Moravia, a Czech provider of localisation and testing solutions, today announced its participation and support for the recently formed OASIS technical committee (TC) on Web Services Standards for Translation. This forum aims to develop standards, which will provide a common framework for both publisher and vendor, enabling more automation of the translation and localisation process.
“To achieve full-scale global eBusiness, we must overcome the challenge of enabling multilingual business transactions over the Internet. A critical first step is the widespread buy-in, support and adoption of translation and localisation standards. Moravia’s participation in advancing the localisation process standards within OASIS will help us build the infrastructure necessary for global electronic business,” explained Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS.
The Web Services Standards can be described as the backbone to a workflow interface, using standardised metadata to enable information flow. To date there is no one single standard for information flow. Companies use a combination of e-mail, FTP and the web for data transfer and communication.
Now, we see a change in requirements, where users would like to store and transfer all information and data from one central application. With the Web Services Standard, a standard interface between publishers and vendors will be defined, enabling online communication and data transfer. Publishers can automate their selection process by checking rates and services of vendors, before allocating a project, Gannon added.
The result of the TC Standards will be a series of tModels, one for each business process, clarifying the web service interface (similar to DTD in XML). The tModels will define which services will be offered under Web Services and what format, names and parameters the functions of this interface will have. The actual implementation of the interface will be the responsibility of the user.
2003-02-06
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