Service-Oriented Localisation Architecture Solution


The Service-Oriented Localisation Architecture Solution, or SOLAS, enables the global conversation in communities and is an open source project of The Rosetta Foundation.

History

SOLAS was conceived at The Rosetta Foundation Design Fest in San Francisco, 5–6 February 2011.
The original design was further developed as an open translation and localisation space at the Localisation Research Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland, part-financed by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation, a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology, supported by Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Governments research funding agency, and industry partners.
A YouTube video was published on 18 February 2011.
SOLAS was demonstrated at the AGIS event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2011.

ORM design principles

The SOLAS Design is based on the ORM Design Principles: O-pen, R-ight, and M-inimalistic. SOLAS consists of SOLAS Match and SOLAS Productivity. The ORM Design Principles guiding the design of SOLAS were introduced by Reinhard Schäler, Director at the University of Limerick, Ireland, at the event and at .

Open source and open standards

SOLAS Match has been released under an open source GPL license and can be downloaded from the web page. SOLAS has implemented open standards developed by the localisation community in and the .

SOLAS architecture

SOLAS is made up of SOLAS Match and SOLAS Productivity.

SOLAS Match

SOLAS Match is an open translation and localisation space that allow individuals with translation skills to find and download translation tasks in an intuitive and extremely user-friendly way; it also allows communities with translation requirements to upload translation tasks.
SOLAS Match has been used by The Rosetta Foundation very successfully in a number of pilot projects.

SOLAS Productivity

SOLAS Productivity supports the work of individuals working on translation tasks by offering them an easy to use translation environment and access to language and linguistic resources. SOLAS Productivity currently consists of six components, all sharing an XLIFF-based common data layer:

Contributors

At the University of Limerick: