- From: Borka Jerman-Blazic <borka@e5.ijs.si>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:53:24 +0100
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Image][Image][Image][Image] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, 10 November 1996 Registration, 18:00-21:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------- Coffee, 10:00-10:30 --------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- Luncheon, 12:30-13:45 --------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- Coffee, 15:45-16:15 --------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- Social Event, 21:00-23:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- Coffee, 11:00-11:15 --------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- 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" --------------------------------------------- Luncheon, 13:00-14:00 --------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML ME/ÞKÓ 1996-09-26 --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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