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Finding online educational resources for organic Vocational Education & Training: The language barrier. CerOrganic European Conference – Athens, 6/12/2011. Giannis Stoitsis , Alexios Dimitropoulos Agro-Know Technologies. Online material for Vocational Education and training.
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Finding online educational resources for organic Vocational Education & Training: The language barrier CerOrganic European Conference – Athens, 6/12/2011 GiannisStoitsis, Alexios Dimitropoulos Agro-Know Technologies
Online material for Vocational Education and training • Significant amount of material could be found on the web • Search limitations • Quality issues • Language barriers • Why to use a learning federation • Institutional collections • Better content retrieval • Quality strategy
About • Access to digital learning resources on Organic Agriculture and Agroecology • Facilitate access, usage and exploitation • Developed in the context of an eContent+ program http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Organic.Edunet in figures 3600 registered users Officially launched on 1/1/2010 Visits from 177 countries 11.000 resources from 13 institutional collections Unique visits: ~60.000 Total visits: ~80.000 Pageviews: 264.00 More than 150 visitors per day during last year
Registered Users http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Educational Level http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Collections http://www.organic-edunet.eu
User interface:17 languages • Content in 8 languages • Ontology: 17 languages http://www.organic-edunet.eu
The need Enhance the existing Organic.Edunet Web portal by introducing automated multilingual services that will further support the uptake of the portal by its targeted audiences, facilitate the multilingual features of the portal, and further extend its geographical and linguistic coverage. http://www.organic-edunet.eu
The Organic.Lingua project http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Rational • Organic.Edunet (http://www.organic-edunet.eu) not fully exploiting language technologies • Translation error prone and time consuming • Opportunities to enhance the quality and efficiency of cross-language functions • Fragmentation of resource descriptions in several languages • Organic.Edunet to be transformed into a truly multilingual service http://www.organic-edunet.eu
The re-engineered Organic.Edunet portal http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Outcomes • Integration of multilingual services • Cross language information retrieval • Automatic translation of interface, metadata and content • Generation of content in many languages http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Increase multilanguage interface support http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Automatic translation of metadata in more than 8 languages http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Translate document http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Integrate cross language information retrieval http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Automatic translation of metadata Translate Automatic translation of metadata Translate http://www.organic-edunet.eu
User generated content (1/2) Add resource from any web site Drag this button to your favorites bar. When you find a resource on the web click on the button to submit Add resource http://www.organic-edunet.eu
User generated content (2/2) User Generated Content Services Tomate Ecológico Organic Tomato Tomate Ecológico Organic Tomato Save Approve Machine Translation Translate Save Approve http://www.organic-edunet.eu
New Content • Multilingual Metadata • Resources available in more languages • New Repositories to be connected http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Need more information? • Want to get affiliated with Organic.Lingua? • Visit: • http://www.organic-lingua.eu • Email: info@organic-lingua.eu http://www.organic-edunet.eu