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Issues of content and structure for a multilingual web site

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents

Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA

Session: P5 table of contents

Pages: 103 - 110

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-295-6

Authors

Shihong Huang	University of California, Riverside, CA
Scott Tilley	University of California, Riverside, CA

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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Most content on the Web today is in English, but the majority of the Earth's peoples speak languages other than English. To reach a wider audience, future Web sites will have to be multilingual, changing a Web site from one that is American-centric and single-language to one that is globally-oriented and multilingual. While the challenges in creating and maintaining a high-quality Web site in a single language are considerable, working with multiple languages simultaneously creates special challenges, both culturally and technically. This paper outlines issues related to two important aspects of the problem: content and structure. Several representative Web sites are examined to illustrate some of these considerations.

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