Interoperability Now!

Interoperability Now! is a group working to improve the interoperability of tools and technology within the localization industry.

What are we producing?

We have two primary areas of focus:

TIPP - The Translation Interoperability Protocol Package (TIPP) is an information container that allows the seamless exchange of information between different independent Translation Management Systems (TMS).
XLIFF:doc - A reference guide for representing documents in XLIFF files. The primary goal of XLIFF:doc is to provide a mechanism to allow lossless exchange of XLIFF data between tools in the localization workflow.

Our downloads page includes the most recent versions of the specifications and schema files. We have also made source code available for tool vendors interested in supporting the specifications to programmatically manipulate TIP packages.

Who’s involved?

BIOLOOM Group: Prof. Dr. Jörg Schütz
Kilgray: Peter Reynolds(@peterrey on Twitter), Gabor Ugray, Gergely Vándor
Medtronic: Micah Bly (@MicahBly on Twitter)
ONTRAM: Sven Andrä (@sca2g on Twitter), Timo Tretter
Spartan Software: Chase Tingley (@ctatwork on Twitter), Andrew Pimlott
XTM: Andrzej Zydron

What benefits will interoperability bring to your organization?

Are we working with other interoperability initiatives?

Yes! We are working with the Language Interoperability Portfolio Project (LINPORT) to ensure that both initiatives produce a single container package format.

Recent accomplishments

Please see our meeting notes and updates pages for on-going updates. Please also see our conferences page for details on presentations that we’ve given at different industry conferences.