Web portal for minority languages in S

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Web portal for minority languages in Sápmi,
Nordic countries, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Norway and Karelia

• Birger Winsa,
• President of SWEBLUL, 050730

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Platform and structures of organisation

• .php program.
• As much as possible should be possible to update
  directly at the web
• One moderator from one organisation responsible
  for the portal
• Every MSC has responsibility and updating access
  to their own page and parts of the portal

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Pictures, languages and design

• Design is important
• Nice pictures (geographic, cultural, social)
• General information of the minority languages in
  English
• General info in the respective minority language
• Dominant part written in the national languages.
• Documents in the language they are written in.

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Portal page

• One logo for the whole region WHICH?
• Minority regional logos, Sápmi flag
• Categorisation following nations.
• News, conferences and cultural events from the
  whole region
• News from Eurolang
• Minority conferences in Europe and globally

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Structure

• First page, logo
• Links to national/regional pages, Sweden,
  Denmark, etc and Sápmi, Norway and Karelen.
• Unified structure on all national/regional pages.
  Variation within the same theme

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One portal for all pages

• First page General info, news, cultural events,
  links to all pages

Link to a page with information of minoritiies in
EU, global link collection, (perhaps the EBLUL
page for this will do?)
Links to digial maps from every region
Marketing page Regional pictures, web
cameras Data base for cultural and minority
tourism publishers, music companies, theatre
associations, voluntary minority associations
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International links

• Links to global minority portals
• Links to funding institutions
• Links to EU and EBLUL databases

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Link to these countries/regions
Latvia
Sápmi
Sweden
Lithuania
Finland
Estonia
Norway
Karelia
Denmark
Poland
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Information on every national page

• MS-committee statutes, minutes, president, board
  members, addresses, telephones, e-mails, pictures
  (English)
• General information of the minority region in
  English, the minority language/s and the national
  language number of speakers, location of the
  region, about the language, social, cultural
  information, settlement history etc. Not more
  than 1-2 pages in total per region.

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Information of minorities from existing socurces

• Copy from existing sources, and correct
  shortcomings, if possible. http//www.mercator-cen
  tral.org/ http//europa.eu.int/comm/education/
• Translate to the national language and some
  minority languages if possible.

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Information

• Legal status of every minority language
• Minority languages in education
• Minority languages in media
• Minority languages in administration
• Minority languages in books, music, theatre,
  civil society
• Minority languages in business
• Minorities in tourism

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General info

• Links to relevant mailing lists
• News, conferences, cultural events
• Blogg, debate, information
• Information and links to funding sources for
  minority projects
• Thematic links group, language, region,
  education, media, etc.
• Links to relevant search engines, and national
  databases

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On every national page

• Links to institutions promoting the minority
  language/s. Categorise education, media,
  legislation, administration, culture, others.
  Address in the language of the institution, and
  in English if possible

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Cultural and ethnic tourism

• Digital maps
• Links to tourist businesses in the region.
• Publishers, theatres, music companies
• Marketing of books, music, theatre,
• Nice pictures,
• All regional web cameras
• Links to companies advertising in minority
  languages

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On every national page

• Data base categorised following themes, but one
  for all minority languages within the
  nation/region
• Data base for culture authors (short biography),
  musicians/singers, theatre, general cultural
  history,
• Research data base Articles in PDF-document.
  Categories Juridical, socio linguistics, media,
  education, civil society, administration,
  government documents, socio-economic issues,
  tourism, general issues.

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Civil societyMinority associations

• Links with logo to all minority associations in
  the community/region/nation
• Information of their activites in
  English/national language

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Education

• Links to digital lexicons, grammar
• Information on education,
• Links to education institutions

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Ideas from these sources

• www.immi.se
• www.samer.se
• www.same.net
• www.sweblul.se
• http//www.brcinfo.com/
• http//www.enrosadira.it/italia/index.html

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