Resources for localization
Bob Doyle has announced his new site, http://www.cms-global.org, a resource on globalization and content management. By means of filtered RSS feeds from CMS-News.org, it aggregates bloggers in the globalization field, including John Yunker, Don DePalma, and Multilingual magazine’s Blogos.
The site has glossaries of terms for globalization, localization, and machine translation, as well as links to bilingual glossaries in specialized fields. It also lists professional organizations worldwide.
The home page has been localized into a few languages. For example, the site serves Spanish to a browser set to Spanish. Bob hopes to do more languages (especially right-to-left languages and Asian double-byte languages) in the future.
The CM Pros Globalization Community will be working with the website committee to localize the CM Pros website navigation into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, right-to-left Hebrew, and double-byte Japanese.
Bob’s EContent column of October 3, 2006 is “Localizing Your Content.”