Priorities in the Study of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Ph.D. Sanja Seljan, associate prof. Ph.D. Hrvoje Stančić, assistant prof.

Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences –One of 23 Departments, 6,000 students –Total of 75 study groups at the Faculty –Specific affiliation to humanities and social sciences Levels of study –Undergraduate –Graduate –Postgraduate

Structure

Fields of research archival and documentation science encyclopaedistics information systems and informatology language processing lexicography library science museum science

Research projects Croatian dictionary heritage and dictionary knowledge presentation Design and Management of Public Knowledge in Information Space Knowledge organization, management and sharing in electronic learning Croatian Computer-Assisted Translation and e-Language Learning Computational Syntax of Croatian Traditional and Electronic Publishing in Zagreb Knowledge-base Optimization Causal Bayes Networks in Natural Language Croatian Identity in the Marketing of Place and in Development Strategy Research of Heritage Users Hybrid Library and Access to Scientific Information

Activities Participation in Tempus Mobility programs E-learning system Omega (Moodle) Cooperation with European universities Workshops Life-Long Learning activities International conference INFuture –INFuture2007: Digital Information and Heritage –INFuture2009: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing

INFuture2009: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing Zagreb, Croatia, 4-6 November 2009 Topics (include but not limited to): –Virtual Environment in Education –Using Open-Source Solutions in Cultural Heritage –Knowledge Management –Using Information Resources in Research, Education and Presentation –Digitization and Preservation –Language Technologies –e-Services and e-Government –Doctoral Colloquium

Multilingual needs  Translation needs:  in Croatia  in EU  …  Tools and resources for Croatian  Machine Translation (MT)  Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT):  translation memories  terminology resources  dictionaries  e-Language Learning (eLL)

Objectives Adopting of EU standards –Use of existing electronic resources Creating linguistic tools and resources Integration into language technology programs –Machine translation –Computer Assisted Translation –e-Language learning Joint research activities Cooperation with EU universities Within priorities

Selected research interests Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) for Croatian –integration of Croatian modules into existing models respecting EU standards –related languages: Polish, Slovak, Slovenian –harmonisation at the level of university courses –multilingual communication Digitization and Records Managgement – repository development according to the EU standards –development of modern archival science –digital heritage preservation E-learning & Knowledge Organisation –repository of reusable learning objects –life-long learning –metadata development

Cooperation contacts Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia Ph.D. Sanja Seljan, associate prof. Ph.D. Hrvoje Stančić, assistant prof.