Nick Lambson

Localization Engineer, MediaLocate, Inc.

Nick Lambson is a localization engineer at MediaLocate and senior foreign teacher at Beijing Language and Culture University. He graduated with distinction with an MA in Translation and Localization Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Nick brings nearly 10 years of localization automation experience to tcworld China. His tools are at the foundation of localization workflows for innovative global companies in healthcare, tech, and finance. Nick automated the localization workflow of a Silicon Valley software company, accelerating it from three weeks to three days. Nick also develops machine translation data pipelines and language quality assessment tools for global enterprises.
Nick is well-known for teaching Python to translators both online on nicklambson.com and in the classroom at Beijing Language and Culture University. He is regularly invited as a guest speaker at universities around the world, and has spoken at conferences including the Monterey Forum and TAUS.

All Sessions by Nick Lambson

  • May 26


  • 09:55  - 10:40
    Converting technical documentation from DITA to Flare is challenging. Although Flare converts topic and map files with ease, variables, conrefs, and glossary terms get left behind. Nick completely automated the DITA to Flare conversion process with Python and shares his best practices in this talk. Engineers, architects, and programmers, please join us to learn software development best practices and Python skills for handling conversion between DITA, Flare, and more.

    Highlights: Attendees will come away from the talk better equipped to convert technical documentation formats by using Python. They will strengthen their technical knowledge of DITA, MadCap Flare, XML, Python programming, and software development. Nick will discuss the below points:
    agile development; pain points of Flare’s DITA import wizard; differences between DITA and Flare: topics, conrefs, variables, TOCs, glossary, index; software development environment; Python libraries: lxml, pandas, pathlib, re (regular expressions); modular code; and creating a one-click application.

    Where
    Technology Room




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