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Happy 30th Birthday, Unicode!
In October 1991, Unicode 1.0 was first released. In the 30 years since that publication an entire generation of language workers have been educated and started work, never having had to know the “joys” of trying to ungarble text that had go...
Arle Lommel - December 8, 2021
Content technology
Digital transformation
Translation Technology
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Thinking Big about Interoperability
Mention “interoperability” and many localizers think of yet another conference panel about the value of XLIFF, or why they should care about Translation Memory eXchange (TMX), or the arcana of ISO technical committees. The reduction of the...
Arle Lommel - September 18, 2019
LSP project management
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TBX:2019: A New Version of the ISO Standard Raises the Bar
Localization industry veterans may recall when the OSCAR standards group in the now-defunct Localization Industry Standards Association introduced TermBase eXchange (TBX) way back in 2002, based on earlier work from 1999. Released in the ea...
Arle Lommel - July 17, 2019
Buyer budgeting
Intelligent content
Standards
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Getting Derailed: Why Standards Initiatives Fall Short
The Holy Grail of the language industry has been to standardize the transfer of jobs between the various tools and content management systems – and thus improve the outcomes. Linport, the latest initiative in this area, was born as the Cont...
Arle Lommel - February 27, 2019
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TAPICC – Because No One Has Time for Closed Systems
The history of standards for data and file exchange formats in the language industry goes back to the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) in the 1990s, which spearheaded the efforts around TBX, TMX, and GMX. The Organization...
CSA Research - January 3, 2019
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