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Welcome to Interoperability Now (IN)


Interoperability Now is a platform that invites everybody to contribute his/her ideas and concepts around the interoperability of tools and technology within language infrastructures.

This is not intended as yet another standardization committee. It’s more about committing to common values and aims. It’s about fostering interoperability and the use of open standards by bringing together the many sparks experienced in countless discussions on conferences (and unconferences), within companies and in blogs and papers.

The track records of standards within the localization and translation industry is not persuasive. Part of the idea behind this initiative is, that the problems lies one level below the standards. It's about mindsets.

There is a group of people and companies as a core team behind the initiative but the basic idea is to setup an open platform. The initiative is independent of any organization. Content and ideas published on this platform is creative common (see rules and licenses). In the best case there is no core team needed after a couple of weeks. The success of this initiative depends on the power of the community.

The Interoperability Manifesto is intended to be the first and most important milestone within this process. The page is the core page of this platform but will presumably stay empty for a couple of more weeks.

Right now the phrase language technology includes but is not limited to
  • Translation Management Systems (TMS)
  • Translation Memory Systems and Translator Tools (CAT Tools)
  • Project Accounting Systems
  • Engineering and Localization Tools
  • Source Systems (CMS, DMS,...)

This site is in a very early stage and will be promoted further as soon as some basic content is ready.

Feel free to participate, spread the word, criticize, inspire or acclaim.

You can instantly register (registration is only to avoid spam) by clicking on the register link on the top right


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Discussion The Initiative Background
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aims supporters general ideas on standards and interoperability
evaluation of the status quo time-line technology,tools and standards
assumptions people to invite for participation Interoperability on the Web?
approach Meeting Notes Interoperability in Conferences
Ideas for this Site?
rules



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