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Requirements form the thread that connects all the disciplines of development and quality assurance together around common objectives; furthermore, requirements provide the contract between the customer and the development team.

good requirements definition and requirements management practices are a major contributor to project success

Power shifts in web-based translation memory

The study finds that, while the interests of most stakeholders in the localisation process are well served by this web-based arrangement, it can involve drawbacks for freelancers.

translators lose autonomy through an inability to retain the linguistic assets they generate.

Title: Future web-based translation environments  Presenter: Stefan Kreckwitz For many years Web applications have found their way into the translation industry. These applications were predominantly limited to terminology systems and project portals. As is common for conventional Web applications, the user interaction was read-only or form-based. In the meantime, Web 2.0 appeared as a term for the new generation of Web applications. Apart from social aspects, Web 2.0 designates a combination of technologies, which can enable rich user interfaces and PC-equivalent interactivity. Some manufacturers of translation software have recognized the potential of Web 2.0 and work on Web-based translation environments. The advantages of these solutions are promising. But at present Web-based translation environments are quite restricted in comparison to the market-leading Windows applications.  The talk is about the challenges and opportunities of prospective Web-based translation environments. Apart from the functional convergence to Windows-based counterparts, the talk addresses ideas like "software as a service" and the harnessing of collective intelligence.

Openoffice plugin providing integration with GoogleDocuments and Zoho

communicate and collaborate on a project or an engagement without relying on email

Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center

This is an interesting move, and it has broad implications for the translation industry, which up until now has been fragmented and somewhat behind the times, from a technology standpoint

Google has been investing significant resources in a multi-year effort to develop its statistical machine translation technology.

the "LHC Grid,

"This is the next step after the Web," says David Colling, a scientist at Britain's Imperial College, which is contributing to the Grid. "Except that unlike the Web, you're sharing computing power and not files."

the experience of collaborating on such a large computing project has proved invaluable,

CERN, one of the largest users of grid technology, talk of The Grid: "a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the Internet."

Grids can be categorized with a three stage model of departmental grids, enterprise grids and global grids.

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