Proposal for a DITA and Translation Subcommittee

Fellow DITA TC members:

 

I propose to officially designate the group 
investigating best practices for DITA and Translation as a TC subcommittee. The 
goals of the subcommittee are as follows:

 

1) Develop an effective liaison with the 
OASIS XLIFF technical committee and the W3C ITS working group so that the DITA 
TC can work together with those interested providing for the needs of 
the information-development community from authoring through localization 
to the production of final deliverables in multiple languages.

2) Establish guidelines that promote 
best practices for authoring, workflow, and tools that allows information to move seamlessly from original authors and editors 
through translators and production specialists handling the intricacies 
of multiple languages and cultures.

3) Add to the various specifications methods that 
will help vendors and service providers comply with DITA and 
translation-oriented standards.

4) Add a DITA to XLIFF to DITA tool set to the  DITA Open Source Toolkit so that content can move seamlessly along the full information development life cycle.

This subcommittee will draw members 
from the DITA and the XLIFF TCs and establish a liaison with the W3C ITS working 
group.

JoAnn 

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD 
President 
Comtech Services, 
Inc. 
710 Kipling Street, Suite 400 

Denver, CO 80215 
303-232-7586 
 
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