[Foundation-l] Some words on localisation and wikidata

[Sabine Cretella]

What is being proposed on that is not so "far away" then one might 
think. There are at least two official projects in that direction (even 
more if you search for it - there are also some minor ones by single 
persons).

1) University of Limerick, Ireland - I may not talk about this as it is 
in its beginnings and the creator of the project asked me not to talk 
about it for the moment.
2) A commercial project that sees the realisation of such a database in 
approx 5 year's time then marekting it and selling it to translator's 
(great - our the transator's category has every year less income due to 
the market and we shall spend more and more every year due to the 
"necessities" of the customers) - more about this in clientside news 
(Global Intelligence Newsletter) - sorry I don't have the url here at 
the moment.

These projects are similar and different at the same time - but they 
have one common goal: creation of a data repository for 
localisation/translation.

Wikidata already allows to create this - we already have the tools 
others are still working on - it is more than just a valid project.

I presume the university will have a look at wikidata as soon as it is 
possible and if it is favourable we should consider co-operation between 
all these interested parties - of course the commercial side will not be 
too fond of this developments.

xml, tmx and tbx play a huge role in this as well - but sorry, it would 
go too far to explain all these interactions here right now. If you want 
to read more about this please refer to http://www.lisa.org

Ciao, Sabine

p.s. Martin, please correct me if there's something wrong in here.

		
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