Whitepapers and Resources

The following links provide additional information about standards. Please contact to have a resource added to this page.

GALA Whitepapers and Resources

• Standards: A Broad View. This whitepaper articulates the case for a holistic view of standards that goes beyond data standards to include business processes, quality, and other key areas. Download PDF.
• Apples to Apples: Developing Model Service Elements to Ensure Quality and Transparency. A brief overview of the GALA Model Service Elements project. Download PDF.
• Mind map of localization standards by function (based on Standards and Guidelines for the Language Industry, listed in External Resources). Download PDF.
• Mind map of localization standards by standard body (based on Standards and Guidelines for the Language Industry, listed in External Resources). Download PDF.
• GALA Blog postings on standards. Progress and information on the initiative and standards industry-wide. See blog postings.
• META strive: Making a paradise garden out of the jungles. Serge Gladkoff's presentation from META Forum 2012. Download PDF.
   

GALA Standards Initiative in the News

• Business 2 Community. "Increasing Translation Efficiency through Technology" (25 June 2012).
• tcworld "A Critical Need for Information About Standards" (August 2011).
• CSA's Global Watchtower. "Much Ado about Standards – Finally" (14 July 2011).
  

• Standards and Guidelines for the Language Industry (Kara Warburton). This document provides a comprehensive listing of standards relevant to the language industry as of 2007. Although now out of date, it remains the most comprehensive and relevant listing available.
• W3C Internationalization Activity’s news page. This page aggregates news relevant to web internationalization standards from a number of sources.
• W3C I18n technique index. A task-based index into the W3C’s educational material about web i18n. Includes instructions on how to use W3C standards.

Standards Bodies

The following organizations develop standards that impact localization processes. More information on the bodies listed below can be found in Standards and Guidelines for the Language Industry, listed in the External Resources section.

• Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
• ASTM International Committee F43 (Language Services and Products)
• Austrian Standards Institute (ASI)
• British Standards Institute (BSI)
• Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Localization Industry Standards (LIS) Industry Specification Group (ISG)
• German Institute for Standardization (DIN)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE)
• ISO Technical Committee 37 (Terminology and other language content resources) (T37)
• ISO Technical Committee 46 (Information and documentation) (T46)
• ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1
• Java Community Process (JCP)
• Object Management Group (OMG)
• OLIF Consortium
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
• Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE)
• Standardization Administration of China (SAC/国家标准化管理委员会)
• Unicode Consortium
• United Nations Statistics Division
• W3C Internationalization Activity

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