XLIFF Mapping to RDF

Anastasiou, Dimitra

doi:10.1075/jial.2.04ana

Article published In: The Journal of Internationalization and Localization
Vol. 2 (2012) ► pp.66–96

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XLIFF Mapping to RDF

Dimitra Anastasiou | University of Bremen

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Published online: 26 May 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jial.2.04ana

This paper discusses the lack of interoperability between file formats, standards, and applications. We suggest a mapping from the ‘XML Localisation Interchange File Format’ (XLIFF) into the ‘Resource Description Framework’ (RDF) in order to enhance interoperability between a metadata standard and a metadata model. Three use cases are provided (a minimal, a modular and one with alternative translations); each one with a source (XLIFF), an output (RDF), and an ‘Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations’ (XSLT) file. We explain in detail how the XLIFF file elements and attributes can be matched by the XSLT. Believing in the symbiotic relationship for a more effective way of presenting multilingual content on the Web, we developed a conversion tool to translate from XLIFF into RDF in order to automate the process. Our contribution is to translate XLIFF into RDF in order to facilitate ontology localisation, i.e. localise monolingual ontologies and populate Semantic Web approaches with localisation-related metadata.

Keywords: interoperability, conversion, standards, RDF, localisation, XLIFF

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