Assessing support for community workflows in localisation

Abstract

This paper identifies a set of workflow patterns necessary to support community-oriented localisation. Workflow pattern discovery is based on use case analysis of five community translation tools, and modelled using the Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL) notation. An analysis is presented of the support for these baseline patterns in two mainstream enterprise-oriented Translation Management Systems (TMS) - GlobalSight and WorldServer. A gap is identified with respect to the emerging need for community-oriented workflows and their potential support in mainstream enterprise localisation architectures. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.