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A call for the Multilingual Web

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The three objectives under Theme 5: Multilingual Web will be addressed in this Call:

5.1: Machine translation for the multilingual Web
5.2: Multilingual Web content management: standards and best practices
5.3: Multilingual Web content management: methods, tools and processes

See more details at
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/language-technologies/cip-psp_en.html

See also

Language Technology Days, 14-15 January 2009, Conference Centre, Jean Monnet Building at

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/language-technologies/info-days_en.html

See also the other posts on Multilingualism at
http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/7_multilingualism/

Assessment of the Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) in the Legal Information Sectors ...

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Assessment of the Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) in the Legal Information Sectors and Geographical information and Meteorological Information, commissioned by the European Commission has been published and is now available through the following link

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/micus_report_december2008.pdf

2009-01, source : Online Consultants International GmbH, http://www.oci-gmbh.com  

See also at http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2008/12/european-legal-eaccess-conference-10-11-and-12-decembre-2008-in-paris.html#more

European Legal e-Access Conference 10, 11 and 12 Decembre 2008 in Paris or the French version of this post at Version française

Australia - 2008 eGovernment Survey Results Released

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Source : http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/index.php?env=-innews/detail:m466-1-1-8-s-0:n-1682-1-0--

Interacting with Government , Australians' use and satisfaction with e-government services—2008

The Australian federal government has released Australians' use and satisfaction with e-government services - 2008.

Major findings

·       Four in five people use the internet and older Australians are increasingly doing so.

·       Access to broadband continues to grow.

·       Use of newer communication technologies is strong.

·       Use of e-government (internet and telephone) channels for government contact has continued to grow. Growth is being driven by increased use of the internet rather than the telephone. The internet is now the most common way people last made contact with government.

·       Satisfaction with using the internet to contact government and with service delivery remains high.

·       Convenience continues to be a key factor in the decision to use an e‑government channel.

·       While contact with government in person is declining the proportion of people who say they do so because they have no alternative is increasing.

·       The potential for growth in the use of the internet to contact government remains strong. Three in five people could be encouraged to use the internet more often to contact government.

Conclusions

• The internet is now an integral way of delivering government services.
• Governments need to recognise that channel choice is driven by consumer convenience.
• E-government will continue to evolve and grow.
• Community expectations continue to grow as internet use increases.

 

A Guide to Recommender Systems (such as Amazon, Google)

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Author: Richard MacManus / 26-01-2009. Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/recommender_systems.php

Why not to use such features in EU bookshop ?

We're running a special series on recommendation technologies and in this post we look at the different approaches - including a look at how Amazon and Google use recommendations. The Wikipedia entry defines "recommender systems" as "a specific type of information filtering (IF) technique that attempts to present information items (movies, music, books, news, images, web pages, etc.) that are likely of interest to the user." That entry goes on to note that recommendations are generally based on an "information item (the content-based approach) or the user's social environment (the collaborative filtering approach)." We think there's also a personalization approach, which Google in particular is focused on. We explore some of these concepts below.

A study of the Joint Research Center about Social Computing

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Joint Research Center, IPTS reports at http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Social Computing: Study on the Use and Impact of Online Social Networking

·         Authors: Romina Cachia

·         EUR Number: 23565 EN

·         Publication date: 11/2008

·         Source : http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1884

 

Abstract

While social networking is a phenomenon which has existed since the beginning of societies, online Social Networking Sites (SNS) are a recent trend. In less than five years, sites like Facebook and MySpace, have shifted from a niche online activity to a phenomenon in which tens of millions of internet users are engaged. Discussion on the emergence of a new social phenomenon has permeated both industry and academia. However, there has been little research on the socio-economic impact of these sites in the European context.
This study presents results of a case study on SNS, as part of an exploratory research project. It argues that though SNS can appear to be similar, many of them are, in fact, quite different in terms of purpose and use. In general, these sites have led to new ways of managing and maintaining social networks, whereby personal profiles and social networks are being visualised and disclosed to others and the boundaries between the virtual and the real are disappearing. As a result, both opportunities and concerns arise. Policymakers should be aware of these and researchers should further investigate their implications.

"My Week as a Member of the European Parliament": BBC Feature

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The BBC is running an interesting and entertaining feature. A journalist is chronicling his week at the European Parliament, "embedded" with elected Members.

The first instalment is available here.

Monday, or getting to Strasbourg, is here. And here's Tuesday.

It is quite fun complement to the rather dry descriptions of the European Parliament's powers and influence in the books.

Source: EU Law Blog

January 13, 2009 in Institutional | Permalink

My week as an MEP - My aims

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7825929.stm

 

 

A good idea.

Unfortunately it ‘s not the case of the political groups of the EP. Nothing about the elections of June 2009.

See

http://www.epp-ed.eu/home/fr/default.asp?lg1=fr

http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/index.do?lg=fr

http://www.alde.eu/index.php?id=aldeeuropeanparliament&L=1

http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/default/rubrik/6/6270.greensefa_org@fr.htm

http://www.uengroup.org/home.html?page=living_in_europe.html

After the inauguration of Barack Obama, some lessons about his campaign

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The french think tank “Terra Nova” in late December led a study mission to the United States on the American presidential campaign. 
Produced from 80 exclusive interviews with key players in the campaign in Washington, New York and Chicago last November and December, the study deciphers the innovations of the presidential campaign. It draws lessons and recommendations for French political life, to its modernization and revitalization of our democracy. The mission report will be presented on January 19

Source : Terra Nova (http://www.tnova.fr )

Lire ici le rapport de la mission de Terra Nova sur la campagne américaine (version de travail)
Lire ici la synthèse du rapport (summary)

Lire ici la présentation du rapport (presentation)

Lire ici le récapitulatif des interventions média des membres de la mission

And from Demos UK a podcast

at http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/demospodcasts/blog/podcasttheuselections

 

Social networking in reverse: an involuntary Facebook of powerful Americans

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Source: 14.01. 2009 posted by dan visel at http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2009/01/social_networking_in_reverse.html under “Creative Commons” licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ )

A quick note to point out LittleSis, an "involuntary Facebook of powerful Americans," a project of the Public Accountability Initiative funded by the Sunlight Foundation. It's something like a networked telephone book of the rich and powerful: LittleSis aggregates publicly available information about America's officials, both public and private. If you go to, for example, John McCain's page, you can see information about the positions he's served in, political fundraising committees that have raised money for him, and individuals who have given him money. Clicking on the names of any of those organizations will go to the LittleSis page about them, so one can see, for example, with whom McCain sits on the Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee. All of this information has been automatically gathered, but links to sources are given on all pages - the McCain information, for example, comes from GovTrack.us, watchdog.net, Project Vote Smart, the Congressional Biographical Directory, and FEC Disclosure Reports. Nor is it limited to politicians: one can learn that Steve Jobs was a Friend of Rahm Emanuel in 2004.

LittleSis is reminiscent of They Rule, a website from a couple of years ago that mapped out relationships between the members of corporate boards – maybe They Rule is Friendster to LittleSis's Facebook, having taken as a lesson what's happened on the web in the past few years with the rise of social networking. LittleSis is much more open-ended: one can spend a lot of time browsing LittleSis. There's also a wiki component: as the information is automatically gathered, not all of it makes sense yet – Bob Packwood, for example, turns up as both "Bob Packwood" (lobbyist) and "Robert William Packwood" (former Senator). More data sources are still being added; it's important that the sources of the data can be accounted for. It's an interesting project, and worth tracking.

One of the developers of LittleSis is Institute alum Eddie Tejeda; though he's moved to San Francisco, he's currently working with us to develop and new and improved version of CommentPress, which should be coming soon.

Risk Management for Social Media …: W3C eGOV Interest Group’s use cases

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Interesting points from World Wide Web Consortium, eGovernment interest group

 

Use Case: Risk Management for Social Media

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Use_Case_12_-_Risk_Management_for_Social_Media

 

Use Case: Persistent URIs

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Use_Case_10_-_Persistent_URIs

 

Use Case: Identification and Authentication

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Use_Case_11_-_Identification_Authentication

RSS feed for EU Bookshop?

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RSS feeds for EU Bookshop would be an interesting feature for people to notify publications for a theme or for an author. Theorically, it’s offered to the users. But in fact not. See the screen copy below.

See also the post written by Lisa Rogers. October 2008

RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers

Source: http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/3356 and the French source:

http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2009/01/08/rss-pour-les-editeurs.html