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Experiences in creating multilingual web sites

Luis Bellido Triana Encarna Pastor

lbellido, epastor @dit.upm.es Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid October 2010

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Projects

l Lingu@net WorldWide

Project

è Funded by EC, Lifelong

Learning Program

è Resources for language

teaching and learning

è 32 different access languages

by spring 2011

l Based on

www.linguanet-europa.org

l Multilingual search in a

catalog of resources

è limited to translations of

metadata

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Lingu@net Europa Plus Funded by EC, Socrates & Lingua Programs, 2003-06 24 partners from 19 countries in Europe

Projects

l Language Teaching pages in the EU language

portal

è 20 different access languages è “multilingual links” issue

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People

l Language teaching

professionals

è Not professional

translators

è Different levels of

computer skills

l Technical team (UPM)

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Tools

l UTF-8 l HTML l DTD l XML l XSLT l CSS l Gettext files (.po) l MS-Office l Apache l Java Sevlets, JSP l Tomcat l Lucene l TAL, DMTL (Zope)

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Lingu@net Architecture

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Tomcat servlet container Template Translation Manager translation files Apache httpd Search engine servlet Lucene search and index library resource index dynamically generated HTML page templates XSLT declarations localised XML contents localised JSPs CSS and graphical files localised HTML files XML resource descriptions

“Static content” architecture

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Template Translation Manager translation files Apache httpd page templates XSLT declarations localised XML contents CSS and graphical files localised HTML files XML resource descriptions CMS localised XML files

Multilingual links

l Same resource in different languages

è But not all the languages of the site

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Links to pages not translated (yet) in all the languages of a multilingual site

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Links to external resources

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en es

Multilingual links

l What do we show to the user

è If the resource is available in the current language? è If the resource is not available in the current language?

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No link?

─

Link to the resource in a default language?

q

Taking into account browser language preferences?

q

Several available resources?

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Link to all available resources?

l A CMS supporting all of the above?

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Multilingual links

l Our initial prototype

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Original gettext files with links Translation Management System XSLT Multilingual links database Translations database Translators Translation gettext files with multilingual links

Experiences in creating multilingual web sites

Thank you!