Global information management Metrics eXchange

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Global information management Metrics eXchange or GMX is a collection of current and proposed standards, primarily targeted at the needs of the translation 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 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.

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Localization Industry Standards Association or LISA was a Swiss-based trade body concerning the translation of computer software into multiple natural languages, which existed from 1990 to February 2011. It counted among its members most of the large information technology companies of the period, including Adobe, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, McAfee, Nokia, Novell and Xerox.

OAXAL: Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization is an Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standards-based initiative to encourage the development of an open Standards approach to XML Authoring and Localization. OAXAL is an official OASIS Reference Architecture Technical Committee.

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:

An open source implementation of the GMX/V standard, provided by Gould Tech Solutions, is available at https://code.google.com/p/gmx-v/.

GMX-Complexity

GMX-Quality

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