbook 4) XLIFF 2.1 and ITS module The first public review of XLIFF 2.1 is finished. A list of issues raised is at https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/XLIFF/ There have been no major changes, except in the ITS support: the idea is now to use the native ITS namespace (like in DocBook 5.1) instead of the previously defined, XLIFF specific ITS namespace. See a related discussion here https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/XLIFF-9 5) ITS in linked data This is not a standardization topic but about putting ITS into action in the linked data area: In the realm of the EU project FREME and esp. with the support of the company Vistatec, a service e-internationalisation has been created to work with ITS in a linked data context. See the documentation of e-internationalisation at https://freme-project.github.io/knowledge-base/freme-for-api-users/eInternationalisation.html the FREME project will end soon. the service will continue to be accessible online via https://freme-project.github.io/ , and the code of the FREME framework, including e-internationalisation, is open source. 6) I18N related funding Most of the above work which is not in the core of i18n activities is funded by European public money. These days, in the related EC funding agency, language falls under the category of data. So lobbying to show the importance of language focused standardization is needed. Various people, some of them in the realm of the LIDER project, are continuing to do that. The channel is the Big Data Value Association. Last week BDVA held its summit in Valencia and a session on standardization was organized, which included a presentation on topics like the above 1-5. See the summit agenda at http://www.bdva.eu/sites/default/files/Summit_Agenda_0.pdf#page=7 Regards, Felix
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