Multilingual Information Architectures

Many information development teams face the challenge of delivering up-to-date, high-quality content to a global audience. With multilingual content, specialist skills are needed to spot pitfalls, evaluate and test technologies, and develop end-to-end solutions.

A properly implemented global information architecture will:

• Support local and international customers through a single, centrally-managed content database
• Improve the consistency of the information across multiple languages
• Reduce the cost of localization and updates
• Empower staff and customers in remote territories

3di uses its experience in international content engineering and provides support in:

• Multilingual character sets, fonts, and encoding schemes
• Designing international XML and data architectures
• Evaluating candidate applications for international use
• Auditing our customer’s existing applications and workflow for international use
• International usability, design, and testing for all information products
• Education and consulting services for content developers, designers, and project managers
• Design guidelines to improve localization engineering workflow