Joint presentation on the future of localization data standards from LISA and OASIS, February 2011

1. Removing Communication
Barriers:
International Content
Standards at LISA & OASIS
Dr. Arle Lommel, LISA
arle@lisa.org
James Bryce Clark, OASIS
jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
February 10, 2011

11. ● OASIS is a member-led, “The largest
international non-profit standards group for
standards consortium for electronic commerce
global e-business & the on the Web.”
information economy
● Over 650 members
● Over 70 technical
committees producing
royalty-free and RAND
standards
Best-known works include: OpenDocument Format, CMIS and DITA (documents);
SAML, XACML, KMIP, IMI, ID-Cloud and WS-Security (identity & security);
BPEL, UDDI, WS-RM and the SOA Reference Model (SOA & web services);
CAP, UBL & ebXML (e-government)

12. OASIS interoperates with the world
 Cooperation, liaison and harmonization with other standards
organizations is a first-class OASIS priority
 Formal working relationships with:
 ISO, IEC, ITU, UN-ECE MoU for E-Business
 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34, SC38; ISO TCs 154, 215, ITU-T SG 17
 IPTC, OECD, SWIFT, UPU, World Bank
 Asia PKI, Changfeng (Beijing), CESI, EA-ECA, Korean NIA,
CEN/ISSS, European ICTSB, ETSI, PSLX, Standards-AU
 ABA, ACORD, AIAG, CalConnect, HL7, MBAA, NAESB, LRC,
InfoCard/OpenID, Kantara/Liberty, LISA, OAGi, OGC, OMA,
OMG, RosettaNet/UCC, W3C, WS-I

14. What is a “Standard”?
Standard
Anything on which a few vendors agree?
Well, no. An open standard is:
 Publicly available
 Stable, persistent versions
 Published rules
 Open process (public comments, archives,
no NDAs)
 Explicit, disclosed, finite IPR terms
Anything else is proprietary: this is a
regulatory policy distinction, not a pejorative.

15. How open standards cause
interoperability & convergence
 Standards are modular
 Users and developers test whether the
method can be used in conjunction with other
specifications
 Modular methods can be phased into legacy
architectures
 Modular methods are less
vulnerable to vendor lock-in
 No-one uses just ONE
standard

16. OASIS DocBook
Since 1998; latest: v5.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook
Spec: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#docbook
Structured document authoring using XML or
SGML, starting with software and hardware
technical documentation use cases.
From Markup to publishing-specific functionality
• inline graphics
• title and subtitle handling
• bibliographies, defined terms, lists and cross
references
• delimiters for blocks of texts, subjects, ancillary
matter

17. OASIS DITA
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Since 2004; Latest = v5.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#ditav1.2
XML schemas for modular, topic-based information
presentation. Extensible by specialization, where new,
supplemental semantic structures, document types and
data types can be added for specific topics. Current DITA
vocabulary specializations include learning & training
content, pharmaceutical content, web content,
semiconductor design content, and translation content.
Documents atomize semantically, into topics and
maps, associated with metadata, vocabularies and
other re-useable bytes; renditions of the material may
vary widely from use to use and processor to
processor.

18. OASIS CMIS
Content Management Interoperability Services
Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2010)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cmis
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#cmisv1.0
CMIS provides a data exchange model, abstract
capabilities set and set of data bindings for Content
Management repositories/systems, to work with each
other and outside applications, to support aggregate
content use that leverages current repositories.
Chief use cases include portals and mashups that
consume content from multiple systems; searches
across repositories for re-use, records management
and audit purposes; and subscription & notification
services.

19. OASIS XLIFF
XML Localisation Interchange File Format
Since 2001; Latest = v1.2 (2008)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#xliffv1.2
XLIFF is a set of XML vocabularies for standardized
interchange of localisable software, document-based
objects and related metadata between localization
tools..

20. OASIS OAXAL
Open Architecture for XML Authoring & Localization Ref. Model
Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oaxal
Specification: http://www.oasis-
open.org/committees/download.php/35736/OASIS%20Open
%20Architecture%20for%20XML%20Authoring%20and
%20Localization%20Reference%20Model%20%28OAXAL%29.pdf
The Open Architecture for XML Authoring and
Localization Reference Model provides for an
integrated document creation and localization
environment, including planned support for W3C ITS,
LISA OSCAR xml:tm, LISA GMX, LISA TMX, Unicode
TR29, OASIS XLIFF, and various open standard XML
Vocabularies such as DITA, Docbook, XHTML, SVG
and ODF.

21. What should stakeholders do?
 Bring your use cases to the
standards table
 Be prepared to compromise
 If you can participate as an active
contributor, do so
 If you don’t have the bandwidth to
contribute actively, be a good
observer
 Understand the ground rules
 Expect conformance
 Be a good citizen

23. Questions?