1. Multilingual websites and thesauri
MINERVAPLUS WP3
Multilingual websites and thesauri

2. Objectives Mapping the multilingual access to the cultural content
Identifying multilingual thesauri
Sharing the best practices

3. Methodology Compiling a questionnaire
Identifying contact persons from each country
Creating a website for the online data collection, and for the results
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4. Target audience Cultural institutions Libraries Museums Archives
Others
Cultural sites

5. Participation in the first run
236 ONLINE ANSWERS FROM 21 STATES

6. Participation in the first run II.
4 offline summaries from:
The Netherlands
Poland
Russia
Slovakia

7. Meeting in Budapest 12/11/2004 9 countries were represented
Multilingual issues were presented by the participants
New restrictions were prepared
A second run of the survey started
Country reports were planned
A mailing list was created

8. The second run of the survey
It is still going on
Additional information came from:
- Italy
- Germany
- Greece

9. 529 registered cultural sites

10. Multilingual websites
Monolingual
Bilingual
Multilingual websites:  
3 languages  
4 languages  
5 languages  
6 languages  
7 languages  
9 languages  
34 languages

11. Searching tools

12. Controlled vocabularies
54 registered thesauri from
Austria
France
Hungary
Italy
Russia
The Netherlands
The United Kingdom 10
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13. Recent actions were Data processing Next steps:
Supervising the answers
Analyzing the results
Implementing the new restrictions
Next steps:
- Identifying the best practices
- Country reports
- Dissemination of findings

14. Thanks for your attention!
Gabriella Szalóki