CerOrganic European Conference – Athens, 6/12/2011

Finding online educational resources for organic Vocational Education & Training: The language barrier

Giannis Stoitsis, Alexios Dimitropoulos Agro-Know Technologies

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

Online material for Vocational Education and training

Organic.Edunet Web portal

Access to digital learning resources on

Organic Agriculture and Agroecology

Facilitate access, usage and exploitation

Developed in the context of an eContent+

program

About

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Organic.Edunet in figures

Unique visits: ~60.000 Total visits: ~80.000Pageviews: 264.00More than 150 visitors per day during last year

Visits from 177 countries

Officially launched on 1/1/2010

11.000 resources from 13 institutional collections

3600 registered users

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Collections

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User interface:17 languages Content in 8 languages Ontology: 17 languages

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Portal language

Interface Metadata Application

profile

Metadata Available resources

English √ √ 10880 8276

Greek √ √ 1356 323

Deutsch √ √ 1509 1076

Spanish √ √ 599 99

Estonian √ √ 1241 303

French √ √ 174 3

Italian - - - -

Turkish √ √ - -

Arabic √ √ - -

Hungarian √ √ 2204 269

Bulgarian √ √ - -

Hindi √ √ - -

Norwegian √ √ - -

Romanian √ √ 1249 115

Russian √ √ 1012 27

Slovenian √ √ 2 1

Chinese √ √ - -

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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.

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The Organic.Lingua project

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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

Rational

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The re-engineered Organic.Edunet portal

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Integration of multilingual services

Cross language information retrieval

Automatic translation of interface, metadata

and content

Generation of content in many languages

Outcomes

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Increase multilanguage interface support

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Automatic translation of metadata in more than 8 languages

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Translate

document

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Integrate cross language information retrieval

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Automatic translation of

metadata

Automatic translation of

metadata

Translate

Translate

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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

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User generated content (2/2)

Translate

User Generated Content Services

Tomate Ecológico Organic Tomato

MachineTranslation

Tomate Ecológico Organic Tomato

Save Approve

Save Approve

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Multilingual Metadata

Resources available in more languages

New Repositories to be connected

New Content

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Need more information? Want to get affiliated with

Organic.Lingua? Visit:

http://www.organic-lingua.eu Email: info@organic-lingua.eu

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