During the next two weeks, the participants will design and specify a simple extension. An essential part of the warmup phase is that participants get accustomed with the tools and get a good understanding of the level of detail that is necessary to communicate with off-shore developers. An important property of Coliseum is the fact, that it allows a separation between the person who creates the original version of a document including the complete layout and the person who translates a document. Coliseum may be used in a way, that a translator has a most simple user interface and is not able to modify or destroy the layout of a document. Furthermore, Coliseum implements a sophisticated workflow management, which covers the whole process of the manual creation and translation.
Persons being spread all over the world are able to collaborate in virtual teams.
Special community features support this new style of workflow. Here is the list of key features of Coliseum that distinguishes it from competitive products. The target documents in the desired languages are generated automatically by the system. Human translators can only change the text. Translators are not able to destroy the layout of a document.