Open Standards and Localisation Symbiotic Partners in International Growth

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Open Standards and Localisation Symbiotic
Partners in International Growth
Patrick GannonPresident CEO
LRC X Limerick, Ireland 14 September 2005
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Agenda

• Vision for Future Global eBusiness
• Business Benefits of Open Standards
• OASIS Role in Localisation Standards
• Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and Open
  Standards

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Vision for Future Global eBusiness built on a
Service Oriented Architecture
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The Dawn of a New Era Built on Service Oriented
Architecture
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Vision of a Service-Oriented Architecture

• A place where services are ubiquitous and
  organically integrated into the way we think and
  work.
• A place where both users and providers of
  information interact through a common focus on
  services.
• A world where technology is implemented within
  industry frameworks that operate on a global
  scale, enabled by open, interoperable standards.

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A Common Web Service Framework Is Essential

• To provide a sustainable foundation,
• That will allow end-user companies to achieve the
  payback they require,
• To invest widely in the service-oriented
  architecture.

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Achieving Sustainable Business Benefits through a
Common Web Service Framework

• In this post-dot-com era, end user companies are
  expecting more liquidity and longevity of their
  assets.
• To achieve the ROI, Cost Reduction and Service
  Expansion benefits expected the widespread
  deployment of standards-based Web services is
  essential.

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Business Benefits for Open Standards
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Why do standards matter? What is the ROI for
open standards

• Normalizing data, processes and users costs time
  and money
• so share those costs with other interested
  participants
• Open standards drive more competitive solutions
• including open source software solutions
• ROI can come from operational savings outweigh
  the costs
• if those savings are stable and persistent
• This requires
• Stable versioning of specifications
• Reliable, fixed terms of availability of
  standards
• INTEROPERABLE standards
• CONVERGING standards

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Why Are Software Standards Important?
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What is an Open Standard?

• An open standard is
• publicly available in stable, persistent versions
• developed and approved under a published,
  transparent process
• open to public input public comments, public
  archives, no NDAs
• subject to explicit, disclosed IPR terms
• See the US, EU, WTO governmental treaty
  definitions of standards
• Anything else is proprietary

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Delphi Group Research on the Value of Open
Software Standards

• Greatest benefit to support open standards
• Increases the value of existing and future
  investments in information systems
• Provides greater software re-usability
• Enables greater data portability
• Factors driving participation in standards
• Vendor neutral environment
• Access to a community of developers
• Membership comprised of both end-users and
  software developers

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Delphi Group Research on the Value of Open
Software Standards

• Compliance with standards in software
  development is not simply a strategic direction,
  but a business imperative.
• Even those who took a very practical approach
  and stated that standards might slow down their
  efforts initially, agreed that in the long run
  the presence of a standard represented a much
  more secure investment.

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How Can Users Influence Vendors?

• Examine and understand standards that are
  pertinent to your industry
• Participate in standards bodies that relate to
  your business practices
• Help vendors understand the importance of your
  requirements for interoperability
• Help vendors understand what standards you rely
  upon today and in the future and why
• Do not purchase products from vendors who do not
  support the standards you need

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Leading the Adoption of Web Services Standards
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OASIS Mission

• OASIS drives the
• development,
• convergence and adoption
• of e-business standards. 

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• OASIS is a member-led, international non-profit
  standards consortium concentrating on structured
  information and global e-business standards.
• Over 650 Members of OASIS are
• Vendors, users, academics and governments
• Organizations, individuals and industry groups
• Best known for web services, e-business,
  security and document format standards.
• Supports over 65 committees producing
  royalty-free and RAND standards in an open
  process.

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OASIS Members Represent the Marketplace
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International Representation
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OASIS Relationships

• Attempt to cooperate and liaise with other
  standards organizations as much as possible
• Avoid duplication, promote interoperability
• Gain sanction/authority for OASIS work
• Formal working relationships with
• W3C, OMG, IDEAlliance, RosettaNet, CommerceNet
• ACORD, HL7, LISA, SWIFT, VCA, UCC, ONCE, etc.
• ISO/IEC JTC SC34, ISO TC154 (Cat. A Liaison)
• ITU-T A.4 and A.5 Recognition
• ISO, IEC, ITU, UN-ECE Memorandum of Understanding
  (MoU) for E-Business

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OASIS TCs Application Focused

• Docbook
• e-Government
• e-Procurement Standardization
• Election and Voter Services
• Emergency Management
• Human Markup
• Materials Markup Language
• Open Building Information Exchange
• Open Document Format for Office Applications
• Product Life Cycle Support
• Production Planning Scheduling Japanese
• Tax XML
• Universal Business Language

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OASIS Standards with Open Source Implementations

• OpenDocument Format for Office Applications
• OpenOffice http//www.openoffice.org
• WS-Remote Portlets in Apache
• WSRP4J http//ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/
• Registry
• ebXML RegRep in Sourceforge http//sourceforge.ne
  t/projects/ebxmlrr/
• UDDI in Apache http//ws.apache.org/juddi/
• Access Control XACML in Sourceforge
• http//sunxacml.sourceforge.net/
• Message Reliability ebXML Messaging in
  SourceForge (multiple)
• http//sourceforge.net/projects/ebxmlms/
• http//sourceforge.net/projects/openebxml/
• http//sourceforge.net/projects/ebmail/
• Documentation Enterprise
• Outsourcing http//sourceforge.net/projects/deo/
• Core components http//sourceforge.net/projects/co
  recomponents/
• Business Content Assembly CAM in open Java
  http//jcam.org.uk

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OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format
Technical Committee

• OASIS XLIFF TC First Meeting in Jan 2002
• TC Chair Tony Jewtushenko
• Committee Specification
• XLIFF v1.0 in Feb 2002
• XLIFF v1.1 in May 2003
• XLIFF v1.x in Q4 2005
• TC now developing profiles and testing scenarios

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OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee

• The idea of creating a standard for the use of
  Web Services within translation was put forward
  at the eLocalisation 2001 conference held in
  Limerick, Ireland.
• The conference had heard a paper from IBM on the
  use of Web Services
• A practical demonstration of how this technology
  was already being used by BGS/ Lionbridge (then
  Berlitz GlobalNET), which gave a demonstration of
  work it was doing on the 2003 Special Olympics
  Web site.
• Using Web Services, an XLIFF file was sent from
  the Web site to Elcano, BGSs online translation
  service, and back to the Web site

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OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee

• OASIS Trans-WS TC First Meeting
• Jan 2003
• TC Chair Peter Reynolds,
• Committee Specification
• Trans WS v1.0 in Q4-2005 / Q1 2006

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OASIS Translation WS TC Status

• Currently working on completing the draft
  specification and adopting this as a committee
  specification
• Next step following this is to get companies to
  use this standard
• Committee Specification will eventually be
  proposed as an OASIS Standard
• Small active membership of TC Will be looking
  at future direction after release of committee
  specification
• Working with the Localisation Resource Centre,
  who are building a pilot implementation of the
  proposed standard

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Translation Web Services Functionality Uses

• Getting a list of available source and target
  languages
• Requesting and retrieving quotes
• Sending content for translation and starting
  translation jobs
• Monitoring the status of submitted jobs
• Sending and retrieving reference files.
• Retrieving finished jobs

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Symbiotic Benefits of Localisation and Open
Standards
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symbiosis

• Pronunciation "sim-bE-'O-ss, -"bI-Etymology
  New Latin, from German Symbiose, from Greek
  symbiOsis state of living together, from symbioun
  to live together, from symbios living together,
  from syn- bios life
• 1 the living together in more or less intimate
  association or close union of two dissimilar
  organisms
• 2 the intimate living together of two
  dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial
  relationship

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OASIS Roles in Localisation

• Producer of Localisation Standards
• OASIS XLIFF TC
• OASIS Translation Web Services TC
• Consumer of Localisation Services
• Localisation of OASIS website
• Translation of OASIS collateral documents
• Member organizations translating OASIS technical
  specifications and user documents
• Supporter of Localisation Organizations
• LISA
• LRC (Content Partner XML.org Localisation Focus
  Area)

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Symbiotic Relationship for OASIS the
Localisation Community

• Localisation Standards
• Localisation Service Providers invited to provide
  requirements and use case scenarios
• Localisation Software Vendors invited to
  participate in testing and interoperability
  demonstrations
• Localisation Services
• OASIS seeking collaboration on website
  internationalisation and localisation strategies
  to serve an international community
• Opportunity for localisation service providers to
  gain recognition for translating OASIS technical
  specifications and user documents
• Liaison with Localisation Organizations
• OASIS supporting IGNITE project
• OASIS seeking interested parties for future
  research on multi-lingual eBusiness project

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Observations eBusiness Transactions

• Encourage involvement of globalization experts on
  many of OASIS TCs

• Customer Info
• e-Government
• Emergency Management
• Open Building Info eXchange

• OpenDocument Format for Office
• UDDI
• WS for Remote Portals

• Create a new Committee focused on globalization
  of e-Business and Web Services transaction
  content
• OASIS Universal Business Language
• Other Organizations Content Vocabularies
• ACORD, EAN, ONCE, OTA, RosettaNet,

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UBL Localization Sub-CommitteesChinese,
Japanese, Korean, Spanish

• Translation of UBL specifications and associated
  documentation into the target language (including
  the definitions of the data elements)
• Construction of language-specific lookup tables
  for UBL element and attribute names
• Generation of publicity for UBL in the target
  locale
• Proposal of UBL extensions to accommodate
  locale-specific legal and business practices
• Building and maintaining a web site to provide
  information about UBL in the target language

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OASIS Adoption Forum

• 17-18 October 2005
• Hilton Metropole, London
• Ovum Analyst to Keynote on Open Standards and
  Open Source
• Explore Advances for e-Government, e-Health, and
  e-Commerce
• Special Add-On Event Showcases OpenDocument and
  DITA
• Attend to understand the trends, the status, and
  the actual business cases that drive this work
• http//www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_20
  05/

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Business Benefits of Participation in OASIS
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Membership Benefits

• Influence
• Information
• Participation
• Education
• Co-ordination
• Credibility
• Visibility
• Openess

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End-User Company Benefits

• Educate employees on trends and developments of
  technology
• Learn and adopt best practices
• Influence direction and priorities of standards
  development by providing business requirements
• Evaluate and observe vendors in their
  implementation and product directions
• Participate in interoperability demos by
  providing business scenarios
• See practical implementation from multiple
  vendors for given scenarios

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University and Research Centre Benefits

• Monitor state of the art in technology and
  standards development
• Propose new ideas and get feedback to those ideas
• Reduce the time to market from concept to wide
  spread adoption
• Create a broader market for adoption of
  development from your research projects
• Gain visability for your project efforts
• Establish closer ties with more busineses and
  industry organisations

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OASIS Value

• Sanction x Traction Adoption
• Twelve years demonstrated success
• Neutral and independent
• Technical and procedural competence
• Worldwide visibility and outreach
• Close coordination with peer standards
  organizations on a global level
• Relevance, Openness, Implement-ability

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to
  put one's thoughts into action is the most
  difficult thing in the world.
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Contact Information Patrick Gannon President
CEO patrick.gannon_at_oasis-open.org 1.978.761.3546

• www.oasis-open.org

• www.xml.org

• www.xml.coverpages.org

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Patrick J. Gannon

• OASIS C.E.O., President, Board Director (2001-)
• UNECE Chair, Team of Specialists for Internet
  Enterprise Development (2000-2002)
• BEA Systems Sr. VP Strategic Marketing
• Netfish Technologies VP Industry Standards
• Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Exec. Dir.
• RosettaNet First Project Leader (1998)
• CommerceNet VP Strategic Programs
• XML eCommerce Evangelist (1997-1999)
• Interoperable Catalog WG (1995-1998)
• PIDX, CIAG, PVF Roundtable, CIMIS (1988-1995)