Global information management Metrics eXchange or GMX is a collection of current and proposed
standards Standard may refer to:
Symbols
* Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs
* Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification
Norms, conventions or requirements
* Standard (metrology), an object th ...
, primarily targeted at the needs of the
translation
Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...
industry. They are concerned with measuring quantitatively aspects of a document, particularly those with relevance to the translation process (e.g. word counts, complexity) and were being standardised by
Localization Industry Standards Association Localization Industry Standards Association or LISA was a Swiss-based trade body concerning the translation of computer software (and associated materials) into multiple natural languages, which existed from 1990 to February 2011. It counted among i ...
as part of the
Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization until the demise of LISA. The primary use cases are in quoting, estimating and billing translation work.
GMX-Volume
GMX-V is the first of the three standards to be completed, it forms part of the
Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization reference architecture and attempts to measure volume in two ways:
* Establish a verifiable way of calculating the primary word and character counts for a given electronic document.
* Establish a specific XML vocabulary that enables the automatic exchange of metric data
An open source implementation of the GMX/V standard, provided b
Gould Tech Solutions is available a
https://code.google.com/p/gmx-v/
GMX-Complexity
GMX-Quality
References
External links
Technical communication
XML
XML-based standards
Markup languages
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