[Pangloss] [INFO] W3C Translation Service

[Chris Croome]

Hi

I just noticed this news item on the W3C site:

  W3C Translation Index Based on RDF

  12 May 2003: W3C thanks the volunteers who contributed thousands of
  hours translating W3C publications into more than 30 languages.
  Showcasing W3C Semantic Web, XML and internationalization
  technologies, data for volunteer translations of W3C technical reports
  and related documents is now maintained in RDF encoded in XML.
  Combining this metadata with other RDF, the translation index makes
  extensive use of Unicode, links to official versions, and can be
  viewed according to language or technology. 

  http://www.w3.org/News/2003#item84

The details of how it is done are here:

  Files and Scripts Used in Managing W3C Translations
  http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/Overview.html

Basically it's RDF, and Python.  

Chris
  
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