[open-linguistics] Call for Participation: W3C Workshop - Making the Multilingual Web Work

Tue Dec 18 13:34:16 UTC 2012

Hi, all,
this might be interesting for the Open Lingustics community,
-- Tadej

    W3C Workshop - Making the Multilingual Web Work
    12 -- 13 March 2013, Rome

http://www.multilingualweb.eu/rome

Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication in all walks 
of life. Although English once dominated the Web, other languages are 
increasing their presence, with long-term economic and social impacts. 
If the Web is to deliver its promised benefits and live up to the ideal 
of a single, world-wide network, it is vitally important to ensure the 
/multilingual/ success of the World Wide Web.

The MultilingualWeb community <http://www.multilingualweb.eu/> develops 
and promotes best practices and standards related to all aspects of 
creating, localizing, and deploying the Web across boundaries of 
language. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and 
standards for dealing with language on the Internet and on identifying 
and resolving gaps that keep the Internet from living up to its global 
potential.

The core vehicle for these actions is a series of events 
<http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents> that started in 2010 (run 
by the initial MultilingualWeb Project and its successor, the 
MultilingualWeb-LT project). Following five highly successful events in 
Madrid, Pisa, Limerick, Luxembourg, and Dublin, the sixth workshop will 
be held in Rome and hosted by the *Food and Agriculture Organization of 
the United Nations (FAO) <http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm>*.

*Special interactive sessions planned for the W3C MultilingualWeb 
workshop in Rome, March 2013*
Led by experts in the field, two special break-out sessions on 
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Linked Open Data (LOD) are 
planned for the upcoming MultilingualWeb workshop, to be held at the 
headquarters of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in the heart 
of Rome,on 12-13 March. We will also continue the Open Space discussions 
that have been so popular in the past.

In addition, lunch-time exhibition sessions will showcase the recent 
work and progress made on implementing the ITS 2.0 specification, a 
major effort in the W3C to improve support for language- and 
translation-related processes.

Register soon to ensure you get a place, especially if you are 
interested in also speaking. See the Call for Participation 
(http://multilingualweb.eu/rome) for more information.

The W3C's MultilingualWeb workshops bring together approximately 150 
implementers, leading developers, localizers, researchers and users of 
the Web to discuss best practices and standards related to all aspects 
of creating, localizing and deploying the Web multilingually. One and a 
half days of presentations will be followed by break-out sessions that 
will allow attendees to explore additional topics in an in-depth, 
discussion-oriented fashion.

Participation is free.

If you have any questions, contact the program committee chair, Dr. Arle 
Lommel (arle.lommel at dfki.de <mailto:arle.lommel at dfki.de>).
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