Open Road 2006 Conference: Challenges and Possibilities

Third conference in the Open Road series, Open Road 2006 was a major two day conference presented in partnership with Vicnet, a division of the State Library of Victoria and Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs, department of Victorian Communities.

The conference addressed the challenges and possibilities of providing access to and development of content and web services within a multilingual environment. The conference had a particular focus on the access to and provision of translated information by government departments and agencies, community organisations and non-government organisations.

Monday 6 February 2006

  1. Multilingual Human Rights and Democracy
    Hon. Justice Marcus Einfeld AO QC
    [Paper]

  2. Round table discussion: challenges and possibilities
    [Transcript]

  3. Multilingual senior surfers on the Internet
    Linda Wheeler and Stephen Sayers
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  4. Multilingual community web publishing
    Richard Hayward
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  5. Case study - facilitating access to translated resources
    Jeff Langdon
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  6. The Language factory: how difficulties translating information on the web led to a community enterprise
    Natalie Collins
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  7. Round table discussion: provision for translated government information
    [Transcript]

Tuesday 7 February 2006

  1. Introduction to internationalisation
    Richard Ishida,
    [Presentation]

  2. A multilingual input solution for libraries
    Marc Durdin
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  3. What's up with globilisation using ASP and ASP.Net
    David Glover
    [Presentation]

  4. Multilingual cataloguing: culture, practice and systems
    Cathie Jilovsky, Lamis Sukkar and Eva Varga
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  5. A web search service for minority language communities
    Baden Hughes
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  6. MyLanguage
    Andrew Cunningham and Troy Rasiah
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  7. Remember, the world is watching
    Alexi Paspalas
    [Presentation]   [Paper]

  8. Windows Vista, an ever expanding view of internationalisation
    David Glover
    [Presentation]

  9. Closing remarks
    Professor Joseph Lo Bianco
    [Paper]

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