The Service-Oriented Localisation Architecture Solution (SOLAS) /ˈsɒləs/, enables the global conversation in communities and is an open source project of The Rosetta Foundation.
The original design was further developed as an open translation and localisation space at the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland, part-financed by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI),[1] the Irish Governments research funding agency, and industry partners.
[2] SOLAS was demonstrated at the AGIS (Action for Global Information Sharing) event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2011.
The ORM Design Principles guiding the design of SOLAS were introduced by Reinhard Schäler, Director LRC at the University of Limerick, Ireland, at the LRC XVII – Social Localisation event and at TM-Europe (Warsaw, 4–5 October 2012).
SOLAS Productivity currently consists of six components, all sharing an XLIFF-based[6] common data layer: At the University of Limerick: