The document discusses enhancing an existing online portal called Organic.Edunet by introducing automated multilingual services to support more users and languages. It currently hosts over 10,000 resources in 8 languages from 11 collections and has over 3,100 registered users from 160+ countries. The project aims to develop methods for improved linguistic support, deploy multilingual technology pilots, and identify user needs regarding language support in online information services.

2. 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.

3.  10,967 resources, from 11 institutional collections
and 2 user communities
 Over 3,100 registered users
 More than 100 unique visitors/day from more than
160 countries
 Many different approaches to find resources

6.  User interface:17 languages
 Contents in 8 languages
 Ontology: almost 20 languages

7.  School teachers
 Academics/researchers
 Students
 Informal/ lifelong Learners
 Content stakeholders/providers

8.  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.

9.  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.

10.  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
 Big effort in usability! 

14.  Covers the full learning resource curation
lifecycle
◦ Opens opportunities for innovating both in digital
description and preservation practices.
◦ Finding specificities of the use of language
technologies
 Analyses the user interaction needs for
translation of metadata and ontologies in a
practical and real-world setting
◦ Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

15.  Need more information? (Technical
components, consortium, etc)
 Want to get affiliated with
Organic.Lingua?
 Visit:
 http://www.organic-lingua.eu
 Email: info@organic-lingua.eu