Creating language content online
Here you will find examples of ways from around the world, in which community language based reources are being delivered on the web
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Chinese Virtual Community Centre
SBS
The Virtual Community Centre (sbs.com.au/chinese) is an innovative multiplatform hub, featuring both SBS and user generated videos, audio and text. It is a place to share stories and opinions on life in Australia, from a Chinese Australian perspective.
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Connect, create and collaborate: Linking CALD communities through online radio
National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council
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Finfo
Finfo gives information to new settlers about Danish society in 10 languages in areas such as health, education, work.
- First Voices
A suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Canadian Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture.
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In My Language InMyLanguage.org provides online multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario, Canada.
- italklibrary
An open-source, online multilingual spoken library. The resource contains a selection of e-books that have been created in 14 Aboriginal and 5 International languages.
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Kete : telling our stories together ; community digital repository
Open source software that enables communites to use the internet to create areas for collaboration by writing topics and uploading images, audio, video anddocuments.
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Multilingual Web Project
WC3
The MultilingualWeb project is exploring standards and best practices that support the creation, localization and use of multilingual web-based information. Through a series of workshops open to the public and various communication channels, they will spread information about what standards and best practices currently exist, and what gaps need to be filled.
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Multilingual web site design
Libraries and Archives Canada
Since multilingual Web sites must deal with many languages it is important that the Web site be designed to easily accommodate them. There are several approaches to developing multicultural Web sites.
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New communities emerging content
Lo Bianco, N, Cunningham, A and McCombe, C
Research on digital inclusion and language maintenance for Harari, Dinka and Karen communities in Melbourne.
- WeSay WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language.