- From: william wong <wongkw@vcn.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 04:19:22 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-international@w3.org
- Cc: wongkw@vcn.bc.ca
> > Web Internationalization & Multilinguism Symposium > Sevilla (Spain), 20-22 November 1996 > > [1]Background [2]Registration [3]Programma [4]Spain [5]CEC > [6]background [7]registration [8]programme [9]travel [10]sponsors > > _________________________________________________________________ > >Introduction > > The objective of the Symposium is the advancement of the > Internationalization & Multilinguism of the Web; it will cover both > the current state and needed future developments. In particular, the > symposium is intended to promote agreement on relevant technical > standards. The intent is to gather interested parties from all > sectors, including: > * Users, particularly site developers with large multi-lingual > needs. > * Implementors of Web products (e.g., browsers, servers, authoring > tools, ...). > * Vendors of linguistic products (e.g., translator workbenches). > * Standards developers (e.g, W3C). > * Social and political stake-holders (e.g., European Commission) > > The Symposium is organized into five broad domains. Each domain has > one or more rapporteurs, who will organize a section of the symposium > in which the current status, options, and issues are presented and > discussed. Each domain has a separate web page, which will be updated > to point to position statements and background papers. Those with a > strong interest who are new to the issues of Internationalization and > Multilinguism of the web are encouraged to attend. > > There will be one Main Track and several Secondary Tracks in parallel. > All the subject will be treated, to different extend, on the Main > Track. The Secondary Tracks are for specialized events; there is no > fixed model for the Secondary Tracks: workshops, brainstorming > sessions, BOF meetings, vendors demonstrations/tutorials, ... > >Main Track program > > Wednesday 20 November > > + 9.00 Opening Address of the Symposium. M.T. Carrasco Benitez. > + 9.10 Keynote Speaker. Representative of the Government of > Andalucia > + 9.35-13.00 [11]1. Social, political and cultural aspects > Domain rapporteur: [12]Patrice Husson > This domain covers goals and issues around web > internationalization, including social, economic, political, > cultural, legal, censorship and linguistic issues, including > the global functional view required for the > internationalization and multilinguism of the Web. > o 10.50-11.10 coffee > o 13.00 lunch > + 14.30-18.00 [13]2. Basic infrastructure > Domain rapporteur: [14]L. Masinter > This domain covers the international and multi-lingual issues > of protocols and protocol elements underlying the Web. Topics > include language tags, character sets and encodings, MIME > registration, URLs, HTTP, Internet directory services. > o 16.20-16.40 coffee > > Thursday 21 November > > + 9.00-13.00 3. Authoring > Domain rapporteurs: [15]M. Duerst, [16]G. Nicol, [17]F. > Yergeau > This domain covers the technology important for authors, > including the internationalization issues of HTML, BIDI, > undisplayable characters, fonts, multi-lingual typography, > style sheets, and localization. > o 10.50-11.10 coffee 13.00 lunch > + 14.30-18.00 [18]4. Site development > Domain rapporteur: [19]M.T. Carrasco Benitez > This domain covers the technology necessary for developing > and maintaining multi-lingual web sites, including > translation and translation tools, parallel hypertext, > multi-lingual hypertext, multi-lingual search and natural > language processing. Also the processing of EDI. > o 16.20-16.40 coffee > o 19.30 Social evening > > Friday 22 November > > + 9.00-12.45 [20]5. Deployment > Domain rapporteur: [21]Bert Bos > This domain covers the current state of web software, servers > and sites, and the issues of deployment: for example, how to > encourage authors to use features and servers to support > those features and browsers to interpret those features, > since the willingness of each of them depends on how > widespread the technology is in the other communities. > o 10.50 coffee > + 12.45 Closing address. > o 13.00 lunch > > Only the internationalization and multilinguism aspect of the above > subject will be considered. > > Comments on the program are encouraged; particularly missing aspects. > Participants should submit a short statement. Comments and statement > should be send to the [22]internationalization mailing list. For > [23]Details on this list. > >Registration > > The [24]registration is administered by Sadiel. > > The fees are: > * $450 : Until 31 October 1996 > * $500 : After 31 October 1996 > > This is for the Symposium, printed material, lunches and coffees. > >Traveling & accommodation > > The Symposium will be in Sevilla, Spain. > > Participants are to make their own travel and accommodations > arrangements. Some information is in the Symposium [25]travel and > accommodation server. > >Language > > The language of the Symposium is English. There will be simultaneous > translation English/Spanish and Spanish/English for the Main Track. > >Organization > > The Symposium is co-organized by [26]Sadiel and the [27]World Wide Web > Consortium. It has the support of the [28]European Commission, as part > of the European contribution to the G7 Project "[29]A Global > Marketplace for SMEs". The chairman of the Symposium is [30]M.T. > Carrasco Benitez. > >[31]Project Sevilla > > The objective of this project is translating, to as many languages as > possible, the Web pages of the event. It is not properly part of the > Symposium. > > > [32]W3C [33]M.T. Carrasco Benitez > [34]Webmaster > Last updated 14 October 1996.
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