bioloom group – News and Press
May 2013
The W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a second Last Call Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. ITS 2.0 supports information integration into core Web technologies by providing metadata to better facilitate the adoption of the multilingual Web. The new draft reflects all changes since the first last call publication in December 2012. Comments are welcome through June 11, 2013.
April 2013
Presentation proposals "Notes from the XLIFF Underground: 'Elements of Style' for Language Interoperability" and "Corporate Language Audits Enabling Dynamic Localization Concerns" accepted for the 4th XLIFF Symposium and the ITS Track of FEISGILTT 2013 in London (June 11-12 2013). FEISGILTT is again co-located with the localization conference Localization World as it as been the case in 2012 in Seattle.
On April 11, a new W3C Working Draft of the ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) Version 2.0 has been published at http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-its20-20130411/.
March 2013
Tutorial proposal on localization and translation standards together with Prof. Alan Melby of Brigham Young University accepted for the forthcoming Machine Translation Summit XIV (September 2-6, 2013 in Nizza, France).
Participation and presentation at the 6th MultilingualWeb W3C Workshop in Rome, Italy on March 12-13, 2013.
On March 1st, the Interoperability-Now! working results — XLIFF:doc Representation Guide 1.0, and TIPP 1.5 — have been officially published. They are available for download at the IN! Project Website.
February 2013
The Interoperability-Now! initiative is finalizing the specifications for XLIFF:doc and TIPP. These specifications will be the foundation for a standardization process through the Linport project. The members of the IN! initiative will actively support this process and the further developments of Linport such as, for example, the Linport Data Model.
Joint presentation proposal "Going Global with Mobile App Development: Enabling the Connected Enterprise" of Jörg Schütz, bioloom group, and Jan Nelson, Microsoft Corporation, accepted for the 6th MultilingualWeb W3C Workshop in Rome, Italy on March 12-13, 2013.
Important: Workshop registration is open until March 08, 2013.
January 2013
On January 24, META (Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance) organizes the first German Language Technology Day in Berlin. Besides the introduction of the research agenda for a multilingual Europe 2020, representatives of research, industry, and politics will present as well as project and product demonstrations will take place (announcement in German only). A preliminary program has been published.
On Dec 6 the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 "last call" working draft was published by the W3C. "Last call" means that the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT working group, which is developing ITS 2.0, assumes that the work is feature complete, and now asks the general public for your feedback on the work. Feedback can be given until January 18, 2013 (the deadline has been extended).
Don't forget to register and submit a presentation proposal for the 6th MultilingualWeb W3C Workshop on March 12-13, 2013 hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. At this event Mark Davis and Vladimir Weinstein from Google will deliver the keynote entitled “Innovations in Internationalization at Google.”
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