These courses will be recognised as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Certified Localisation Professional (CLP), grade 1, awarded by the Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP).

All courses will be run by professional tutors. Courses will be ‘hands-on’. The maximum number of participants will be 20. Courses will be delivered in state-of-the-art laboratories at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland.

On successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate which will be recognised by The Institute of Localisation Professionals as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Certified Localisation Professional (CLP), Grade 1.

Registration and payment must be received by the LRC on or before 01 February 2002.

Registration 10:00 (Refreshments)
Session one 10:30 5 Step Model to Localizing Software Application
· Step 1 – Preparation of files for translation
· Step 2 – Leveraging from previous translations
· Step 3 - Translation of projects in catalyst
LUNCH 12:00
Session two 13:00 5 Step Model to Localizing Software Application, contd.
· Step 4 - Update management
· Step 5 - Post-translation tasks
BREAK 14:30
Session three 15:00 Alchemy CATALYST advanced training course
· A quick tour of xml
    o Preparing xml files for translation
    o Xml methods
    o The xml editors
    o Import xml translations
    o Encoding in xml
    o Validate expert
    o Other experts
· Catalyst text file parsing
· Advanced Leveraging options (ezMatch technology)
· Using Filters
· Setting advanced general options
· Extracting glossaries
· Quickship expert
· Language support in alchemy catalyst
· Catalyst 4.0 command line processing (EzScript)
CLOSE 16:30

Localisation Project Management 

This course provides an introduction to Localisation Project Management using case studies.

Day one (Tuesday, 05 February 2002)
Registration 10:00 (Refreshments)
Session one 10:30 Setting up the project
LUNCH 12:00
Session two 13:00 The team
BREAK 14:30
Session three 15:00 Communication
CLOSE day 1 16:30

Day two (Wednesday, 06 February 2002)
Session four 09:30 What if?
BREAK 11:00
Session five 11:30 Group exercise
LUNCH 13:00
Session six 14:30 Discussion of lessons learned
CLOSE 16:00

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This course provides an introduction to Localisation Translation and Documentation Engineering using TRADOS case studies. Successful participants will be recognised as Certified TRADOS Users (basic and advanced levels).

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This course provides an introduction to Localisation QA and Test Automation Engineering using SilkTest case studies. Successful participants will also be recognised as automated software test developers (specifically for localised application testing).

Day one (Tuesday, 12 February 2002)
Registration 13:30 (Refreshments)
Session one 14:00 Understanding SilkTest object recognition
BREAK 15:30
Session two 16:00 Capturing a test frame and window declarations
CLOSE day 1 17:30

Day two (Wednesday 13 February 2002)
Session three 09:00 Adding to the test frame
BREAK 10:30
Session four 11:00 Recording and running testcases
LUNCH 12:30
Session five 13:30 Development of Close and Invoke methods
BREAK 15:00
Session six 15:30 QA’s methodology for automated localisation testing
CLOSE day 2 17:00

Day three (Thursday, 14 February 2002)
Session seven 09:30 GUI test plug-in for SilkTest
BREAK 11:00
Session eight 11:30 Development of language independent testcases
LUNCH 13:00
Session nine 14:30 Course wrap up
CLOSE 16:00