Here's how your publication project succeeds:

• Bring in the translators, interpreters and related service providers as early as possible; agree on project leadership.
• Describe your objectives.
• Describe your target group(s) and the country/countries involved.
• Provide background information, such as:
• special fields; demonstration of equipment
• reference literature
• terminology sources
• selection of languages
• language technology support needed
• choice of media (printed copy, electronic publishing, print-on-demand)
• the budget.
• Introduce the people responsible, including text author(s)
• at your site
• at your partners' site.
• Set down procedures for approval; agree on quality criteria and level.
• Agree on deadlines.
• Agree on file formats, postal services, Internet resources (E-mail, FTP, WWW, groupware), etc. to be used in the project; time schedule for intermediate and final deliveries.
• Have the manuscripts read by the people responsible at home and abroad.
• Have the manuscripts edited by Transco-op.
• Hand over the manuscript files to the graphical designer.
• Hand over the manuscript files to the webmaster.
• Hand over the originals to the printer.
• Give Transco-op feedback - customer satisfaction, schedule, functionality of intermediate and final deliveries and of the end product.