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Organic.Lingua Co-funded by the the European Commission ICT Policy Support Programme. Contents. Identity Introduction The Organic.Edunet Web portal Objectives Technology Content Consortium Workplan Contact details. Organic.Lingua Identity. Project title
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Organic.LinguaCo-funded by the the European Commission ICT Policy Support Programme
Contents • Identity • Introduction • The Organic.Edunet Web portal • Objectives • Technology • Content • Consortium • Workplan • Contact details
Organic.Lingua Identity • Project title • Organic.Lingua: Demonstrating the potential of a multilingual Web portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education • Funded by the CIP ICT PSP • Theme 6: Multilingual Web • Objective 6.2: Multilingual Online Services • Duration 36 months • 1/3/2011- 28/2/2014 • Overall budget: 3.500.000 euros • Community funding: 1.750.000 euros (50%) • Project website: www.organic-lingua.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.
Introduction (1/2) • 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
Introduction (2/2) • Existing solution not using linguistic resources and tools • Cross-lingual search not enabled • Fragmentation of resource descriptions in several languages • Organic.Edunet to be transformed into a truly multilingual service
Objectives (1/3) Enhance the approach to linguistic support and coverage of the existing Organic.Edunet infrastructure. • Advance in the identification of user needs regarding linguistic support in on-line information services • Identify and explore new or anticipated user interface, functional and technical requirements related to linguistic technologies
Objectives (2/3) • Devise and validate innovative and effective methods, processes and workflows for linguistic support in Organic.Edunet • Enhance, extend and re-engineer the existing Organic.Edunet Web portal towards a wider and cost-effective multilingual support • broaden the current audience and impact of the service.
Objectives (3/3) • Deploy large pilots trials that demonstrate a cost-effective approach for delivering language technologies in existing Web portals based on open standards and open source software, • Develop good practice guides and awareness on the practical application of language technologies,
Vision Boost knowledge on Organic Agriculture and Agroecology “Boost the usage, exploitation and extension of knowledge on Organic Agriculture and Agroecology by using new/ innovative ways to facilitate searching and to minimize the segmentation of knowledge due to lingual barriers through the introduction of automated multilingual services, supported by a quality-controlled collaborative and interactive approach while developing a sustainable, low-cost and re-usable solution to the problem of multilinguality across Europe and the whole globe.” Minimize the segmentation of knowledge Introduce automated multilingual services Sustainable, low-costandre-usable solution
Main Users • School teachers • Academics/researchers • Students • Informal/ lifelong Learners • Content stakeholders/providers
Technical components • 1. Organic.Edunet Web portal platform • 2. MoKi Tool • 3. CELI Multilingual Software Modules • 4. Know-Miner Framework • 5. MATRAX • 6. Xerox Incremental Parser (XIP) • 7. Agricultural Learning Repository Tool • 8. Turkish Agricultural Learning Objects Repository (TrAgLor)
Content • Focus on two existing repository cases • Miksike’s Estonian repository • www.miksike.ee • UAH’s Spanish repository • www.agroecologia.net, • www.uah.es
Content • Introduction of two new repositories • INRA’s institutional repository • www.prodinra.inra.fr • Cukurova University’s repository • (TragLOR) • http://traglor.cu.edu.tr
Need more information? • Want to get affiliated with Organic.Lingua? • Visit: • http://www.organic-lingua.eu • Email: info@organic-lingua.eu