Internationalization as a part of the database development
Tatjana Welzer, Izidor Golob, Marjan Družovec, Aida Kamišalić · 2006
Nowadays development and research projects increasingly extend over boundaries set by a single company, research organisation or country. To compete successfully in this global information technology market, the internationalization of software, data and Web contents for disparate users is essential. Software internationalisation is the process of developing software products that are not dependent on specific local or cultural attributes or practise. It is becoming an increasingly important topic while software, data and Web contents gets integrated into the fabric of society and cultures worldwide. Things like date, time, currency symbols, and delimiters are handled seamlessly. More open are topics like quality assurance, standards and data modelling. Nevertheless to ensure the progress and up to date solutions, integration of internationalization contents in development of database are expected and have to be supported. Education of internationalization and localization-aware computer science professionals is so playing the key role. Experts have to cope with local cultural conventions that influence applications solutions and data modelling.