Linport: Terminology

The following terms have special meaning in the Linport project.

blueprint: a work in progress, not yet a draft standard, that will eventually be submitted to a standards body to help build a standard, that includes a data model and possible implementations of it
BTS: Bilingual Translation-project with Specifications (a Linport profile)
Linport: Language Interoperability Portfolio (“Linport” used ambiguously for the project, for the blueprint being created by the project and for instances of the data model evolving in the project)
portfolio: a collection of elements relevant to the authoring, translation/localization, and publication of content, sometimes called a package or an instance (there are a number of existing proprietary package formats that the Linport project hopes to bring together)
profile: a subset for a particular audience and purpose
Specifications: structured translation specifications compatible with www.ttt.org/specs. A set of specifications is central to a translation request.
template: an Xdossier-style description of a Linport data model
Xdossier: a data object based on a directory structure containing files in several formats, with an emphasis on key-value pairs, and designed for browsing with web browsers. Xdossier is mappable to XML (see http://dragoman.org/xdossier/)

Linport: The Language Interoperability Portfolio Project