Open Standards and Localisation Symbiotic Partners in International Growth

1. Open Standards and Localisation Symbiotic Partners in International Growth Patrick GannonPresident & CEO LRC – X Limerick, Ireland 14 September 2005

2. Agenda • Vision for Future Global eBusiness • Business Benefits of Open Standards • OASIS Role in Localisation Standards • Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and Open Standards

3. Vision for Future Global eBusiness built on a Service Oriented Architecture

4. The Dawn of a New Era Built on Service Oriented Architecture

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Business Benefits for Open Standards

9. 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 stableandpersistent • This requires • Stable versioning of specifications • Reliable, fixed terms of availability of standards • INTEROPERABLE standards • CONVERGING standards

10. Compatibility Extensibility Predictability Interoperability Rapid Development Leverage Existing Skills Why Are Software Standards Important?

11. 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

12. 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.”

13. 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

14. Leading the Adoption of Web Services Standards

15. OASIS Mission OASIS drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.

16. 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.

17. OASIS Members Represent the Marketplace

18. International Representation

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and Open Standards

28. sym·bi·o·sis Pronunciation: "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

29. 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)

30. 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

31. 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, …

32. 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

33. 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 work http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/

34. Business Benefits of Participation in OASIS

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

36. 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

37. 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

38. OASIS Value • Sanctionx 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

39. “ 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 ”

40. Contact Information: Patrick Gannon President & CEO patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org +1.978.761.3546 • www.oasis-open.org • www.xml.org • www.xml.coverpages.org