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Translation and Request Quote

This section covers the request for a quote and the request for translations, as by and large, they require the same information to be submitted.

Reject quote has been removed from the previous specification draft as this is probably not core to requirements (and quotes will eventually go out of date regardless)

Suspend/Cancel has been moved to the last section as again more a useful than core requirement.

Job Identifiers (Job Tickets)

One definition shared across all methods in this section and in fact in future sections, is job identifiers.

  1. Job identifiers are created on the customer side. They can be created before there has been a quote request or job submission. This could be used to submit a resource such as a translation memory prior to the job submission.
  2. A unique identifier will be allocated to each individual atomic file/language entity. The granularity of the entity will be defined at the “file/language” pair level as submitted by the customer.
  3. The file itself may be an archive file that contains more than one translatable file. No further granularity in identifying the job will be allocated over and above the containing archive file level.
  4. The standard will not concern itself with any grouping of the identifiers into any form of ontological entities or otherwise. It is up to the customer and/or supplier to implement any desired grouping of the unique identifiers for their own purposes (i.e. overall deliverable tracking or billing).
  5. The standard is not concerned with the format of the identifier.

Getting a Quote and Placing an Order


Call 1
requestQuote Job ticket created by publisher. Meta data sent about the job. The location of a file can be indicated using a URI. Quote information returned
Call 2
retrieveQuote Quote is retrieved by the calling client
Call 3
acceptQuote Quote is accepted by the publisher. Payment information is sent


As an alternative, the client can simplify the transaction:

Call 1
submitJob Job ticket created by publisher. Meta data sent about the job. File can be attached as a SOAP attachment. Quote information returned