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Welcome to opentag.com, This site is dedicated to the tools and technologies used in the translation and localization of software, Web applications and documentation. Its aim is to provide you with useful information and tools that could help you streamline your processes.

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) is a set of attributes and elements designed to help the internationalization and localization of XML material. It is a W3C Recommendation.

A new version of the ITS recommendation is being developped by the Multilingual Web LT Working Group. The latest published version of ITS 2.0 includes new features such as Localization Quality Issues and Rating, MT Confidence, Locale Filter, Text Analysis, and much more.

Comment on the Latest Specification of ITS 2.0

The Okapi Framework is a Java-based free, cross-platform and open-source project that is composed of a set of libraries, components and applications to help in the various tasks related to localization and translation. See more...
It offers:

Filters to extract source text and merge back translation for many file formats.
Powerful steps that perform various tasks such as pre-translation with translation memories and machine translation, segmentation, alignment, encoding conversion, file format conversion, quality checking, etc.
Ready-to-use tools such as Rainbow, Tikal, Ratel or CheckMate, and much more.

The Best Practices for XML Internationalization has been published as a W3C Working Group Note.
This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. See more...

If you are looking to use translation memories and machine translation, here are a few possibly useful resources:

The Microsoft Translator Hub, the Google Translate API, and the Google Translator Toolkit
Moses and the M4Loc open-source project
Apertium, another open-source project
The Translate Toolkit's tmserver and Amagama
OmegaT and Anaphraseus

The XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) is the standard to exchange extracted text between tools.
See the OASIS XLIFF TC Web pages for more information.

The version 2.0 of XLIFF is being developped. The latest editor's draft is available.

Interested in applying best internationalization practices when developing your Web site?
Then, follow the work of the W3C i18n GEO group on "Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0". See more...