OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee Agenda -- 12 August 2007

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1)  Roll 
Call 

2) 
Accept Minutes 
from 16 July 2007 (need from Gershon

   Accept 
Minutes from 30 July 2007

  http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TranslationSubcommittee

3)  Review open action 
items

    3.1 ACTION: 
Gershon to investigate whether he can use a client's samples. 

        Gershon will assemble all the 
examples into the template for the TC; need to add the examples to the 
Multilanguage Best Practice.

        
CONTINUED. Awaiting legal OK; Gershon is selecting items for use in the 
Best Practice.

    3.2 ACTION: 
Gershon and Don will present the approved best practices 
on
        indexing, 
conrefs, Translation Memory, and multilanguage as committee 
drafts for approval by the 
 DITA Technical 
Committee.

        
CONTINUED. Gershon to complete marking up in DITA XML and complete OASIS 

        customization and deliver to TC 
for review; now working with Mary McRae to get these Documents in shape 
for a vote. 

    3.5 ACTION: 
Rodolfo will continue to work on the Best Practice for XLIFF

        
CONTINUED.

     3.6 ACTION: JoAnn 
will try writing the sort order addition to the indexing 

        Best Practice for 
review.

        
CONTINUED.

    3.7 ACTION: JoAnn 
will contact Richard Ischida to get clarification on the need for a 
pronunciation  element  or attribute 
for the acronym proposal.

         
IN PROGRESS -- note sent to Richard. JoAnn raised the issue at the OASIS 
Symposium with  the Accessibility 
working group headed by Peter Brunet from IBM. They are working 
on Accessibility for ODF. Suggested 
that DITA be included in the 
accessibility discussions. No response as yet.

4)  Returning 
business:

    4.1 Discuss the changes to Andrzej and 
Rodolfo's  acronym proposal. See the  
wiki
 
    4.2 Discuss Rodolfo's  proposed additions to 
the Indexing best practice. 
     

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TranslationSubcommittee

   5) New Business

  5.1 Comment on the W3C working 
draft. 

A 
W3C working draft document entitled "Best Practices for XML 
Internationalization" was published last week.

It 
includes a section on DITA at

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20070628/#dita

5.2 Begin consideration of the ruby 
attribute

Some discussion has begun on the yahoo group about the ruby attribute. 
See Deborah Pickett's notes.

 JoAnn T. Hackos, 
PhD
President
Comtech Services, Inc.
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