History: Platform requirements

Translation Crowdsourcing Platform Requirements, Moderator Willem Stoeller

What is a platform?

* Marketplace where people who need translation and people who can provide translation meet and exchange jobs
* Set of tools for text translation and text creation, focusing on crowdsourcing framework
* Shared resources, such as terminologies and translation memories

How are translation communities formed?

* Community already exists
* Community needs to be recruited. Need a mechanism for organizing a crowd around a particular project.
* Broad community exists, around open source development or common

What is the role of existing software platforms? What can they do well? How can they work together?

Basic requirement/goal is that it be cloud-based. However, some interesting work could be downloaded and processed locally, then shared on the cloud.

Virtually any translation environment tool (TEnT) could host a translation crowdsourcing tool.

There is a continuum of engagement and cost, from free and voluntary to paid and controlled.

What translation crowdsourcing options are available today? How do you choose one that works for your requirement?

Lingotek integrated with WorldServer for LDS Church to handle crowdsourcing requirement.

Open source examples include Transifex, Launchpad, Sun open tools for translation.

What are the fundamental requirements of a translation crowdsourcing platform?

The requirement of a platform is that it be able to some set of applications; the requirement of an application is that it be able to support some set of tasks.