Jaap van der Meer Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.
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Press Releases
TAUS Launches Matching Data
by Jaap van der Meer 14 Jan 2019
Amsterdam, January 14, 2019 - TAUS launches Matching Data: a new technique of selecting language ..
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Press Releases
TAUS Forms New Partner Foundation Board
by Jaap van der Meer 11 Jan 2019
Amsterdam, January 11, 2019 - Eight of the world’s largest stakeholders in content translation ..
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Dynamic Quality Framework
Eight Years of DQF Bring Us Closer to Fixing the Operational Gap
by Jaap van der Meer 7 Jan 2019
Thanks to DQF In November 2011, TAUS published the foundational report for the Dynamic Quality ..
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Language Data
Ten Years of TAUS Data Cloud Taught Us How to Fix the Data Gap
by Jaap van der Meer 7 Jan 2019
In 2008, TAUS launched the Data Cloud, the first (and only) industry-shared language data ..
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Food for Thought
Fixing the Translation Ecosystem
by Jaap van der Meer 30 Oct 2018
For as long as there has been a translation industry there has been severe competition, first ..
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Food for Thought
Three Good Reasons to Celebrate GDPR
by Jaap van der Meer 7 May 2018
Data are indispensable in almost any business and industry these days. The translation and content ..
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Why Translation Innovation Starts in Japan
by Jaap van der Meer 15 Feb 2018
It takes just a day of wandering in Tokyo as a non-Japanese speaker to understand why translation ..
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Locamaniacs Versus Globaloneys
by Jaap van der Meer 14 Sep 2017
The translation industry is experiencing a most exciting time of opportunities. In my previous ..
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Language Data
5 Reasons for Quality Managers to be Obsessed About Data
by Jaap van der Meer 6 Sep 2017
What is a Quality Manager in a translation company doing? Checking the quality of the translations, ..
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Food for Thought
The Story of the Translation Industry in ‘22
by Jaap van der Meer 18 Apr 2017
On March 22-24 (2017), fifty people came together in a former clandestine church in Amsterdam to ..
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Events
Automotive Translation Goes High-Tech
by Jaap van der Meer 6 Dec 2016
On 11 November, Daimler hosted an Automotive Translation Roundtable organized by TAUS and berns ..
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Events
The Three P’s That Make a Good Conference
by Jaap van der Meer 8 Nov 2016
What makes a good conference? If you ask me, the answer is: purpose, people and program. As simple ..