Open Standards and Localisation Symbiotic Partners in International

Growth

Patrick Patrick GannonGannonPresident & CEOPresident & CEO

LRC – XLRC – X

Limerick, IrelandLimerick, Ireland

14 September 200514 September 2005

Agenda

Vision for Future Global eBusiness

Business Benefits of Open Standards

OASIS Role in Localisation Standards

Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and

Open Standards

Vision for Future Global eBusiness built on a Service Oriented Architecture

The Dawn of a New Era Built on Service Oriented Architecture

Vision of a Service-Oriented Architecture A place where services are ubiquitous

and organically integrated into the way we think and work.

A place where both users and providers of information interact through a common focus on services.

A world where technology is implemented within industry frameworks that operate on a global scale, enabled by open, interoperable standards.

A Common Web Service Framework Is Essential To provide a sustainable foundation,

That will allow end-user companies to

achieve the payback they require,

To invest widely in the service-

oriented architecture.

Achieving Sustainable Business Benefits through a Common Web Service Framework

In this post-dot-com era, end user companies are expecting more liquidity and longevity of their assets.

To achieve the ROI, Cost Reduction and Service Expansion benefits expected; the widespread deployment of standards-based Web services is essential.

Business Benefits for Open Standards

Why do standards matter? What is the ROI for open standards Normalizing data, processes and users costs time and

money … so share those costs with other interested participants

Open standards drive more competitive solutions including open source software solutions

ROI can come from operational savings outweigh the costs if those savings are stable and persistent

This requires Stable versioning of specifications Reliable, fixed terms of availability of standards INTEROPERABLE standards CONVERGING standards

Why Are Software Standards Important?

CompatibilityCompatibility

ExtensibilityExtensibility

PredictabilityPredictability

InteroperabilityInteroperability

Leverage Existing SkillsLeverage Existing Skills

Rapid DevelopmentRapid Development

Delphi Group Research on the Value of Open Software Standards Greatest benefit to support open standards

• Increases the value of existing and future investments in information systems

• Provides greater software re-usability• Enables greater data portability

Factors driving participation in standards• Vendor neutral environment• Access to a community of developers• Membership comprised of both end-users and

software developers

Delphi Group Research on the Value of Open Software Standards

“Compliance with standards in software development is not simply a strategic direction, but a business imperative.”

“Even those who took a very practical approach and stated that standards might slow down their efforts initially, agreed that in the long run the presence of a standard represented a much more secure investment.”

How Can Users Influence Vendors? Examine and understand standards that

are pertinent to your industry Participate in standards bodies that relate

to your business practices Help vendors understand the importance of

your requirements for interoperability Help vendors understand what standards

you rely upon today and in the future … and why

Do not purchase products from vendors who do not support the standards you need

Leading the Adoption of

Web Services Standards

OASIS drives the OASIS drives the development, development,

convergence and convergence and adoption adoption

of e-business of e-business standards.standards. 

OASIS Mission

OASIS is a member-led, international non-profit standards consortium concentrating on structured information and global e-business standards.

Over 650 Members of OASIS are: Vendors, users, academics and governments Organizations, individuals and industry

groups Best known for web services, e-business,

security and document format standards. Supports over 65 committees producing royalty-

free and RAND standards in an open process.

OASIS Members Represent the Marketplace

OASIS Member Organizations

Technology Providers

50%

Users & Influencers

35%

Government & University

15%

International RepresentationTotal OASIS Members - 2000

4% 13%

83%

Asia-Pacific Europe North America

Total OASIS Members - 2005

66%21%

13%

Asia-Pacific Europe North America

OASIS Relationships Attempt to cooperate and liaise with other

standards organizations as much as possible Avoid duplication, promote interoperability

Gain sanction/authority for OASIS work

Formal working relationships with: W3C, OMG, IDEAlliance, RosettaNet, CommerceNet

ACORD, HL7, LISA, SWIFT, VCA, UCC, ONCE, etc.

ISO/IEC JTC SC34, ISO TC154 (Cat. A Liaison)

ITU-T A.4 and A.5 Recognition

ISO, IEC, ITU, UN-ECE Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for E-Business

OASIS TCs: Application Focused Docbook e-Government e-Procurement Standardization Election and Voter Services Emergency Management Human Markup Materials Markup Language Open Building Information Exchange Open Document Format for Office Applications Product Life Cycle Support Production Planning & Scheduling [Japanese] Tax XML Universal Business Language

OASIS Standards with Open Source Implementations

OpenDocument Format for Office Applications OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org

WS-Remote Portlets in Apache: WSRP4J http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/

Registry: ebXML RegRep in Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebxmlrr/ UDDI in Apache: http://ws.apache.org/juddi/

Access Control: XACML in Sourceforge: http://sunxacml.sourceforge.net/

Message Reliability: ebXML Messaging in SourceForge (multiple): http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebxmlms/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/openebxml/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebmail/

Documentation Enterprise Outsourcing http://sourceforge.net/projects/deo/ Core components http://sourceforge.net/projects/corecomponents/

Business Content Assembly: CAM in open Java: http://jcam.org.uk

OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format Technical Committee

OASIS XLIFF TC First Meeting in Jan 2002 TC Chair: Tony Jewtushenko Committee Specification:

XLIFF v1.0 in Feb 2002 XLIFF v1.1 in May 2003 XLIFF v1.x in Q4 2005

TC now developing profiles and testing scenarios

OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee

The idea of creating a standard for the use of Web Services within translation was put forward at the eLocalisation 2001 conference held in Limerick, Ireland.

The conference had heard a paper from IBM on the use of Web Services

A practical demonstration of how this technology was already being used by BGS/ Lionbridge (then Berlitz GlobalNET), which gave a demonstration of work it was doing on the 2003 Special Olympics Web site.

Using Web Services, an XLIFF file was sent from the Web site to Elcano, BGS’s online translation service, and back to the Web site

OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee

OASIS Trans-WS TC First Meeting: Jan 2003

TC Chair: Peter Reynolds,

Committee Specification: Trans WS v1.0 in Q4-2005 / Q1 2006

OASIS Translation WS TC Status Currently working on completing the draft

specification and adopting this as a committee specification

Next step following this is to get companies to use this standard

Committee Specification will eventually be proposed as an OASIS Standard

Small active membership of TC – Will be looking at future direction after release of committee specification

Working with the Localisation Resource Centre, who are building a pilot implementation of the proposed standard

Translation Web Services Functionality Uses

Getting a list of available source and target languages

Requesting and retrieving quotes

Sending content for translation and starting translation jobs

Monitoring the status of submitted jobs

Sending and retrieving reference files.

Retrieving finished jobs

Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and Open Standards

sym·bi·o·sisPronunciation: "sim-bE-'O-s&s, -"bI-

Etymology: New Latin, from German Symbiose, from Greek symbiOsis state of living together, from symbioun to live together, from symbios living together, from syn- + bios life

1 : the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms

2 : the intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship

OASIS Roles in Localisation Producer of Localisation Standards

OASIS XLIFF TC OASIS Translation Web Services TC

Consumer of Localisation Services Localisation of OASIS website Translation of OASIS collateral documents Member organizations translating OASIS technical

specifications and user documents

Supporter of Localisation Organizations LISA LRC (Content Partner: XML.org Localisation Focus Area)

Symbiotic Relationship for OASIS & the Localisation Community Localisation Standards

Localisation Service Providers invited to provide requirements and use case scenarios

Localisation Software Vendors invited to participate in testing and interoperability demonstrations

Localisation Services OASIS seeking collaboration on website internationalisation and

localisation strategies to serve an international community Opportunity for localisation service providers to gain recognition for

translating OASIS technical specifications and user documents Liaison with Localisation Organizations

OASIS supporting IGNITE project OASIS seeking interested parties for future research on multi-lingual

eBusiness project

Observations: eBusiness Transactions• Encourage involvement of globalization

experts on many of OASIS TCs– Customer Info– e-Government– Emergency Management– Open Building Info eXchange

– OpenDocument Format for Office – UDDI– WS for Remote Portals

• Create a new Committee focused on globalization of e-Business and Web Services transaction content– OASIS Universal Business Language– Other Organizations’ Content Vocabularies:

ACORD, EAN, ONCE, OTA, RosettaNet, …

UBL Localization Sub-Committees:Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

Translation of UBL specifications and associated documentation into the target language (including the definitions of the data elements)

Construction of language-specific lookup tables for UBL element and attribute names

Generation of publicity for UBL in the target locale

Proposal of UBL extensions to accommodate locale-specific legal and business practices

Building and maintaining a web site to provide information about UBL in the target language

OASIS Adoption Forum 17-18 October 2005 Hilton Metropole, London Ovum Analyst to Keynote on Open Standards

and Open Source Explore Advances for e-Government, e-Health,

and e-Commerce Special Add-On Event Showcases

OpenDocument and DITA Attend to understand the trends, the status, and

the actual business cases that drive this workhttp://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/

Business Benefits of Participation in OASIS

Membership Benefits Influence Information Participation Education Co-ordination Credibility Visibility Openess

End-User Company Benefits Educate employees on trends and developments

of technology Learn and adopt best practices Influence direction and priorities of standards

development by providing business requirements Evaluate and observe vendors in their

implementation and product directions Participate in interoperability demos by providing

business scenarios See practical implementation from multiple

vendors for given scenarios

University and Research Centre Benefits

Monitor ”state of the art” in technology and standards development

Propose new ideas and get feedback to those ideas

Reduce the ”time to market” from concept to wide spread adoption

Create a broader market for adoption of development from your research projects

Gain visability for your project efforts Establish closer ties with more busineses and

industry organisations

OASIS Value Sanction x Traction = Adoption

Twelve years demonstrated success

Neutral and independent

Technical and procedural competence

Worldwide visibility and outreach

Close coordination with peer standards organizations on a global level

Relevance, Openness, Implement-ability

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Contact Information:

Patrick Gannon

President & CEO

patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org

+1.978.761.3546

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