- From: Borka Jerman-Blazic <borka@e5.ijs.si>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:53:24 +0100
- To: iab-charsets@bunyip.com
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
Appologies for those that will receive this invitation more than onec.
Regards,
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT and PROGRAM
CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology
Workshop
Providing multilingual support in middleware:
Implementing the Universal Character Set ISO 10646 in the European
Information Society
11 November - 12 November 1996
Bled , Slovenia
Grand Hotel Toplice
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Organized by CEN/TC304 - Character Set Technology
Sponsored by Commission of European Union, DG3
Ministry of Science and Technology, Slovenia
Slovenian Chapter of Internet Society
Soros Foundation - New York and Slovenia Offices
Programme committee
prof. Borka Jerman Blazic - chair, IJS, Slovenia
Wolf Arfvidson, Statskontoret, Sweden
Þorvarður Kári Ólafsson, STRÍ, Iceland
Michael Everson, EGT, Ireland
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PROGRAM
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Sunday, 10 November 1996
Registration, 18:00-21:00
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Monday, 11 November 1996
Opening Session, 9:00-10:00
Chair: Borka Jerman-Blazic
Scope: Official opening.
Peter Volasko, Slovenian State Secretary for International Cooperation in
Science and Technology
Jan Roukens, Commission of the European Communities
Wolf Arfvidsson, Chairman, CEN/TC304
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Coffee, 10:00-10:30
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Plenary Session I, 10:30-12:30
A1. Towards a multilingual information society
Chair: Wolf Arfvidson
Scope: To give an overview of the strategy and activities towards a
multilingual information society.
Jan Roukens, Commission of the European Communities, Language
Engineering, Luxembourg: "Action, strategy, and tasks within the European
Union"
Chris Weider, Internet IAB and Microsoft, U.S.A.: "The Internet approach
to multilinguality: strategy and actions"
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Luncheon, 12:30-13:45
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Parallel Sessions I, 13:45-15:45
B1. Multilingual support for the B2. Middleware for large character
World Wide Web sets: input, display, and processing
Chair: Keld Simonsen Chair: Michael Everson
Scope: To give insight into the Scope: To explain the problems of and
state of the art and problems propose solutions to the lack of
regarding multilingual support middleware for the support of large
for the WWW services. character sets. The focus will be on
input, display and processing.
Bert Bos, WWW Consortium, Paris,
France: "WWW Consortium Alain LaBonté, Gouvernement du Québec,
activities in Canada: "UCS input, processing, and
internationalization" output"
Yuri Demchenko, Kiev, Ukraine: Martin Duerst, Zürich, Switzerland:
"Multilingual support of WWW "Input methods for Unicode"
application for educational and
cultural purposes"
Konstantin Chugaev, Chelabynsk,
Russia: "Multiple character set
enabled WWW server and conversion
API"
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Coffee, 15:45-16:15
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Parallel Sessions II, 16:15-18:15
C1. Manufacturers support for
multilinguality C2. Research and Development
Chair: Alain la Bonté Chair: Jan Roukens
Scope: To provide overview of and
some insight into the current Scope: To provide overview of the
support for multilinguality in current and planned RTD projects in the
equipment by world known field of language engineering in
manufacturers. Telematics programme.
Jürgen Schwertl, Microsoft, Iain Urquhart, Commission of the
Germany: "Multilinguality in European Communities: "Projects in the
Microsoft products" IV. Framework Telematics Program"
Patrick Andries, ALIS
Technologies, Québec, Canada: "A Mike McKenna: "Unicode support for
real Multilingual Suite: the ALIS clients and databases offered by
browser, editor, and machine world-class database vendors"
translation tool"
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Social Event, 21:00-23:00
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Tuesday, 12 November 1996
Parallel Sessions III, 9:00-11:00
D1. Library and Directory
applications: problems and D2. Internationalization in Information
solutions Technology
Chair: Michael Everson Chair: Þorvarður Kári Ólafsson
Scope: To give a detailed overview of
Scope: To explain the problems the current international activities in
and proposed solutions regarding the field of internationalization. The
multilingual support in library focus will be on the provision of
and directory applications. reusable tools and reliable data on
cultural requirements.
Tomasz Wolniewicz, Torun, Poland:
"Multiple character sets and the V.S. Umamaheswaran, IBM, Canada:
Directory service -- Polish "Unicode Consortium: prospects and
solutions" development"
Yuri Holov, Russian State Arnold Winkler, Unisys, U.S.A.:
Library, Russia: "IT Products in "Internationalization WG20"
Libraries"
Keld Simonsen, DKUUG, Denmark: "Freely
available standardized
internationalization data and tools"
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Coffee, 11:00-11:15
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Plenary Session II, 11:15-12:15
A2. Multilingual Informatics Infrastructure and cultural diversity
Chair: Wolf Arfvidson
Scope: To give an overview of the European requirements in the field of
internationalization and how they can be implemented through the
provision of reusable tools and reliable data on cultural requirements.
Þorvarður Kári Ólafsson, STRÍ, Iceland: "Standards for providing
multicultural functionality in IT systems"
Michael Everson, EGT, Ireland: "Letters for Europe: script requirements"
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Closing Session 12:15-13:45
Scope: To provide a summary of this workshop and recommendations on the
way forward.
Professor Borka Jerman-Blazic, chair, Slovenian chapter of the Internet
Society, ISOC-SI: "Cultural diversity in the network services -- the way
forward"
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Luncheon, 13:00-14:00
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Visit to Ljubljana, 14:00-20:00
- Plecnik (an architect)
- the Freising Manuscripts , the oldest preserved written records (a
catechism and liturgy) in the Slovene language, originate from the 9th
century
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CONTEXT
Development of the Universal Character Set makes it possible for the first
time in Europe to serve the needs of small nationalities in computing
environments as well as the larger market communities who themselves must
urgently implement solutions to the problem of multilingual computing within
the European Community and the European Information Society.
This CEN/TC304 workshop will focus on solutions to this urgent language
engineering task and on raising awareness of this among members of the
Information and Communication Technology R&D communities.
We welcome partcipants from all over Europe and other with similar problems.
We welcome users and implementors, public procurers, end users, linguists,
manufacturers, stndardizers and everybody that can help solve the problem in
implementing the right standards.
The aim is to discuss all obstacles and problems in the European way towards
information society with rich cultural diversity. The aim is also to achieve
better relationships and broad contacts for exchange of information between
standards developers, implementors and users. We have identified the user
needs -- now we must give guidance toward realizing those needs.
The main benefit of this workshop will be to raise the awareness among the
participants of work which is ongoing or incipient, so that they can look
for it, recommend it to others and press their locl and international
suppliers for it.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Registration
It is recommended to use the WWW-registration form at
http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html
Those unable to register via the WWW should send Email to WSTC304@e5.ijs.si.
Please indicate if you register also for the visit to Ljubljana on the
second day of the Workshop.
Fee
60 ECU for early registration and payment before 11 October
80 ECU after 11 October
Fee includes:
Attendance to the WS sessions
Workshop materials
Lunches and refreshments
Social events
The following payment methods are accepted:
-Bank transfer to ISBA-IS-RE-513-38-380206 in favour of STRÍ
-VISA or EUROCARD, by sending card information to tobbi@iti.is
-Cash (DEM or SIT), Visa or Eurocard payment on location 10 November
Those requiring a formal invoice should contact tobbi@iti.is
Venue
Grand Hotel Toplice
4260 Bled
Slovenia
Tel.: + 386 64 7910
Fax : + 386 64 741 841
Email: toplicebl@perftech.si
Additional information
Further practical information is available on the WWW:
http://www.e5.ijs.si/i18n/ws-bled.html
All the latest information will also be made available there and at:
http://tobbi.iti.is/TC304/ws-bled
Information can also be obtained from: WSTC304@e5.ijs.si, or Borka
Jerman-Blazic, by fax: +386 61 123-2118, or Þorvarður Kári Ólafsson, by fax:
+354 587-7409.
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