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Challenges for a multilingual news provider Pursuing best practices and standards for BBC World Service Roberto Belo-Rovella David Vella Interactive Editor Software Engineer roberto.belo@bbc.co.uk david.vella@bbc.co.uk @robertobelo W3C


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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider Pursuing best practices and standards for BBC World Service Roberto Belo-Rovella

Interactive Editor

roberto.belo@bbc.co.uk @robertobelo David Vella

Software Engineer

david.vella@bbc.co.uk W3C Multilingual Web Workshop | Madrid, 26 October 2010

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider

  • News in 32* languages
  • Multilingual challenges past and present
  • The future is Mobile… with an old solution?
  • Design and interaction
  • Wishful thinking
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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

News in 32* languages

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider

  • News in 32* languages
  • Multilingual challenges past and present
  • The future is Mobile… with an old solution?
  • Design and interaction
  • Wishful thinking
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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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Multilingual challenges past and present

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Multilingual challenges past and present

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Multilingual challenges past and present

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider

  • News in 32* languages
  • Multilingual challenges past and present
  • The future is Mobile… with an old solution?
  • Design and interaction
  • Wishful thinking
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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Correct Display iPhone - iOS 3 (iPads) iPhone - iOS 4

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Correct Display iPhone - iOS 3 (iPads) iPhone - iOS 4

Psychology P-s-y-c-h-o-l-o-g-y

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Web design guidelines

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Web design guidelines “…do not use text as images…”

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Text Based

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Text Based Image Based

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Text Based Image Based

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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CMS

desktop text mobile

The future is Mobile…

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CMS

desktop text mobile image mobile

The future is Mobile…

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  • Images display in all mobile phones
  • Pango text rendering library www.pango.org
  • Average page size 45kB (vs 20kB text version)
  • Launched Aug 2010 – Hindi mobile traffic up by 50%
  • Developing image based sites for

Bengali, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Nepali and Burmese

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

  • Images display in all mobile phones
  • Pango text rendering library www.pango.org
  • Average page size 45kB (vs 20kB text version)
  • Launched Aug 2010 – Hindi mobile traffic up by 50%
  • Developing image based sites for

Bengali, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Nepali and Burmese

  • This is only temporary

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

The future is Mobile… with an old solution?

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Challenges for a multilingual news provider | Roberto Belo-Rovella & David Vella | October 2010

WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider

  • News in 32* languages
  • Multilingual challenges past and present
  • The future is Mobile… with an old solution?
  • Design and interaction
  • Wishful thinking
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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Design and interaction

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Design and interaction

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Design and interaction

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Left-to-Right Right-to-Left

Design and interaction

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Left-to-Right Right-to-Left NEXT NEXT

Design and interaction

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Design and interaction

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Don’t always assume space is available

Design and interaction

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Don’t always assume space is available

Design and interaction

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Design and interaction

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Design and interaction

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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Challenges for a multilingual news provider

  • News in 32* languages
  • Multilingual challenges past and present
  • The future is Mobile… with an old solution?
  • Design and interaction
  • Wishful thinking…
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Wishful thinking

  • Publish once and display correctly everywhere
  • Encourage proper font rendering references
  • Offer language expertise to mobile manufacturers
  • Rapidly deprecate support for older browsers
  • Offer platform agnostic, rich interactive experiences
  • Retire our picture mobile solution, as it won’t be needed!
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WORLD SERVICE FUTURE MEDIA

Roberto Belo-Rovella

Interactive Editor

roberto.belo@bbc.co.uk @robertobelo David Vella

Software Engineer

david.vella@bbc.co.uk

¡Gracias!

http://www.bbcworldservice.com/languages