History: BabelWiki08 meeting notes

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''This page is the starting point for taking notes and organizing them during the ((BabelWiki))'08 workshop.'' {maketoc} !!#Themes and notes from breakout sessions During the CardStorming exercise, 7 clusters of issues were idenfied by participants: * ((BabelWiki08 Collaboratively building free and open dictionaries)) * ((BabelWiki08 Social dynamics of cross-lingual collaboration)) * ((BabelWiki08 Meeting and resolving fears of translators)) * ((BabelWiki08 Collaboration between professionals and amateurs)) * ((BabelWiki08 Semantics and technology)) * ((BabelWiki08 Preserving linguistic diversity)) * ((BabelWiki08 Opportunities for translators)) * ((BabelWiki08 Software issues in cross-lingual collaboration)) Some of them were discussed in breakout sessions (click on above links to see notes of those sessions), but some of them were left out, in order to allow more time for demos (see the next section below) !!# Software demos Below is a list of software that was demoed at the workshop. At the end, the fourth section of the workshop was devoted to demos: # Edit/Leo (Alex) + http://dict.leo.org + # Words and Collocations in European Languages (Daniel) + http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/abfrage/ + # JIAMCATT Wiki (Olaf) + http://jiamcatt.ourwiki.net + # Demo of typical terminology DB ** Inter Active Terminology for Europe ++ http://iate.europa.eu ** United Nations Terminology ++ http://unterm.un.org + # Beytrans: Wiki based CAT tool for volunteer translators (Youcef) + (shown on a flash tutorial) + http://javalig3.imag.fr/beytrans/ + # WeBiText, a large translation memory based on multilingual content mined from the web. ((Alain Désilets)) + http://www.webitext.ca/ + # All languages in one wiki: Emacs wiki. (Alex Schröder). + http://www.oddmuse.org + http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/2008-09-08_Free_Dictionaries + # Multilingual Translation Memory. "Tagleen" beta. (Milorad) + (url for the demo? - shown with http://localhost:8088/glossary/Wiki.jsp + # The Cross Lingual Wiki Engine (CLWE) + ''(The demo will be held tomorrow, and also partially shown at the previous JIAMCATT demo)'' !!# Chat {MODULE(module=>minichat,decorations=>y,rows=30,channels="#default,#BabelWiki08")}{MODULE} There is a chat to allow real-time communication with distant users. Besides, please [tiki-register.php|register] and [tiki-login_scr.php|login] in this site and __join the Babelwiki08 group__ (see button below). {GROUP(groups=>Registered)}{SUBSCRIBEGROUP(group=BabelWiki08, subscribe=Join Babelwiki08 group, unsubscribe=In case you want to leave the Babelwiki08 group click below, subscribe_action=Join Babelwiki08 group, unsubscribe_action=Leave Babelwiki08 group) /}{GROUP} !!# Related pages {TITLESEARCH(search=>BabelWiki)}{TITLESEARCH}