Roles and Responsibilities in the Localization Process

As a general rule, most companies have the following groups contributing to the creation of content and the localization process:

Role	Responsible For
Authors	Creating, modifying, and maintaining the content in the main Author-it library.
Reviewers	Reviewing Author-it content.
Localization Coordinator	Coordinating and managing the localization process, including overseeing the translation. This role may be shared with a translation company or companies.
Translators	Translating content into the target language.
Localization Reviewers	Reviewing translated content.

While the workflow and specific responsibilities may differ from one company to the next, the roles are generally very similar.