GALA Webinar: Saving Money and Meeting Customer Demands with Open Standards

22 March 11:00 EDT (16:00 CET)

Join John Watkins and Yves Savourel of ENLASO for a webinar that will show how investing in and using localization standards like TMX and XLIFF can help language service providers better meet customer requirements, increase the pool of available resources by eliminating dependence on specific tools, and reduce the difficulty of dealing with multiple file formats.

Standards are often treated by LSPs as something nice to have, but the case for LSPs to invest in them may not be clear. In this session, John and Yves will discuss the direct benefits to the bottom line for LSPs that are best achieved by active involvement in standards development and use. This presentation will feature examples that show how standards streamline the interface between various tools and improve the ability to deal with proprietary file formats in an environment where many different tools are used.

About the presenters

John Watkins is the CEO of ENLASO Corporation and has an extensive background in product engineering and localization, having worked in international business for over 22 years. During his career, he has been involved in software product development, software engineering, business process engineering, and legal/HR policies and procedures. He spent 10 years in Europe working at an international government agency to make the skies safer for air travel in 22 languages. He has a M.Sc. from the University of Cincinnati. John can be reached at jwatkins@enlaso.com

Author of the book XML Internationalization and Localization, Yves Savourel has been in the localization industry for more than 20 years. While providing internationalization consulting, his main focus has always been on developing tools and solutions for localization processes, often including XML aspects. Yves has been closely involved in the creation of XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format), TMX (the Translation Memory eXchange format), SRX (Segmentation Rules eXchange), and other standardization efforts. More recently, Yves has chaired the Internationalization Tag Set working group at the W3C. He is also a programmer and participates actively in different open-source projects related to localization, such as the Okapi Framework. Yves is a native of Brittany and has lived in France, Africa and in the Indian Ocean before settling in Colorado. He has post-graduate degrees in Geography and Computer Science.

This free webinar is made possible through the GALA Standards Initiative, a program which promotes the effective use of standards for international and multilingual content, builds awareness of best practices for their implementation, and helps the localization community make open standards work.

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