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W3C Workshop Report:
The Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements
11 - 13 June 2012, Dublin
Today, the World Wide Web is fundamental to communication in all walks of life. As the share of English web pages decreases and that of other languages increases, it is vitally important to ensure the multilingual success of the World Wide Web.
The MultilingualWeb initiative was established to look at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the Web multilingually. It aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards and identify gaps. The core vehicle for this is a series of events which started in 2010. Currently these workshops are supported by the MultilingualWeb-LT (MLW-LT) project. MLW-LT aims at defining ITS 2.0, which provides metadata for multilingual content creation, localization, and language technologies.
On 11–13 June 2012, the W3C ran the fifth workshop in the MultilingualWeb series in Dublin, "The Multilingual Web - Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements." It was hosted by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Professor Vincent Wade, Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at TCD, gave a brief welcome address.
The purpose of this workshop was two-fold: first, to discuss the intersection between Linked Open Data and Multilingual Technologies (11 June), and second, to discuss requirements of the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group (12–13 June). This workshop was different than the previous workshops because it focused on two specific topics and targeted a smaller audience (to allow for more discussion). Future MultilingualWeb Workshops will return to the broader scope of previous workshops and aim to be a meeting place for content creators, localizers, tools developers, language technology experts, and others to discuss the challenges of the multilingual Web.
The Dublin event ran for three days. The final attendance count was 78, almost exactly the number the organizers had felt was ideal for having deeper discussions about the chosen topics. The audience and speakers encompassed key representatives from the EU, Europeana, the linked open data community, localizers working on linked open data, ISO TC 37, localization companies and research institutions working on terminology, the W3C, and also flagship EU projects in the realm of language technologies like META-NET. This was an ideal group of stakeholders working on the intersection between linked open data and the Multilingual Web.
As with previous workshops, the presenters were video-recorded with the assistance of VideoLectures, who have made the video available on the Web. We again made live IRC scribing available to help people follow the workshop remotely, and assist participants in the workshop itself. As before, people Tweeted about the conference and the speakers during the event, and you can see these linked from the program page. (Note that video is not available for working sessions, which were highly interactive. Those interested in the content of these sessions should consult the IRC transcript for more details.)
After a short summary of key highlights and recommendations, this document provides a short summary of each talk accompanied by a selection of key messages in bulleted list form. Links are also provided to the IRC transcript (taken by scribes during the meeting), video recordings of the talk (where available), and the talk slides. Almost all talks lasted 15 minutes. Finally, there are summaries of the breakout session findings, most of which are provided by the participants themselves. It is strongly recommended to watch the videos, where available, as they provide much more detail than do these summaries.
Contents: Summary • Day 1: Linked Open Data • Days 2 & 3: MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements
What follows is an analysis and synthesis of ideas brought out during the workshop. It is very high level, and readers should watch the individual speakers' talks or read the IRC logs to get a better understanding of the points made.
Linked Open Data
The workshop opened with short welcome addresses from Vincent Wade, Richard Ishida, Dave Lewis and Kimmo Rossi. Kimmo Rossi emphasized that in the planning of the upcoming Horizon 2020 and other European research programs under consideration, language technology will be seen in the context of the data challenge, that is: linked open data, big data, the data cloud, etc. This workshop is a good opportunity to gather ideas about the relation between language technology and data, including topics for upcoming EC funding opportunities.
The setting the stage session started with our keynote speaker, David Orban. He looked into the future of computing devices and the "Web of Things". This is both a technical revolution and a societal challenge. We need to address these both on a personal and a political, decision-making level. The keynote was followed by two presentations: Peter Schmitz presented developments within the European Publications Office related to multilingual linked open data, and Juliane Stiller and Marlies Olensky described the European digital library Europeana, which features core multilinguality in its user interface and data, and which is currently being converted to used linked open data. Both presentations were similar with respect to their perspective: currently, huge, multilingual data sets are being made available as linked open data. The presentations were different with regards to application scenarios of the data, including different user groups and consuming tools. For both data sets, the interlinkage with the current linked open data cloud is an important task.
The linking resources session concentrated on this aspect of interlinking information. The speakers provided three different perspectives on the topic:
- Sebastian Hellmann introduced requirements and outcomes needed for making linguistic resources available on the Web and linking them with other parts of linked open data. Dedicated standardization efforts like the creation of the NLP Interchange Format (NIF) are needed to make this interlinkage happen. The benefit can be the easier re-use of data and integration of tools for natural language processing on the Web.
- Dominic Jones provided a view on linked data from the perspective of localization. Here, modeling of processes like translation by humans and / or machines, pre- or postediting, quality control etc. currently suffers from a diversity of tools and data formats. Linked data and the related standardized APIs can help to solve this problem; but, different to areas like e.g. linguistic research, the openness of the data can be a barrier for adoption, since localization is an industry in which high quality data rarely will be made available for free.
- As the last speaker in the "linking resources" session, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo provided several best practices about how to achieve multilinguality. Unfortunately, an analysis of the current state of the data shows that creators of linked open data rarely follow such recommendations, e.g., natural language descriptions (so-called "labels") rarely exist for languages other than English. A first step towards solving this problem might be to document the guidelines. As a concrete outcome of this discussion, the W3C Internationalization Activity has put the creation of such a best practice document on its agenda.
The main topic of the linked open data and the lexicon session was how to make use of existing language resources—primarily in the realm of lexicons and terminology within linked open data, and vice versa. This section featured five presentations:
- Alan Melby introduced the efforts around RDF-TBX, an approach to represent terminological data based on the widely used TermBase eXchange (TBX) format as linked open data, that is: RDF. The efforts around RDF-TBX have the potential to be a bridge building mechanism, both between technologies and communities.
- Ioannis Iakovidis demonstrated the general tendency of terminology systems to "go on the Web": both the terminology data itself and access to it in various workflows (machine translation, terminology management, quality control) is moving away from proprietary technologies and formats.
- Tatiana Gornostay continued this topic with a focus on what can be done with cloud-based platforms for handling language resources, including terminology, and integrating them with other technologies. A yet to be solved problem is the mismatch between the modeling capabilities that linked open data provides, and the modeling needed for lexical resources.
- The presentation from John McCrae introduced Lemon (Lexicon Model for Ontologies), which can help to resolve the mismatch identified by Gornostay.
- Phil Archer closed the "linked open data and the lexicon" session by bringing in an aspect of creating and linking information into the discussion that had not been mentioned so far: like with any other kind of data, linked open data, esp. from the area of eGovernment, is subject to national and cultural needs and differences. Even the creation of URIs (Universal Resource Identifiers), that is the basic building blocks of linked open data, needs to take these political challenges into account. Otherwise even technically well thought solutions will not be adopted widely.
In the last session of the first day, Georg Rehm introduced the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) being developed within the META-NET project. The SRA is one main piece of input for research in the Horizon 2020 and other programs. The presentation of the SRA at the workshop and discussions with participants had a crucial influence on framing the SRA with regards to the relation between linked open data and language technologies, see the SRA section "Linked Open Data and the Data Challenge".
In addition to the above presentations, during the first day several longer discussion sessions were held: a working session about identifying users and use cases - matching data to users, and a final discussion of action plans.
MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements
The second and the third day of the workshop were dedicated to gathering requirements about the Internationalization Tag Set 2.0, which is currently being developed within the MultilingualWeb-LT W3C Working Group. Several presentations highlighted different requirements. These are summarized briefly below.
After a welcome session for the ITS 2.0 discussion, the discussion of representation formats for ITS 2.0 metadata started with a presentation by Maxime Lefrançois. He explained the challenges for making the metadata available for or via Semantic Web technologies like RDF.
Three working sessions followed the representation format discussion: a session on quality metadata, on terminology metadata, and on updating ITS 1.0. The outcomes of these sessions and the two workshop days about ITS 2.0 requirements are summarized at the end of this executive summary.
In the content authoring requirements session, two presentations were given. Alex Lik emphasized the need of assuring interoperability of ITS 2.0 metadata with content related standards like DITA or localization workflow related standards like XLIFF. Des Oates reiterated that requirement with a focus on large scale localization workflows within Adobe. In these not only metadata is needed, but also the possibility for metadata round-tripping and a mechanism to expose metadata capabilities in a service oriented architecture.
The session on requirements on ITS 2.0 for localization scenarios started with a presentation from Bryan Schnabel. As the chair of the XLIFF technical committee, Bryan gave insights into current discussions within the XLIFF TC which are likely to influence the relation between XLIFF and ITS 2.0, and potentially the adoption of ITS 2.0 in general.
The second day closed with a presentation from Mark Davis about latest BCP 47 developments. BCP 47 is the standard for language tags, and recently extensions to BCP 47 have been created that overlap with functionality needed for ITS 2.0 metadata. The session was helpful in starting a coordination in standardization activities, that is now being continued between the relevant W3C working groups.
On the third day, the deep discussion sessions on ITS 2.0 requirements continued in various discussion sessions on implementation commitments, project information metadata, translation process metadata, provenance metadata, translation metadata, a summary of implementation commitments and a session on coordination and liaisons between the MultilingualWeb-LT group and other initiatives.
In the translation process metadata session, David Filip talked about the need to have ITS 2.0 metadata available in complex localization workflows, reiterating statements e.g. from Des Oates and Alex Lik.
The requirements gathering for ITS 2.0 was especially successful in terms of raising awareness for the upcoming metadata in various communities. These range from large cooperates with localize huge amounts of content on a daily basis, using both human and machine translation, to smaller localization technology providers who have their specific technological solutions.
Another main achievement was the consolidation of requirements. The Requirements for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 had been published only a few weeks before the workshop and provided a huge amount of proposed metadata items. Via the discussions during the workshop, many proposals were consolidated, taking both needs in real life use cases and judgement of efforts into account. Follow the link to the first working draft of ITS 2.0 to see the set of metadata items agreed upon by workshop participants.
The work within the MultilingualWeb-LT working group will now focus on selected additional metadata and implementations of the metadata proposals with real life use cases, including various "real" client-company scenarios. In this way, the usefulness of the metadata for filling gaps in the way towards a truly multilingual Web can be assured.
Day One: Linked Open Data
Welcome session
Vincent Wade, Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at TCD, welcomed the participants to Dublin and gave a brief speech emphasizing the important role that multilinguality and linked open data plays in Ireland, within CNGL or DERI, with support both from national and European funding.
Richard Ishida, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead and the leader of the EU MultilingualWeb project that funded the MultilingualWeb workshop series between 2009 and early 2012, emphasized the success of the MultilingualWeb workshop series so far and the plans to continue this series with a general MultilingualWeb workshop to be held next year.
Dave Lewis, research lecturer at the School of Computer Sciences & Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, introduced the participants to the goal of the first day: to discuss the intersection between multilingual technologies and linked open data, involving perspectives from areas like language technology, localization, and the Web. The 7th framework program of the EU, the upcoming Horizon 2020 program and national funding play an important role for moving these topics forward.
Kimmo Rossi the European Commission, DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT), project Officer for the MultilingualWeb and the MultilingualWeb-LT projects, started with information about a reorganization within the EU: As of 1st July 2012, the European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) has been created. Within DG CONNECT, the language technology area is now part of the data value chain unit: In the future, language technology will be seen in the context of topics like linked open data or public sector information. Language technology can help to leverage linked open data e.g. by extracting meaning from text or by converting structured data from unstructured data, and by bringing in work on language related resources (terminologies, ontologies, taxonomies etc.). Other significant remarks:
- Three EU calls are to be published in July, focusing on content analytics and language technologies, scalable data analytics, and an SME initiative on analytics.
- The EU currently is working out plans for a new funding program called Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
- The CEF proposal currently encompass the digital library Europeana, eGovernment & eHealth, open data and multilingual access to online services.
- The Dublin workshop gathered speakers from many of these areas and hence was an important opportunity to provide input for shaping CEF.
Setting the Stage
The Setting the Stage session was chaired by Paul Buitelaar from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI).
David Orban, CEO of dotSub, gave the keynote speech, entitled "The Privilege and Responsibility of Personal and Social Freedom in a World of Autonomous Machines." In his talk he provided a look into the future at the next generations of computing devices. The Web and the physical world are coming together in the Web or "Internet of Things." What will be the impact of this development on our society, and how can we prepare individuals, and society as a whole to cope with the onslaught of accelerating change in our lives and our civilization?. David Orban provided some views about and answers to these questions in his keynote. The main points are summarized via the bullet points below.
- In the age of autonomous machines (computers, vacuum cleaners, cars…) is coming and we need to be prepared for it.
- When building the multilingual Semantic web, we need to be aware that machines will be the producers and consumers of much of our content, enabling them to perform functions that currently require human intervention.
- The human component in Wikipedia-like approaches, combined with large-scale semantic processing, will lead to a massive, hybrid, and powerful system.
- Social interactions including the Internet of Things are emerging, both on the personal and political, decision-making level.
- David Orban proposed to follow the "Proactionary Principle": With the new technological developments, we need to develop a balanced approach towards decision making.
Peter Schmitz, Head of Unit Enterprise Architecture
at the Publications Office of the European Commission, talked about "Multilingualism and Linked Open Data in the EU Open Data Portal and Other Projects of the Publications Office." The talk presented contributions of the EU Publications Office (PO) to the Multilingual Web: daily publications in 23 languages, the multilingual thesaurus EuroVoc, multilingual controlled vocabularies, linked multilingual Web content, etc. The Publications Office is also heavily engaged in the European Open Data Portal and plans to provide dissemination of metadata as RDF, including persistant URIs. Other significant remarks:
- Annotation of official content by users is problematic, because use cases, the notion of quality or modes of collaboration between online communities, and public services are hard to define.
- Provenance tracking is an unsolved problem for linked open data, yet it is needed, e.g., for release management of EuroVoc or preservation of mappings in controlled vocabularies.
- Applications of linked open data in, e.g., eGovernment rely on sustainable, standardized identifiers like the "European Legislation Identifier."
- For the MultilingualWeb-LT effort, multilingual linked open data resources like thesauri or authority tables can help to improve machine translation or other multilingual technologies.
Juliane Stiller and Marlies Olensky, researchers at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-University Berlin, talked about "Europeana: A Multilingual Trailblazer". Europeana aggregates content from 33 different countries to provide access to cultural heritage content across languages. Multilinguality in Europeana is implemented via the translation of the user interface, cross-lingual search, and subject browsing. It relies on translation of metadata to allow searches to cross language barriers and leverage content from one language to assist search in another. The Europeana Data Model (EDM) has been created to foster interoperability on a semantic level, and has already enabled to project to publish 3.5 million objects as linked open data. Other significant remarks:
- EDM is available as a stable version, approved by several community workshops, encompassing specialists from libraries, archives, and museums.
- In the EuropeanaConnect project, alignment of Europeana with other resources like geonames has been achieved.
- Europeana encourages the re-use of its data by other European initiatives.
- Europeana is a trailblazer for the planned European Open Data Portal.
The Setting the Stage session on the first day ended with a Q&A period with questions and comments about the current and future state of multilingual technologies on the Web, about content from Europeana and the role of languages resources, and about the danger of "killing new topics by too much standardization." For more details, see the related links.
Linking Resources
The Linking Resources session was chaired by Dave Lewis from Trinity College Dublin.
Sebastian Hellmann, researcher at the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web research group at University of Leipzig, talked about "Linked Data in Linguistics for NLP and Web Annotation." The talk provided an overview of linguistic resources that are being added to the linked open data cloud, such as data extracted from language-specific Wikipedia editions and from the languages covered in Wiktionary, and the data developed within the Working Group for Open Linguistic Data. The Working Group is an Open Knowledge Foundation group with the goal of converting open linguistics data sets to RDF and interlinking them. For the sustainability of such resources, maintenance of the RDF data and open licences are important. Other significant remarks:
- Ontologies provide a formal documentation for tools in natural language processing.
- The NLP Interchange Format (NIF) is an RDF/OWL-based format that aims to achieve interoperability between such tools, language resources and annotations.
- After conversion to NIF, a wide range of RDF tools can be used, for example, those developed within the LOD2 project.
- NIF version 2.0 will foster interoperability with the resources mentioned above as well as major RDF vocabularies such as OLiA, Lemon, and NERD.
Dominic Jones research assistant at Trinity College Dublin's School of Computer Sciences & Statistics, talked about "Linking Localisation and Language Resources." The Drupal-based platform CMS-LION uses linked data as a way to connect content creators, consumers, language service providers, and translators. The output of various processes like text segmentation, machine translation, crowd-sourced post-editing, etc., is inter-connected through linked data, which is enriched using provenance data. Other significant remarks:
- Linked data allows for post-edits to be extracted and used in the re-training of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) engines.
- Future plans for CMS-LION includes re-training of SMT systems with RDF based provenance information. This will be done in close cooperation with the PANACEA project.
- CMS-LION will also integrate with the SOLAS system developed at the University of Limerick.
- Finally, the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 metadata currently being developed in the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT working group will be processed within CMS-LION for XLIFF round-tripping scenarios.
Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, associate professor at the University of Oviedo, talked about "Best Practices for Multilingual Linked Open Data." There are many projects that publish linked open data, such as data with labels/comments and other human-readable information, in various languages. Some issues occur frequently with multilingual linked open data; the presentation proposed seven best practices how to deal with these issues, related to e.g. the usage of Internationalized Resource Identifiers or multilingual vocabularies. Other significant remarks:
- URIs, that is resource identifiers, should be language agnostic; language specific information should be given by different labels and not by separate URIs.
- One should define human-readable labels for all URIs, but provide only one preferred label.
- Mechanisms that are also important for the Web like language tags or content negotiation should be used to make processing of information in different languages possible.
- Vocabularies in the Semantic Web should be multilingual; with this requirement, localization of ontologies becomes its own topic.
The Linking Resources session on the first day ended with a Q&A period with questions and comments about the usage of Internationalized Resource Identifiers within linked open data, difficulties with modeling lexical mismatches between languages (e.g. "Gift" in German vs. "gift" in English), various concepts for provenance and RDF based linguistic data in general. For more details, see the related links.
Linked Open Data and the Lexicon
The Linked Open Data and the Lexicon session was chaired by Arle Lommel from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Alan Melby, director of the Translation Research Group at Brigham Young University, gave a talk about "Bringing Terminology to Linked Data through TBX." Terminology and linked open data are currently separate fields. To address this challenge, the TermBase eXchange (TBX) format in its latest version is currently being developed to include an isomorphic RDF version, RDF-TBX. This will allow to integrate the huge amount of linked open data available into terminological applications. For the linked open data community, TBX based resources can help with disambiguation tasks in multilingual scenarios and a concept based approach towards translation of linked open data. Other significant remarks:
- Via an RDF representation of TBX, linked open data can be enriched with links to a termbase that has been converted to RDF-TBX.
- Using conceptual, that is language agnostic resources available in the Semantic Web, an automated conversions between existing terminology resources may be possible.
- RDF-TBX may be able to address the separation between terminology and linked open data; this workshop was helpful in building the necessary human relations between the two communities to make this happen.
Ioannis Iakovidis, managing director at Interverbum Technology, gave a talk about "Challenges with Linked Data and Terminology." The integration of structured terminology data into linked open data is a challenge, especially in commercial environments. The TermWeb solution is a Web-based terminology management system that integrates with widely adopted software, e.g., office applications. There are various challenges that needs to be addressed for Web based terminology management systems, e.g.:
- Tools use different APIs based on different technology stacks, which makes integration hard.
- Term identification is not only a task on the Web but also within various types of content such as software code or different content formats.
- The context of a term needs to be taken into account, again both on the Web and in other areas.
Standardization in various areas is a prerequisite to address these challenges. The formats and technologies provided by linked open data may be the standardized technology stack that provides the functionality needed to achieve these goals.
Tatiana Gornostay, terminology service manager at Tilde, talked about "Extending the Use of Web-Based Terminology Services." Tilde is currently advancing the establishment of cloud-based platforms for acquiring, sharing, and reusing language resources. The main application scenario is to improve automated natural language data processing tasks like machine translation. The exposure of terminology services on the Web allows for integration with machine translation systems, indexing systems, and search engines. Other significant remarks:
- Terminology is a language, "spoken" by language workers: translators, terminologists, technical writers, etc.
- Terminology can bridge the communities of linked open data, multilingual Web, and multilingual language technologies.
- EuroTermBank is a current solution for sharing and exchanging terminology, via the META-SHARE repositories of language data.
- Projects related to terminology on the Web include TaaS (Terminology as a Service), Let's MT!, ACCURAT and TTC.
John McCrae, research associate at the University of Bielefeld, talked about "The Need for Lexicalization of Linked Data." The talk presented Lemon (Lexicon Model for Ontologies), a model for describing lexical information relative to ontologies. Lemon is based on existing models for representing lexical information (Lexical Markup Framework and SKOS) and aims to bridge the gap between the existing linked data cloud and the growing linguistic linked data cloud. Via the linguistic linked data cloud, a significant amount of multilingual data can be re-used in a variety of applications. Other significant remarks:
- While linked data is frequently independent of language, the interpretation of this data requires natural language identifiers in order to be meaningful to the end user.
- Labels in linked open data are not used frequently; multilingual labels make up less than one percent of the linked open data cloud.
- Applications of LEMON include for example answering natural language questions about linked data, adaptation of linked data vocabularies to machine translation in new languages, and natural language generation.
Phil Archer, W3C team member working on eGovernment, talked about "Cool URIs Are Human Readable." The EU is developing various standardized vocabularies for describing people, businesses, locations, etc. Currently the documentation for these is in English; in addition to the task of finding funding for the localization effort, political issues come into play: language, cultural identity, and trust need to be taken into account. This requirements influences basic decisions like choosing an URI that is neutral and acceptable across national borders: Vocabularies must be available at a stable URI, be subject to an identifiable policy on change control, and be published on a domain that is both politically and geographically neutral. Other significant remarks:
- One must not overlook the importance of branding and/or national identify inherent in a domain name.
- A domain name like
is geographically and politically neutral when compared toxmlns.eu
. - Localisation of linked open data via different URIs for different language are not a good practice, but may actually help to increase adoption and interoperability.
The Linking Open Data and the Lexicon session on the first day ended with a Q&A period with a discussion about how the problems discussed relate to linguistic research and modeling in the area of semantics (which has a long tradition), about the limits of formalizing concepts, and about issues with the translating terms in different languages. For more details, see the related links.
Identifying Users and Use Cases Matching Data to Users
The Identifying Users and Use Cases Matching Data to Users session was chaired by Thierry Declerck from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
This working session featured discussion about the use cases and user groups interested in linked open data. The process of identifying users and getting their feedback on requirements is difficult, particularly because, while some users are multilingual, most are monolingual and gaining their input requires careful analysis of server logs and other resources to determine how they interact with content. One of the difficulties for multilingual linked open data is that it is often generated at the end of the production chain, when it is difficult to make needed changes. Finally, it was emphasized that developers need to recall that linked data does not always equal linked open data: there are many cases where users will want to use linked data technologies but cannot make data open due to legal or privacy restrictions (e.g., linked data refers to identifiable personal information). As a result linked open data developers need to consider security requirements and build in ways to deal with them early on, and consider the ways in which linked data can move between open and closed categories.
Building Bridges
The Building Bridges session was chaired by Kimmo Rossi from the European Commission.
Georg Rehm from DFKI gave a talk about the "META-NET Strategic Research Agenda and Linked Open Data." META-NET is developing a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for the European Language Technology research community. For the SRA, three priority themes have emerged: (1) the Translation Cloud, (2) Social Intelligence and e-Participation, and (3) Socially Aware Interactive Assistants. In all these areas, linked open data plays a crucial role. For example, data can be used to generate cross-lingual references between named entities as a part of the translation cloud, or to exploit publicly available government data to foster e-participation across Europe. Other significant remarks:
- As other presentations in the workshop have shown, interlinked language resources are becoming an inherent part of the linked open data cloud.
- This development shows that the linked open data community and the language technology community should work together in developing further long-term research goals.
- The "data challenge" will be an important aspect of the upcoming Horizon 2020 research program.
The Building Bridges session on the first day ended with a Q&A period with questions and comments about the legal frameworks discussed in the session, the prospects for disruptive change from language technology and how far things have come in just the past decade, and the difficulties in extending human language technologies for smaller languages, and other issues around extending multilingualism's benefits to those in need. For more details, see the related links.
Action Plans
The Action Plans session was chaired by Dave Lewis from Trinity College Dublin.
Dave Lewis led the discussion about action plans coming out of the first workshops day. The discussion focused on what is needed to achieve concrete developments in the area of multilingual linked open data. As a community, practitioners need to address motivations and incentives for maintenance: as present much of the data is made available by researchers to support specific projects, but extending data and maintaining it is an expensive proposition and the community needs to figure out sustainable models to address these issues. There is also a clear need for best practices to help organizations make their data available and lower the costs involved in doing so. One issue is that those who benefit from linked open data may or may not be the same people who bear the cost of publishing it, so we do not yet see the business model needed to support extensive issues in this area, with a focus on resolving payment issues. Kimmo Rossi closed my stating that he sees these developments as taking a number of years, but that we need to start reaching out now to the broader linked open data community to ensure that multilingualism is a core concern and that the solutions that are developed will meet the needs of a multilingual society.
Days 2 & 3: MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements
Welcome Session
Felix Sasaki, senior researcher at DFKI and W3C fellow, talked about "State of Requirements." He introduced the Requirements for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 Working Draft and discussed its contents and the process for moving data categories forward in the W3C process.
Representation Formats: HTML, XML, RDFa, etc...
The Representation Formats session was chaired by Jirka Kosek from University of Economics Prague.
Maxime Lefrançois, researcher at Inria, talked about "MLW-LT, the Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data." The standardization efforts of the MultilingualWeb-LT working group is focused on HTML5 and XML as content formats. The challenge is to integrate these formats and ITS 2.0 metadata with Semantic Web and linked open data approaches. Addressing the challenge will help to interface better with the linked open data community. Other significant remarks:
- Various technological approaches to add metadata to HTML5 or XML exist: RDFa, microdata, NIF (esp. for linguistic annotations), and general attributes in HTML5 and XML, used also in ITS 2.0.
- A main question is how to map XML specific mechanisms in ITS (e.g. so-called global rules) to the RDF world.
- Other ongoing standardization work like the development of the W3C provenance model can provide to a potential solution.
Quality Metadata
The Quality metadata session was chaired by Phil Ritchie from VistaTEC.
Phil Ritchie of VistTEC was joined by Arle Lommel (DFKI) to discuss a proposal for an ITS 2.0 model for marking language quality data in XML and HTML5 documents. The proposal sparked discussion about the needs of the group, the difficulties in exchanging quality data, and the verbosity of the proposed model (with standoff markup as one proposal for how to address the issue of verbosity and also data security). Overall the group felt that the proposal needed more elaboration in some key points and Ritchie and Lommel were charged with moving it forward.
Terminology Metadata
The "Terminology metadata" session was chaired by Tadej Štajner from Jožef Stefan Institute.
Tadej Štajner led a discussion about the ways to address terminology needs in ITS 2.0. While fully automated terminology work is not possible, there is a need for mechanism to tag term candidates in documents so that subsequent processes can evaluate them and make appropriate decisions. In discussion, the following points were raised:
- While ITS 1.0 already addressed term definition, there is a need for more sophisticated metadata about terms to support the full lifecycle of terminology research.
- The relationship between human- and machine-oriented terminology needs to be addressed. The requirements for each are different, and any solution must account for these differences.
- The development of an ITS 2.0 markup for terminology holds great promise to help content creators deal more effectively with terminology and integrate more closely with their partners.
Updating ITS 1.0 (Review of Data Categories from ITS 1.0)
The "Updating ITS 1.0" session was chaired by Felix Sasaki from DFKI / W3C.
In this section the group discussed updates to the existing ITS 1.0 data categories in ITS 2.0 to ensure that there was agreement about the details. In most cases, existing data categories are being adopted as is, but there was particular discussion about updating the ruby model to take into account work done in the HTML5 ruby model.
Localization Requirements
The Localization Requirements session was chaired by Yves Savourel from Enlaso.
Bryan Schnabel, chair of the XLIFF Technical Committee, gave a speech, entitled "Encoding ITS 2.0 Metadata to Facilitate an XLIFF Roundtrip." Currently XLIFF 2.0 is under development and one major topic under discussion is how to support extensibility in XLIFF 2.0. The decisions about extensibility will also influence the role ITS 2.0 metadata may play in XLIFF. The presentation discusses three options with regards to extensibility in detail and shows how to achieve metadata round-tripping with XLIFF and various content formats. Other significant remarks:
- XSLT-based roundtripping of content formats is available for DITA and the Drupal CMS.
- One way to move forward with ITS 2.0 metadata in XLIFF 2.0 would be to provide native support in XLIFF 2.0 rather than not to address ITS 2.0 as an extension.
- Communities outside the XLIFF technical committee should also raise their voice in the extensibility discussion, to assure interoperability with various content formats and metadata items.
BCP 47 Developments
The BCP 47 Developments session was chaired by Felix Sasaki from DFKI / W3C.
Mark Davis, Sr. internationalization architect at Google and president of the Unicode Consortium, talked about "Coordinating the BCP47 't' Extension with MLW-LT Data Categories." The standard for language tags BCP 47 currently has two so-called registered extensions (see the language tag extensions registry): one for setting behavior in locale APIs, the Unicode Locale Extension ("u"), and an extension ("t") to identify content that has been transformed, including but not limited to: transliteration, transcription, and translation. Since ITS 2.0 metadata is also concerned with these processes, coordination is needed, to avoid conflicts between metadata conveyed via the BCP 47 extension and the to-be-developed ITS 2.0 metadata. Other significant remarks:
- The BCP 47 "t" extension for transformations can be used both for identifying that a transformation has happened (e.g., text has been translated from English to Russian), and for requesting a translation e.g. from a Web service (e.g., "translate this text from English to Russian").
- Various types of transformation are registered in the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository, such as general transformations and machine translation.
- Tools harvesting Web content, e.g., for machine translation training, need to do the right thing for processing language tags with or without the "t" extension.
- The "t" extension is not meant for usage in localization-specific structured data like XLIFF.
Implementation Commitments
The "implementation commitments" session was chaired by Felix Sasaki from DFKI / W3C.
The session discussed the importance in the W3C process of getting firm implementation commitments very soon since any data category without implementation commitments will be dropped. The current status of these commitments will be maintained on a commitment wiki.
Project Information Metadata
The Project Information Metadata session was chaired by David Filip from University of Limerick.
This session discussed various proposal for project information metadata. It resulted in dropping translation qualification, genre, format type, purpose, and a number of other metadata proposals, but retained domain for discussion, although a number of issues need to be resolved.
Translation Process Metadata
The Translation Process Metadata session was chaired by Pedro Díez from Linguaserve.
David Filip, CNGL, talked about "Translation (Localization) Process Metadata?." All ITS 2.0 metadata items are orthogonal. However, in enterprise environments, the metadata has to work with many different types of workflows (see also the presentation from Des Oates) in a huge, service-oriented architecture. This includes, for example, terminology and translation memory life-cycles. In such a scenario, orthogonal categories must sync on the fly. Under the umbrella of the MultilingualWeb-LT working group, Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick are working on implementations that help to support this requirement for ITS 2.0 metadata. Other significant remarks:
- Provenance models should not be invented separately for each metadata item. Instead, they should be specified using the same model in a consistent manner.
- The SOLAS system developed at the University of Limerick is the test bed for a service oriented architecture using metadata in localization workflows.
- The current set of ITS 2.0 metadata includes many proposals related to the translation and localization process; these need to be consolidated.
Pedro Díez led a discussion on various process-related metadata proposals with the goal of creating data-driven processes. Various categories like readiness indicator and state attributes could offer a lot of value to users, but the relationship with APIs needs to be clarified. ITS 2.0 also needs to be coordinated with XLIFF in this area to avoid a collision of definitions between the two. ITS 2.0 has the potential to bring together stages outside of the scope of XLIFF, such as CMS-side authoring.
Provenance Metadata
The Provenance Metadata session was chaired by Dave Lewis from Trinity College Dublin.
Provenance has emerged in recent years as a major topic because knowing where content came from and how it was produced can have a major impact on what is done with it, what quality processes are used, and how trustworthy the content is. The W3C currently has a Provenance working group, and it was agreed that the ITS 2.0 team should approach the Provenance working group to ensure that our efforts are coordinated with theirs. There remains considerable work to be done on defining the ITS 2.0 provenance model and specifying the use cases, but this topic is one that will continue to be very important.
Translation Metadata
The Translation Metadata session was chaired by Yves Savourel from Enlaso.
Much of the discussion in this section centered on the target pointer proposal, which has implementation commitments from Yves Savourel and Shaun McCance have both committed to implementing it because it allows for basic processing of multilingual XML files without requiring full support for an XML file in some cases. The second category was locale filter, which provides a way for authors to specify into which locales specific content items should be translated. The auto language processing rule category required more elaboration. Next the term location category was discussed as an equivalent to the XLIFF restype category. The end result was that more information is needed on some of these categories before decisions can be made whether to incorporate them or not.
Implementation Commitments and Plans
The Implementation Commitments and Plans session was chaired by Felix Sasaki from DFKI / W3C.
The goal of this section was to gain firm implementation commitments for data categories. It was agreed that all implementation commitments should be finalized by mid-July, at which point Felix Sasaki was to create a new draft of the specification that included those categories for which there were sufficient commitments. All creators of data categories were to work to build consensus on their proposals and commitments to implement the proposed definitions.
Coordination and Liaison with Other Initiatives
The Coordination and Liaison with Other Initiatives session was chaired by David Filip from University of Limerick.
This working session discussed the relationship between the ITS 2.0 effort and other groups, such as XLIFF, ISO TC 37, and the ETSI ISG LIS, as well as participation in the upcoming FEISGILTT conference in October to be held in conjunction with Localization World. David Filip invited participants in the Workshop who were interested in participating in the program committee for that program to get involved.
Closing Remarks
The Fifth Multilingual Web Workshop was closed by Arle Lommel from DFKI.
This section ended the Workshop with special thanks to the staff of Trinity College Dublin, especially Eithne McCann and Dominic Jones for their support in running a successful workshop. The next Workshop, which will return to the broader, more general format of previous Multilingual Web workshops, was announced tentatively for Rome in March 2013.


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I think there is an area that really needs to be focused on regarding Wall Street and needed justice.
1) We want prosecution of the Wall Street criminals who have destroyed our economy, ripped off pensioners, conned home owners and more. Not one arrest has been made of a significant Wall Street Crook. Mozilla walked free. Even during the Savings and Loan crisis which pales in comprarison on scale to this one, there were hundreds of arrests. There is not political will here. The crooks are walking free and laughing at the 99 percent.
2) We want unregulated commodities and oil trading to stop immediately. Unregulated oil and commodity trading has created price speculation resulting in the high prices of fuel and foods. POOR PEOPLE ARE DYING ALL OVER THE WORLD DUE TO COMMODITIES SPECULATION!!! Stopping this will save lives and help to revive the economy.
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HTML reports are not rendering due to https HTML reports are not rendering due to https
Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:33 AM
I have used birt viewer in my application. The application in the https. When i render the report from the application, the URL framed to run the report is like taking as "http" and the port as '80'. As shown below
As I run the application with https the birt viewer should get the protocol as "https" and as it is secured the port number should be '443'. For example its shown below
Due to this when I render the HTML report Im getting javscript error("constant.js is undefined" I suspect this error is due to following reason "it couldnt read the file using http since the application is running in https"). where as the other reports pdf,word,excel are able to generate.
Kindly let me know why the birt viewer is getting the protocol as "http" and port number as "80", even though i run the apllication with secured enabled (ie) through "https".
Posted 25 April 2012 - 09:42 AM
Posted 26 April 2012 - 12:16 AM
what do you mean by: "i have also set all iframes src attribute with a temp blank.html, to avoid https secure warning message"
It shoudn't be required to do any changes in the viewer to run https. You just have to add some string to special javacript statements in the HTML to avoid a warning in IE but you must not replace something with a blank html page.
Have a look at: http://www.xing.com/...-group-mannheim or write me an email
Posted 26 April 2012 - 12:53 AM
Kindly let me know the javascript to be added and im getting the "http" as protocol and "80" as port number even though the application runs in the https application.As mentioned im using BIRT Viewer 3.7 version.
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I am looking for a website that is free and where I can learn to write better T-SQL views and stored procedures. Also, would like to find some good books to learn more about managing a SQL 2005 database.
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I like Cadwallon City of Thieves and the artwork is reminiscent of it (I know, they are both Dust games). Just wondering if it's the same setting.
The game itself looks pretty interesting. I look forward to more previews.
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I don't believe it is set in the same world as Cadwallon: City of Thieves. It just looks that way since they have a bunch of new artists who are working for them, so everything looks the same.
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There's new blood at Burger King in the form of hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose Justice Holdings now has a 29-percent stake in the company.
According to Nation's Restaurant News, Ackman is laying plans for Burger King to overtake category leader McDonald's by using some of the same turnaround methods employed by the No. 1 chain.
"Burger King will do the same things, and do [them] much more rapidly," he said.
It sounds logical. All a company has to do to become successful is to look at what the category leader is doing and then do it better. Or faster. Or cheaper.
But it doesn't work.
What does work may sound illogical, but nevertheless is a core marketing strategy: Be the exact opposite of the leader.
Consider energy drinks, for example. Red Bull was the first energy-drink brand and rapidly became the global market leader, with sales last year of $5.6 billion.
One of the distinctive features of the Red Bull brand is its small, 8.3-ounce can. Like a stick of dynamite, the small can communicates the burst of energy you get by drinking Red Bull.
So it made sense for a raft of competitors to introduce their own energy-drink brands in 8.3-ounce cans. Amp, Hype, Power Full, Red Devil, Rush! and hundreds of other brands were launched in 8.3-ounce cans to compete with Red Bull. Even Coca-Cola entered the market with a brand called KMX — in an 8.3-ounce can, of course.
Then came Monster, which was one of the first brands to be introduced in 16-ounce cans.
Today Red Bull is still the global leader, but Monster is a strong No. 2 brand. In the American market Red Bull has a 43-percent share and Monster a 35-percent share. Rockstar, the No. 3 brand, has a market share of just 12 percent.
On the stock market Monster Beverage Corp. has a market capitalization of $10.4 billion. Not bad for a company whose major brand wasn't launched until 2002. Note that Burger King Worldwide has a market capitalization of $4.7 billion.
Back in its golden days, Burger King had a differentiation strategy, too, in the form of an advertising program highlighting the fact that the chain broiled its burgers rather than frying them.
Led by Burger King's dynamic former president Jeffrey Campbell and dubbed the Battle of the Burgers, the campaign generated a lot of consumer interest and favorable mentions in the media. But it ran only two years — from 1982 to 1984.
By the end of the campaign, McDonald's lead in per-unit sales had been cut to just 26 percent. Today McDonald's is ahead in per-unit sales by 116 percent.
Since then, everything has gone pretty much downhill for Burger King. The chain's biggest problem is it's trying to copy McDonald's rather than trying to be the opposite. Here's the proof:
• McDonald's introduced Ronald McDonald. Burger King introduced the King.
• McDonald's introduced Chicken McNuggets. Burger King introduced Chicken Tenders.
• McDonald's installed playgrounds to attract kids. Burger King installed playgrounds to attract kids.
• McDonald's added a dollar menu. Burger King added a dollar menu.
• McDonald's added fruit smoothies. Burger King added fruit smoothies.
And so on.
The bad news for Burger King continues. Last year they fell behind Wendy's in U.S. sales, the first time that had happened since 1969, the year Wendy's was founded.
But McDonald's does have some vulnerability.
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"McDonald's brand perception isn't keeping pace with sales," Advertising Age reported earlier this year. "According to people close to the company, its internal tracking system finds that McDonald's consistently ranks near the bottom in quality perception when compared with rivals."
A menu is like a mattress. The more weight you put on a mattress, the lower it sinks. The more items you put on a menu, the lower the quality perception.
Whether it's steak at a steakhouse, coffee at a coffeehouse, pizza at a pizza place or chicken at a chicken joint, the principle is the same. A specialist is usually considered to serve higher quality food than a generalist.
When McDonald's was a hamburger restaurant, its hamburgers had a higher quality perception than they do today. Who's to say whether they actually have declined in quality or not? In marketing, truth doesn't matter. Only perception does.
What saves McDonald's is its convenience factor and perceived leadership. McDonald's has 14,098 domestic units, almost twice many as Burger King's 7,212 units.
On average, a consumer has a longer trip to make to visit a Burger King restaurant than a McDonald's restaurant. Burger King needs a reason for consumers to take the extra time to make that trip. And Burger King can't win that battle by emulating the menu at McDonald's.
It can only win by narrowing its focus and being the opposite.
Burger King should have trimmed its menu to burgers and related items years ago, which would have helped it live up to its name and differentiate itself from McDonald's.
There are also other ways Burger King could have accomplished that goal. McDonald's uses frozen hamburgers, so Burger King should have used fresh hamburgers. McDonald's makes hamburgers in advance, so Burger King should have made them to order.
Compare Burger King's extensive menu to that of Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which sells only burgers, hot dogs, French fries, and veggie and grilled-cheese sandwiches.
Yet Five Guys' per-unit sales of $1.15 million last year were ahead of Burger King's $1.12 million. In addition, Five Guys' per-unit sales were up 2 percent last year, while Burger King's per-unit sales were down 3 percent.
So if you were running Burger King, what would you do? Expand the menu? Or do the opposite?
The dozens of chief executives who have run Burger King over the past few decades have made the logical choice to expand the menu.
It makes sense that all a company has to do to become successful is to look at what the category leader is doing and then do it better. Or faster. Or cheaper.
It just doesn't work.
Laura Ries is president of Ries & Ries, a marketing consulting firm located in Atlanta. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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On Tuesday, the world-reknowned chef showed off the smoked meat facility his company built here after its predecessor in Melville burned to the ground in 2008.
"The economy was topsy-turvy; financial institutions were skittish. Financing a project like this was tough," Prudhomme noted before formal ceremonies began.
In stepped the USDA Rural Development Office out of Alexandria, with the financing to get the rebuilding off the ground.
"This is what we are about," said USDA State Director Clarence W. Hawkins, speaking to a large crowd that turned out for the public walk-thru, sizzling sausage sampling and music by the legendary Hadley Castille and his band.
Promoting and preserving rural America is what his agency is about, Hawkins noted.
In this case, there are 13 Magic Seasonings employees who the company kept on the payroll, with benefits, even though their place of business was gone.
Now, Hawkins noted, the company is about to add four or five new employees at the $4 million-plus facility.
Plant manager Joey Duplechain, whose father, who still works there, was manager before him, said the Palmetto facility shipped about 400,000 pounds of andouille sausage in 2011, its first year in operation, as well as hundreds of links of tasso sausage.
The sausage is processed and packaged on site before being shipped to vendors worldwide.


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Kyle Blankenship has been named the Head Coach to lead the LSU Shreveport Pilots men's basketball team. He returns to LSUS as a coach after a one year stint at Lamar State College and the previous two seasons at Rogers State University. He was the first assistant coach at both schools.
"I am very grateful for the opportunity to become the new Head Coach at LSUS. I have been very fortunate during my coaching and playing career to be a part of some great teams with great players, while also working and playing for several coaches that have helped mold me into the coach I am today. I cannot even begin to verbalize how excited I am to be returning home to LSUS," said Blankenship.
"I am looking forward to embracing the tradition and building on the tremendous success Coach McDowell and this program has had over the last nine years," he continued. I know that with the help of our administration, faculty, staff, coaches and students we can continue to make LSUS a wonderful university where great things happen."
Blankenship also played one season at LSUS, finishing his playing career in 2006 for the Pilots. As a player and coach Blankenship helped the Pilots to a 106-27 overall record, two regular season Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) titles, four consecutive GCAC Tournament championships (2006-2009) and four straight NAIA National Tournament appearances (2006-2009).
Blankenship guided the Pilots offense to a record-breaking season and a No. 1 national ranking during his senior season. He finished his career at LSUS as the school's single-season assists leader (199) and single-game assists record holder (14), while leading the nation in assists-to-turnover ratio.
He began his playing career at The University of Tulsa in 2001 where he was a team captain, three-year letter winner and a member of two Western Athletic Conference championship teams. During those two seasons, the team made consecutive appearances in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. After transferring to LSUS to complete his collegiate eligibility, Blankenship returned to Tulsa and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.
The Shreveport native was a standout high school player at C.E. Byrd High School from 1997-2001, playing all four seasons for former LSUS Head Coach Chad McDowell. Blankenship was a two-time All-City selection as a junior and a senior, while earning All-State honors as a senior.
Former men's basketball coach Chad McDowell, who is in the transition to be the next Athletic Director at LSUS, has high praise for the new leader of the program, "It's exciting to have Kyle Blankenship back at LSUS. He is a fantastic young coach who has experience as a player and coach at multiple levels of competition. Kyle is a very good recruiter and has a great understanding of basketball. He served as an assistant coach in three highly successful programs over the past six years. He is a leader who will do a superb job serving as the Head Coach for our men's basketball program."


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Obituaries , July 21 2007
Rev. James Harvey and Helen McNeill Martin
A memorial service for Helen and Jim Martin will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at First Christian Church, 415 Audubon Dr., Paducah, Ky.
Jim died November 29, 2006 and Helen died May 26, 2007.
The Martins were devoted to their family and friends as well as serving together in the ministry for over 56 years, most of this in Tennessee.
Memorials may be made to Circle of Life Hospice, 901 Jones Road, Springdale, Ariz. 72764.
You may contact the family through Beard


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The Mortal Instruments
Author | Cassandra Clare |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, young-adult fiction, urban fantasy |
Publisher | Margaret K. McElderry (US) Walker Books (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Arena Verlag (Germany) Univers Poche (France) |
Published | March 27, 2007 – Present |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) Audiobook |
Followed by | The Infernal Devices |
The Mortal Instruments is a series of six young adult fantasy novels written by Cassandra Clare, of which five have been published so far.
Contents |
Publication history [edit]
- City of Bones (published March 27, 2007)
- City of Ashes (published March 25, 2008)
- City of Glass (published March 24, 2009)
- City of Fallen Angels (published April 5, 2011)
- City of Lost Souls (published May 8, 2012)
- City of Heavenly Fire (scheduled for March 1, 2014)
Main Characters [edit]
Clarissa 'Clary' Fray/Fairchild/Morgenstern is described to have long, curly red hair and bright green eyes. She is very small and thin and often viewed as younger than she actually is. Clary is an artist and in the first book, City of Bones, she believes she is a mundane, or a human without angel powers. It is later revealed she is in fact a Shadowhunter, or a human with angelic qualities. Clary is described as being incredibly stubborn and often rushes into dangerous situations without thinking about the consequences. Her best friend in the series is Simon Lewis and she is dating Jace Wayland/Lightwood/Morgenstern/Herondale.
Jace (J.C, Jonathan Christopher) Wayland/Lightwood/Morgenstern/Herondale is a Shadowhunter and described as being tall and muscular with scars across his golden skin from worn-out runes, or magical Marks. He has curly blond hair and golden eyes, and, like Clary, he is part angel. Jace is one of the best fighters the Nephilim have and is always ready to defend his family. Jace is often flirty and insensitive, and is described to have 'pretend' arrogance. Throughout the books, Jace's family remains unknown. In City of Bones, he believes he is a Wayland but at the end of the book Valentine Morgenstern reveals to him that he is Jace's father. However, in City of Glass, Jace is told his father is actually Stephen Herondale. Throughout the book Jace's last name remains uncertain, but in City of Glass, he decides that he wants to take the last name of his adoptive family, the Lightwoods.
Simon Lewis is relatively small with curly brown hair, brown eyes and glasses. He is often seen wearing t-shirts with gamer slogans. In City of Lost Souls, Simon describes himself as being 'hipster' but his best friend Clary Fray/Fairchild/Morgenstern tells him he is a geek. Simon is the only character to begin his life as a mundane, but in City of Ashes he is transformed into a vampire. Simon is quirky and caring, often putting other people before himself. In City of Fallen Angels, Simon finds himself in a love triangle with the characters of Maia Roberts and Isabelle Lightwood; however, in City of Lost Souls it becomes apparent that he and Isabelle are a couple.
Isabelle Lightwood is a Shadowhunter; tall and thin, she has long black hair and dark brown eyes, and is often carrying her trademark gold whip. Isabelle is described as being incredibly girly but with a fierce attitude. She is often considered flirty and never seems committed with relationships, although in City of Lost Souls, she admits to being in love with Simon Lewis.
Alec Lightwood is the oldest Lightwood Shadowhunter. Alec has floppy black hair and beautiful blue eyes. He is described as being quiet but protective of his younger siblings Isabelle and Max (died in City of Glass). Alec believes he is in love with Jace in The City of Bones, but then he meets Magnus Bane and in City of Glass kisses him in front of his parents, revealing that he is gay. In City of Fallen Angels and City of Lost Souls, Alec becomes insecure about his and Magnus's relationship because of Magnus's immortality. This insecurity leads him to consider turning Magnus mortal against his will, which causes Magnus to break up with him in City of Lost Souls.
Magnus Bane is the High Warlock of Brooklyn. Magnus is an 800 year old warlock who appears 19. He is tall and thin with jet black hair and amber and green cat eyes. Magnus Bane is often described to wear glitter and throws countless parties. Magnus begins a relationship with Alec Lightwood, therefore he feels obliged to become the New York Shadowhunters 'pet warlock' in order to impress Alec. Magnus appears in the prequel to The Mortal Instruments--The Infernal Devices--and there is a series of 10 short stories describing some of the events that occurred in Magnus Bane's long life to be released starting April 16, 2013, titled The Bane Chronicles.
Critical reception [edit]
City of Bones was highly popular at the time of release, reaching #8 on the New York Times Best Seller list (Children's books) in April 2007.[1] City of Ashes was one of the YALSA's top ten teen books for 2009.[2]
Publishers Weekly commented that it "is a sprawling urban fantasy packed with just about every type of creature known to the genre".[3] Locus praised the book as "a highly readable first novel".[4] Booklist said that there was "plenty of romance, loss, honor, and betrayal to make the journey worthwhile. An experienced storyteller, Clare moves the plot quickly to a satisfying end."[5] School Library Journal said "Though the story is hampered by predictability and overblown writing, Clare continues her talent for mixing hip, modern humor with traditional fantasy, and fans eagerly awaiting the series conclusion should come away more than satisfied."[6] A review in the School Library Journal noted that the book contained a variety of narrative flaws including characters that were "sporadically characterized" and whose behavior was predictable. In spite of this they noted that the book was entertaining and would leave readers anticipating the next installment.[7]
Popular culture references [edit]
In City of Ashes, the Faerie Realm and its inhabitants are characters from Holly Black's faerie series, beginning with Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale. Also, the characters Val and Luis from Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie appear in another scene in that book. Within Holly Black's third book, Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale, there is a reference to the Mortal Cup mentioned in the Mortal Instruments series.
Further books in the series [edit]
Prequels [edit]
Cassandra Clare has written a series of prequels called The Infernal Devices set in the same universe as The Mortal Instruments, but in the Victorian era. This series consists of three books: Clockwork Angel, published on August 31, 2010, Clockwork Prince, published December 6, 2011, and Clockwork Princess, published March 19, 2013.[8] There is the potential for an as yet untitled sequel series to The Infernal Devices set in the same universe detailing the adventures of the next generation of Shadowhunters almost two decades after the events of Clockwork Princess.
Sequels [edit]
Cassandra Clare has announced a new series of sequels called The Dark Artifices set in the same universe as The Mortal Instruments, but five years in the future. This series will be a trilogy with all new characters and the focus will shift from New York to the Los Angeles Institute. They are to be called "Lady Midnight", "Prince of Shadows", and "The Queen of Air and Darkness". The first book is scheduled to be published in 2015.[9]
Film adaptations [edit]
On June 10, 2010, Screen Gems announced that they were going into production on a film adaptation of City of Bones, with a script written by Jessica Postigo.[10] Harald Zwart was announced as the film's director, with Lily Collins starring as Clary Fray.[11] The role of Jace Wayland was initially offered to Alex Pettyfer, who declined the role, with Jamie Campbell Bower eventually being cast as Wayland.[12][13] Later casting announcements stated that Robert Maillet, Robert Sheehan, Godfrey Gao, Lena Headey, Jared Harris, Jemima West and Jonathan Rhys Meyers would be joining the cast.[14] Elyas M'Barek of The Wave and Türkisch für Anfänger fame has been cast as a vampire lieutenant. [15] Raphael will not be in City of Bones, nor will Max Lightwood (since he does not appear in the book.) A teaser trailer for the movie was released in November of 2012, and a second trailer will be released at the end of March 2013.
The film has a projected release date of August 23, 2013,[16] Shooting was done in Toronto and Hamilton in late August and November.[17][18]
References [edit]
- ^ "Children's Books". nytimes.com. April 22, 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ^ ALA Teen's Top Ten 2008
- ^ "Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/9/2007". Publishers Weekly. 2007-04-09. Retrieved 2008-01-11.[dead link]
- ^ Locus - "The Mortal Instruments, Book One: City of Bones", Faren Miller, June 2007
- ^ "Booklist Review: City of Glass". Booklist. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Langhans, Eliza. "Grades 5 & Up". School Library Journal. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)". School Library Journal. 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
- ^ Henderson, William. "Want to Know How Cassandra Clare's Widely Anticipated Clockwork Princess Begins?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Driscoll, Molly (March 15, 2012). "Cassandra Clare offers a few hints about her next Shadowhunters series". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Bettinger, Brendan. "Screen Gems Positioning CITY OF BONES as the First Film in a MORTAL INSTRUMENTS Franchise". Collider. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Meza, Ed (April 20, 2012). "Constantin boards Clare, Black project: 'The Iron Trial' centers on boy magician". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Jamie Campbell Bower Cast as Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments". Reelz. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Wilkinson, aMY. "'Mortal Instruments' Author Cassandra Clare Reacts To Jamie Campbell Bower Casting". MTV. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "City of Bones Casts Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Valentine". Oh No They Didn't. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-star-elyas-mbarek-cast-364722
- ^ "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Heads to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones". Coming Soon. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ RODRIGUEZ, Cain. "http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jonathan-rhys-meyers-is-a-shadowhunter-in-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones-20120808#". IndieWire. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Kennedy, John. "Total Recall kicks off season of big movies made in Toronto Read it on Global News: Global Edmonton | Total Recall kicks off season of big movies made in Toronto". Global Edmonton. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
External links [edit]
- The Mortal Instruments at IMDB
- Official UK Facebook page for the movie series
- Official UK Twitter page for the movie series


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I am pleased to work currently as an assistant producer for three 2D student-created games at the Guildhall at Southern Methodist University. Each team consists of four underclassmen and I. Revenge of the Dragon King is a game based on Journey to the West, one of Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The Dragon Ball manga is also based on the same novel. In Revenge of the Dragon King, players control the Dragon King in a side-scrolling "bullet-hell" game—a game where players must move about the screen in a cautious manner to avoid the bullets of enemies. Raging Sushi: Enter the Roll is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up in the same vein as The Simpsons Arcade Game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and X-Men arcade game where players move about the game screen in a pseudo-3D manner. Salvage Runner is a game that looks like Galaga in an asteroid field, controls like SkiFree, and plays like a "bullet-hell" game. In Salvage Runner, players try to dodge asteroids and debris while outrunning an oversized antagonist who constantly pursues the player.The underclassmen are working on their first games at the Guildhall. Therefore, some individuals have never before used source control. I would argue that source control is necessary for any project size.Ben Roye
Assistant Producer
Revenge of the Dragon King
Raging Sushi: Enter the Roll
Salvage Runner
For all three student games, the teams use Tortoise Subversion for source control. Below, I demonstrate an example of the Tortoise SVN tutorial from Salvage Runner's Asset Development Plan document. This tutorial explains how to use Tortoise SVN in detail since some people have never used any form of source control. After the tutorial, I follow up with an example of the importance of source control and then wrap up with final thoughts.
Connect to the Network Repository
Initial Check Out from the Network Repository into the Local Working Directory Repository
Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, states that SCM "is a set of activities designed to control change by identifying the work products that are likely to change, establishing relationships among them, defining mechanisms for managing different versions of these work products, controlling the changes imposed, and auditing and reporting on the changes made."
During the course of my studies at the Guildhall, I have had the opportunity to use Tortoise SVN and Perforce. Despite their differences, they both allow for software configuration management by controlling change in the project. Source control offers the prospect of controlling change by versioning items. It therefore becomes important to have a solid naming convention for files. The team should decide on a specific and unique naming convention for their game project. In the case of the three projects I currently produce, each team's specific naming convention resides in that team's Asset Development Plan document.
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McClellin Brings Youth To Bears 7/30/12
By: Scott Leber
Updated: August 20, 2012
"I love rushing the passer and getting after the quarterback, so I can't wait," said McClellin in a recent interview with WTVO.
McClellan had 20 and a half sacks in his career at Boise State. But corralling quarterbacks in the Mountain West Conference is a lot easier than getting to them in the NFL will be.
"I take pride in watching film and learning from the veterans too. That's what I plan on doing, learning from these older guys," said McClelliln.
If McClellin lives up to the Bear's expectations he'll be lining up along side guys who are perennial Pro Bowlers and future Hall of Famers....Urlacher, Peppers and Briggs. That's a little surreal at the moment for a 22 year old.
"Oh yeah definitely it is.
But I've got to put that past me and realize I'm here to help this team
do what I can," said McClellin.
Being a first round draft pick is great on draft day, but now McClellin has to live up to the high expectations.
"I don't know if I necessarily call it pressure, but you know I set myself goals, and I just work hard in practice to do the best that I can," said McClellin.


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Operating systems
IS&T recommends community members wait to migrate to Windows 8
October 31, 2012
IS&T is making Windows 8 Enterprise available for early adopters, but strongly recommends delaying the transition.
IS&T announces full support for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and higher
October 30, 2012
Introduces several new features and changes, including new Notes and Reminders applications and a security feature named Gatekeeper.
IS&T announces support for Apple iOS 6
September 21, 2012
Apple has released iOS 6. It's available as a free wireless update on a selection of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models.
IS&T now offers support for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
October 18, 2011
The latest Macintosh operating system offers many new features that enhance functionality for end users. Some of those enhancements change behaviors in Kerberos, wired DHCP and user navigation.
Kaashoek wins ACM's prize for young researchers
March 29, 2011
The professor of computer science, 45, is only the fourth recipient of the prize from the Association for Computing Machinery.
The next operating system
February 24, 2011
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.


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