The DASISH Translation Management Tool: Adapting Existing Software to DDI

The DASISH Translation Management Tool is an online service for supporting translation processes for large multilingual surveys. It has been available since 2004 for the renowned Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), but in order to comply with other software developed in the DASISH project it had to be adapted to support multiple surveys and therefore called for the use of DDI. Challenges were including multiple surveys, versioning, referencing identifying languages and locales, and attribute pairs defining status of the overall translation process. In EDDI 2013, the DASSISH Translation Management Tool was introduced with focus on user experience and interface. We now want to present the underlying architecture.