Service-Oriented Localisation Architecture Solution

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

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 (LRC) at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland, part-financed by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the Irish Governments research funding agency, and industry partners. A YouTube video was published on 18 February 2011. SOLAS was demonstrated at the AGIS (Action for Global Information Sharing) event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2011.

The SOLAS Design is based on the ORM Design Principles: O-pen (easy to join and to participate), R-ight (serve the right task to the right volunteer), and M-inimalistic (crisp, clear, uncluttered). SOLAS consists of SOLAS Match (matching projects and volunteers) and SOLAS Productivity (as suite of translation productivity tools and language resources). The ORM Design Principles guiding the design of SOLAS were introduced by Reinhard Schäler, Director LRC at the University of Limerick, Ireland, at the LRC XVII - Social Localisation event and at TM-Europe (Warsaw, 4–5 October 2012).

SOLAS Match has been released under an open source GPL license and can be downloaded from the SOLAS web page. SOLAS has implemented open standards developed by the localisation community in OASIS (XLIFF) and the W3C (ITS).

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