Title
Digital libraries and minority languages
Abstract
Digital libraries have a pivotal role to play in the preservation and maintenance of international cultures in general and minority languages in particular. This paper outlines a software tool for building digital libraries that is well adapted for creating and distributing local information collections in minority languages, and describes some contexts in which it is used. The system can make multilingual documents available in structured collections and allows them to be accessed via multilingual interfaces. It is issued under a free open-source licence, which encourages participatory design of the software, and an end-user interface allows community-based localization of the various language interfaces */of which there are many.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1080/13614560500351071
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
localization,translation,digital libraries,participatory design,user interface,computer science,digital library
Software tool,Traditional knowledge,World Wide Web,Participatory design,Computer science,Software,Digital library,User interface,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
2
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David M. Nichols169856.40
Ian H. Witten2153461507.14
Te Taka Keegan3184.30
David Bainbridge4843114.00
Michael Dewsnip5262.26