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TinyTM - Roadmap

Use Cases

TinyTM aims to cover the following use cases, roughly in the given order.

• Single Freelancer
  A single freelance translator can use TinyTM to translate his texts in MS-Word.
   
  
• Small Translation Agency
  A small translation uses TinyTm to manage their internal translation processes in MS-Word.
   
  
• XML Translation
  One or more translators translate tagged text such as XML or HTML.
   
  
• TMX Im-/Export
  A translation company wants to im-/export TM assets in TMX format.
   
  
• Browser Translation
  One or more translators a) upload a structured text (XML or HTML) into a TinyTM web GUI, b) translate the text with TM support and c) download the result.
   
  
• Large Translation Agency
  A large translation agency wants to consolidate all translations on TinyTM.
   
  

Roadmap Steps

In order to cover important use cases as quickly as possible, we propose to develop the following TinyTM milestones.

• Create a basic Client and Server
  The very first combination is a MS-Word macro that accesses a PostgreSQL server directly via ODBC. Covers part of Use Cases 1 and 2 (without administration pages).
   
  
• Setup public demo server
  Once the basic Client and Server are ready, we need to setup a public demo server where interested users can download a preconfigured Client with a hard-coded Server address, so that they can immediately test the environment. Does not cover a specific Use Case, but is important for the dissemination of TinyTM.
   
  
• Integrate with Omega-T
  OmegaT is an open-source translation memory written in Java capable of editing XML and HTML files. We would add a TinyTM backend interface OmegaT, providing OmegaT with fuzzy matching.Covers Use Case 3 and 4.
   
  
• User & Group Administration for Server
  The ]project-open[ team will provide a reference implementation of user and group administration by integrating TinyTM with ]po[. Covers Use Cases 1 and 2 completely.
   
  
• Wrap-up Protocol Specs
  Once the demo environment works - more or less - we would release the protocol specs so that other clients can access the server.
   
  
• Optimize Fuzzy Retrieval for Large TMs
  We need to optimize the backend fuzzy retrieval in order to deal with TMs beyond a certain size. In particular, we would need to introduce something like a "trigram based fuzzy index" or similar concepts. This is one of the requirements for Use Cases 6 and 7.
   
  

Roadmap

 

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