Table on language related standards

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Preliminary Taxonomy of Language Specifications

Type

Name

Organization

Markup, authoring, and tech info delivery

Markup Metalanguage

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879) for large-scale electronic publishing and data exchange.

Commercial

DITA

Darwin Information Typing Architecture builds content reuse into the authoring process, defining an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the Web.

Government

S1000D

Specification for technical publications utilizing a common source database

Character Representation

Unicode

Provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.

Language Codes

ISO 639-3

A code that aims to define three-letter identifiers for all known human languages.

Machine Translation

OLIF

The Open Lexicon Interchange Format is an open standard for lexical/terminological data encoding. 

Multilingual Data Exchange

XLIFF

XML localization interchange file format

Quality

Interpreting Services

ASTM F2809-01

Identifies the components of quality language interpretation services and establishes criteria for each component

Language Services

GB/T19363.1-2003

Specification for translation service (PRC)

Translation Services

ASTM F2575-06

Identifies factors relevant to the quality of language translation services for each phase of a translation project

CEN EN15038

Describes and defines the entire translation process

Metrics

LISA QA Model

Manage the quality assurance process for all the components in a localized product, including functionality, documentation and language issues.

SAE J2450

Quality metric for language translation of service information

GMX

Family of proposed standards concerning translation-related metrics for volume, complexity, and quality

Terminology

Representation

TBX

XML-based standard format for terminological data

Data

ISO 12620

Data categories

Markup

ISO DIS 16642

Terminological markup

Glossary

ISO 1087

Standard for glossary terminology

Language Resources Management

ISO TC37/SC2/WG6

Standardization of principles, methods and applications relating to terminology and other language and content resources in the contexts of multilingual communication and cultural diversity

Translation Memory

Segmentation

SRX

XML-based standard for description of the ways in which translation and other language-processing tools segment text for processing

Exchange

TMX

XML-based standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by computer-aided translation (CAT) and localization tools

Workflow

WfMC

Standards for workflow, process interchange, and business process management.

 

 

Source: GALA

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