Multilingual websites in Hungary

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Multilingual websites in Hungary

• Egy eloadás könnyen vitára ösztönözheti a
  hallgatóságot. A PowerPoint bemutatók
  használatával azonban megfelelo mederbe terelheti
  a hozzászólásokat.
• Vetítés közben nyomja le a jobb oldali egérgombot
• Válassza a Jegyzokönyvvezetot
• Válassza a Muveletek lapot
• Gépelje be a hozzászólásokat az elhangzás
  sorrendjében
• Az OK gombbal a panel kikapcsolható
• A vetítés végén önmuködoen létrejön egy Muveletek
  címu kocka , ami a beírt hozzászólásokat
  tartalmazza.

• Gabriella Szalóki

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Population in Hungary

• 10 millions
• inhabitants
• 97 Hungarians
• 3 minorities
• 13 different nationalities
• 5 million Hungarians
• in different countries

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Minorities in Hungary

• Live scattered in all over the country in small
  sporadic communities in majority lingual
  environment
• Due to the assimilation the usage of the minority
  languages decrease in the social communication
  (except self-governments, national institutions,
  TV programmes, or informal communication)

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Languages spoken in the EU

• As mother tongue or as foreign language

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The survey 2004

• May - compile a questionnaire
• - test in 4 institutions
• June - July
• - set up a Hungarian MINERVA website
• with the online questionnaire
• - send out the request letters
• August-September
• - close the data collection
• - start the analysis

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Participation

• Promotion
• Mailing lists (libraries, and museums)
• Website (libraries, and museums)
• Direct mail (archives, cultural sites)
• Challenges
• The accession was new (May, 2004)
• Dealing multifunctional institutions
• Low participation of museums

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Participation 2
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40 registered Websites 24 are available in
English
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Findings

• Still 1/3 of the websites are monolingual
• local and regional institutions
• cultural institutions, archives
• But more and more bilingual and multilingual
  websites - 24 are
  available in English
• - 3rd language is usually German
• - 4th language is French, or minority
  languages (Slovakian)
• Libraries are far ahead of other institutions in
  multilingualilism

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Information retrieval
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Controlled vocabularies

• Multilingual
• Hungarian Educational Thesaurus (Hun,Eng,Ger,Fr)
• Econinfo (Hun,Eng,Ger)
• Thesaurus of library and information science
  (Hun, Eng)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings in Hungarian
  (Hun, Eng)
• Monolingual
• OSZK Thesaurus
• WebKat.hu thesaurus

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Conclusions - start to think multilingual

• Encourage cultural institutions to compile
  multilingual websites
• Use multilingual thesaurus with general coverage,
  or translate the most advanced Hungarian one

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Best practices

• Fine arts in Hungary
  http//www.hung-art.hu
• Hungarian National Archive http//ender.mtak.hu

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Thank you!
Gabriella Szalóki