Multilingual Web

The Multilingual Web is an EU funded project whose primary goal is to provide: “Multilingual Web content management: standards and best practices”. This project is destined to run for 24 months starting in April 2010. It is part of the COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) EU Initiative. The main role of the project is to examine how the multilingual Web can be improved through standards and best practices:

Dissemination/Outreach

1. Four public events
2. Web site (http://www.multilingualweb.eu )^[1]
3. Other items (unfunded, developed by W3C based on input from partners)
   • Educational material/curriculum
   • Test results (see http://www.w3.org/International/tests/)
   • Internationalization Checker (see http://qa-dev.w3.org/i18n-checker)^[2]

Organization

1. Thematic Network funded by the European Commission (ICT PSP Grant Agreement No. 250500, and as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme)
2. Duration: 24 months from 1 April 2010
3. European Commission (EC) Funding: 414,000 EUR
4. Coordination: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)/European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
5. EC Project Officer: Kimmo Rossi
6. Project Coordinator: Richard Ishida

Participants

1. 22 partners from 15 countries all over Europe^[3]
2. Industry (providers or users of technology or services), Academia, Standardization Organizations
3. Covering wide range of subject areas: language technology, localization, browser development, content creation, social media ...

More Information

1. Thematic Network Web Site
2. Overview Presentation
3. Thematic Network overview at the European Commission

Notes

1. ^ (Web site http://www.multilingualweb.eu )
2. ^ Internationalization Checker (see http://qa-dev.w3.org/i18n-checker)
3. ^ http://www.multilingualweb.eu/de/partners