Getting Documentation Ready for Localization - The Audience Speaks

Don't you love it when the audience is listening? Even more when they write back?

Last week's post included a handful of considerations about preparing documentation for localization. An alert reader and industry veteran (who prefers obscurity to the onslaught of Web-fame that this post will undoubtedly unleash) sent me a table of resources she has compiled on the topic over several years' time:

Title	Publisher	Summary and Notes
25 Tactics to “Internationalize” your English	Intercom (STC magazine)	Hints on writing localization-friendly copy. (One example: choose words with one or few meanings).
Authoring and controlled language	TAUS (Translation Automation User Society)	A guide to how and why companies are starting to manage their writing and editing “upstream.”
Basic Tips for Loc Writing	Globalvision International	A brief overview from a translator’s perspective on how to simplify the work of the translator.
Color Connotations	Lionbridge	Guidelines on how different colors are perceived throughout the world.
Localizing Art	Globalvision International	Tips on how to improve graphics localization.
Reducing Localization Costs	Globalvision International	Tips on how to write text that is less expensive to localization – both new copy and updates.
Tech Writing for Localization	Client Side News Magazine – Tech Writer supplement	How culture and jargon impacts writing and localization. Tips on the purpose and benefits of standards and templates.
Terminology Management White Paper	Jonckers	Why consistent terminology is important to localization.
Writing for Translation	Multilingual Magazine	Tips on how to simplify text. Information on how DITA impacts localization.

The contributor comments, "Please note that some of this is proprietary to the publisher and not generally available."

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