Multilingual websites in Hungary Gabriella Szalóki Egy előadás könnyen vitára ösztönözheti a hallgatóságot. A PowerPoint bemutatók használatával azonban megfelelő mederbe terelheti a hozzászólásokat. Vetítés közben nyomja le a jobb oldali egérgombot Válassza a Jegyzőkönyvvezetőt Válassza a Műveletek lapot Gépelje be a hozzászólásokat az elhangzás sorrendjében Az OK gombbal a panel kikapcsolható A vetítés végén önműködően létrejön egy Műveletek című kocka, ami a beírt hozzászólásokat tartalmazza.

Population in Hungary 10 millions inhabitants inhabitants ► 97% Hungarians ► 3% minorities 13 different nationalities 13 different nationalities 5 million Hungarians in different countries

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)

Languages spoken in the EU ► As ► As mother tongue or as foreign language

The survey 2004 ► May - compile a questionnaire - test in 4 institutions - test in 4 institutions ► June - July - set up a Hungarian MINERVA website - set up a Hungarian MINERVA website with the online questionnaire with the online questionnaire - send out the request letters - send out the request letters ► August-September - close the data collection - close the data collection - start the analysis - start the analysis

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

Participation 2

40 registered Websites 24 are available in English

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 - 3rd language is usually German - 4th language is French, or minority languages (Slovakian) - 4th language is French, or minority languages (Slovakian) ► Libraries are far ahead of other institutions in multilingualilism

Information retrieval

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

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

Best practices ► Fine arts in Hungary ► Hungarian National Archive

Thank you! Gabriella Szalóki