Ocelot Gaining Global Momentum
Program Aiding Translation Process
March 02, 2017
Posted by: Simon Hodgkins, Chief Marketing Officer, Vistatec
Just over four years ago the first 400 lines of Ocelot source code were committed to GitHub.
Ocelot was born out of a Vistatec business requirement to finesse the process of linguistic quality review, with the aim of improving some poor ergonomics, removing double-entry and integrating with some industry standards. Although it was never conceived to be another Computer Aided Translation workbench, the current version has translator oriented features such as the use of translation memories, concordance search, and the visualization and movement of inline mark‑up. Ocelot’s dominant features are its foundation upon open standards: XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0, ITS 2.0, TMX and the Okapi Framework.
The first two years of Ocelot development was supported by the European Commission LT‑Web Project but Vistatec remains committed to it as a strategic application. Indeed, it is a core component of Vistatec’s Deep Content service and Vistatec remains the largest contributor within the open source community.
The list of contributors to the project is currently small but of very high quality. Some of the industry’s most experienced engineers have directly, or indirectly by way of the Okapi Framework, injected their knowledge and skill to the benefit of the wider localization industry. Special mention here to Spartan Software Inc. who have been supporters of the project since inception.
Phil Ritchie, Vistatec’s CTO and Ocelot’s founding architect comments: «I am delighted to see the recent upsurge in Ocelot downloads. When you don’t have to reinvent tools you can dedicate time to process innovation and pushing the state‑of‑the‑art. We use Ocelot in production with some of our largest customers and internally as a framework for research and development. I hope that Ocelot’s worldwide visibility will draw new committers to the project.»
You can find out more about all aspects of Ocelot in all of its open resources:
- Source code
- Downloads
- Wiki
- Issues Tracker
About Vistatec
Vistatec has been supporting some of the world’s most iconic brands to optimize their global commercial potential since 1997. Vistatec is one of the world’s leading localization solutions providers headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Mountain View, California, USA.
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