Report from the Organic.Lingua Final Workshop

The Final Workshop of the Organic.Lingua project, titled “Using multilingual technologies in web portals – Challenges & Promises”, took place on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 between 15.30-18.30 (CET) at the premises of  Città dell’Altra Economia (CAE) in Rome, Italy. It was co-organised by Agro-Know Technologies and University of Alcalá (UAH), both project partners of the Organic.Lingua project. The Agro-Know team was represented at the Workshop by Nikos Marianos. Giannis was there on behalf of the UAH team while Andreas Drakos was also there, as the Workshop was collocated with the Herbal.Mednet 3rd project meeting, which Andreas attended. I did not manage to attend and I have to admit that I missed that but the trip would be too time consuming during a really busy period.

Photo taken by David Martin Moncunill

The Workshop was focused in the multilingual outcomes of the project and included the following presentations:

1. Multilingual information services in the area of agricultural data : the use case of AGRIS (Keynote Speech): Fabrizio Celli (FAO)
2. Applying language technologies in agricultural online services: The case of Organic.Edunet: Salvador Sanchez-Alonso  (UAH)
3. Managing multilingual vocabularies and ontologies: Mauro Dragoni (FBK)
4. A multilingual framework for transforming online services to truly multilingual: Giannis Stoitsis (UAH)

The workshop also included a networking session in the form of a round-table discussion, which provided the opportunity to the participants to discuss on potential opportunities arising from Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility.

Photo taken by David Martin Moncunill

The Workshop provided a nice opportunity to expose the outcomes of the Organic.Lingua project to a wider audience and also to explore the opportunities for making a step further in this direction, probably in the form of another proposal/project. The next milestone for the project is of course its end (28/2/2014) and the upcoming 3rd Review Meeting (30/4/2014). I am optimistic that all will go well and that we will manage to get another green card for this project ;-)

You can find more photos from the event here.

Created with flickr slideshow.

Open invitation: Help us make the Organic.Edunet Web portal even better!

Do you speak Organic?

Are you a researcher, a student, a teacher or a practitioner in the agricultural domain? Are you interested in language technologies and translation innovations? Have you visited the re-designed Organic.Edunet Web portal with its new multilingual services? Check it out now and help us improve by providing your feedback!

Organic.Edunet is an international portal that has been serving the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture community since 2009, bridging together a network of learning repositories and providing its users (such as pupils & students, teachers, etc.) with a significant volume of relevant educational resources on Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE).

Under the scope of the Organic.Lingua Project, the portal was enhanced with new multilingual capabilities, offering automatic translations in 17 languages and more! As we are reaching the end of the project, we are proud to announce that the brand-new version of the portal is now LIVE and you are all invited to test it!

The Public Pilot Trial will take place between Saturday, the 1^st of February and Monday, the 10^th of February, 2014. A script on how to use the portal is available at http://wiki.organic-lingua.eu/Public_Open_Trial_Scenario

To help us improve, fill in a short evaluation questionnaire, which can be accessed here.

 Your contribution is highly appreciated, as we are constantly trying to develop the services offered to our users, in order to accommodate the needs and requirements of people involved in learning and teaching Organic Agriculture and relevant topics such as ecology, environment, aquaculture, water resources management, sustainability and other green topics.

Thank you for your participation!

Organic.Lingua Final Workshop

Just about a month before the end of the Organic.Lingua project, the Final Workshop of the project will be held. More specifically, the Workshop will be titled "Using multilingual technologies in web portals - Challenges & Promises" and will take place on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 between 15.30-18.30 (CET) at the premises of  Città dell'Altra Economia (CAE) in Rome, Italy. It will be co-organised by Agro-Know Technologies and University of Alcalá (UAH), both project partners of the Organic.Lingua project.

The aim of this Workshop will be to present the produced multilingual technologies & framework applied to transform the Organic.Edunet to a truly multilingual service, and their potential to be used in other online services. In this direction, the workshop aims to bring together people from different organizations and initiatives that are active in the Agricultural domain, as well as potential adopters of the multilingual framework, to discuss on how they could take advantage of these multilingual technologies within their institutions/organizations.  During the workshop a set of best practices for transforming an online service to a truly multilingual service will be presented and discussed.

The Organic.Edunet Web portal

The draft agenda of the Workshop includes the following topics:

• The language barrier in the Agricultural Domain;
• Applying language technologies in agricultural online services: The case of Organic.Edunet;
• Managing multilingual vocabularies and ontologies;
• A multilingual framework for transforming online services to truly multilingual;
• Round Table: Discussion on best practices and networking session

The workshop will also include a networking session, that will give the participants the chance to discuss on potential opportunities arising from Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility.

You can find updated information on the Workshop in the Organic.Lingua wiki page, and you can register to the Workshop by contacting Mrs. Angeliki Papageorgiou at:

Angeliki Papageorgiou
Agro-Know Technologies
tel. 0030 2106897905
email: angeliki@agroknow.gr

You can also follow the Organic.Lingua project through Twitter & Facebook!

Do you speak Organic?

A survey on language barriers faced by the users of the Organic.Edunet Web portal (and not only) has been launched today by the Agro-Know team of the Organic.Lingua project. This project that aims to identify multilinguality issues and provide software solutions on the Organic.Edunet Web portal.

The survey, along with a short introduction to the whole concept can be found here. All people involved in the field of organic agriculture, agroecology and green fields in general (such as teachers, students, tutors/educators etc.) are more than welcome to participate in this survey and provide their feedback which will allow the Organic.Lingua project to work on the issues identified and hopefully come up with usable solutions!

Organic.Edunet multilingual survey!

Dear Organic.Edunet user,

The Organic.Edunet roadmap includes a significant number of new features and upgrade of existing ones. The main goal is to enchance the overall user-experience, the effectiveness and efficiency of all the tools and services, while new content is being added and more repositories are introduced in the federation of the Organic.Edunet repositories.

In order to help us better recognize your needs, please click on the following link to participate in our survey regarding your multilingual requirements and expected new features.

http://goo.gl/Dq8vO

The survey should not take more than 10 minutes to complete and it's completely anonymous.

The Organic.Edunet Community