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<h2><small>W3C Workshop - Making the Multilingual Web Work<br>
<span style="font-size:75%;">12 – 13 March 2013, Rome</span></small></h2>
<p><a href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/rome">http://www.multilingualweb.eu/rome</a>
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<p>Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication in
all walks of life. Although English once dominated the Web,
other languages are increasing their presence, with long-term
economic and social impacts. If the Web is to deliver its
promised benefits and live up to the ideal of a single,
world-wide network, it is vitally important to ensure the <em>multilingual</em>
success of the World Wide Web.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/">MultilingualWeb
community</a> develops and promotes best practices and
standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing, and
deploying the Web across boundaries of language. It aims to
raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards
for dealing with language on the Internet and on identifying and
resolving gaps that keep the Internet from living up to its
global potential.</p>
<p>The core vehicle for these actions is a series of <a
href="http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents">events</a>
that started in 2010 (run by the initial MultilingualWeb Project
and its successor, the MultilingualWeb-LT project). Following
five highly successful events in Madrid, Pisa, Limerick,
Luxembourg, and Dublin, the sixth workshop will be held in Rome
and hosted by the <strong> <a
href="http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm">Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO)</a></strong>.</p>
<b>Special interactive sessions planned for the W3C
MultilingualWeb workshop in Rome, March 2013</b></div>
<div>Led by experts in the field, two special break-out sessions on
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Linked Open Data (LOD)
are planned for the upcoming MultilingualWeb workshop, to be held
at the headquarters of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization
in the heart of Rome,on 12-13 March. We will also continue the
Open Space discussions that have been so popular in the past.</div>
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<div>In addition, lunch-time exhibition sessions will showcase the
recent work and progress made on implementing the ITS 2.0
specification, a major effort in the W3C to improve support for
language- and translation-related processes.</div>
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<div>Register soon to ensure you get a place, especially if you are
interested in also speaking. See the Call for Participation (<a
href="http://multilingualweb.eu/rome">http://multilingualweb.eu/rome</a>)
for more information.</div>
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<div>The W3C's MultilingualWeb workshops bring together
approximately 150 implementers, leading developers, localizers,
researchers and users of the Web to discuss best practices and
standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and
deploying the Web multilingually. One and a half days of
presentations will be followed by break-out sessions that will
allow attendees to explore additional topics in an in-depth,
discussion-oriented fashion.</div>
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<div>Participation is free.</div>
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<div>If you have any questions, contact the program committee chair,
Dr. Arle Lommel (<a href="mailto:arle.lommel@dfki.de">arle.lommel@dfki.de</a>).</div>
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