Process
Articles listed here focus on the localization process, and the relationship between globalization, internationalization, and localization.
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Localization: The Global Pyramid Capstone
by Richard Sikes
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Published in MultiLingual magazine, April 2009.
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Reprinted on this site by kind permission of MultiLingual magazine.
Abstract:
"... even in our relatively knowledgeable and harmonious world of software localization, substantial discrepancies exist in what industry participants understand about how globalization differs from internationalization, and how both of these two differ from localization."
Based on richly anecdotal explanations, this article proposes definitions for these three widely-used, but poorly understood, industry terms.
Current Topics in Medical Localization
by Richard Sikes
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Published in MultiLingual magazine, March 2006.
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Abstract:
If two localization professionals begin to chat about the special problems that their work entails, a fair amount of energy is developed. Get five or six on the phone in a conference call, and the energy abounds. Multiply that by six or seven in a round table setting, and a synergistic “wow factor” really sets in. Professionals responsible for localization work in the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries deal with a special set of problems that those in the “classical” localization industry do not. When they have an occasional chance to meet under the auspices of the Localization World conference in a round table setting just for them, they discover ...
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