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

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

─  Links to external resources

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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?

─  No link? ─  Link to the resource in a default language?

q  Taking into account browser language preferences? q  Several available resources?

─  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!