COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) Theme 5 - Multilingual web ICT PSP call identifier: CIP-ICT-PSP-2009-3 ICT PSP Theme/objective identifier: 5.2: Multilingual Web content management: standards and best practices Grant agreement for: THEMATIC NETWORK Annex I - “Description of Work” Project acronym: MultilingualWeb Project full title: Advancing the Multilingual Web, Thematic Network Grant agreement no.: 250500 Date of preparation of Annex I (Version 2): 26 October 2009 Date of approval of Annex I by Commission: (to be completed by Commission) Date of start of the project: 1 st January 2010 Name of the Network coordinator: Richard Ishida W3C – The World Wide Web Consortium e-mail: [email protected] Tél:+ 1 6173951127 Name of the administrative and financial coordinator: Céline Bitoune GEIE ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) e-mail: [email protected] Tél: +33 4 92385077 Version 3 (26/10/2009) Page 1 of 62 Table of Contents PART A of Annex I – Project Summary and budget breakdown .............................................. 4 A1. Project summary form (copy of A1 form of the GPFs) .................................................. 4 A2. List of beneficiaries ......................................................................................................... 5 Shortname corrected to match with those entered into NEF.................................................. 5 A3. Budget breakdown form (copy of A3.1 form of the GPFs) ............................................ 6 PART B of Annex I.................................................................................................................... 8 Project Profile......................................................................................................................... 8 B1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES ......................................................... 10 B1.1. Project objectives.................................................................................................... 10 Project background............................................................................................................... 10 Project objectives ................................................................................................................. 10 B1.2. EU and national dimension..................................................................................... 11 B2. IMPACT ........................................................................................................................ 14 B2.1. Expected impact and outcomes .............................................................................. 14 B2.2. Long term viability ................................................................................................. 16 B2.3. Availability of common results, consensus building, openness, sustainability...... 17 B3. IMPLEMENTATION ................................................................................................... 19 B 3.1. Consortium and key personnel .............................................................................. 19 1: ERCIM/W3C................................................................................................................ 21 2: Bioloom Group............................................................................................................. 21 3: CNR-ILC (I)................................................................................................................. 22 4: Facebook Ireland,......................................................................................................... 22 5: The University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Potsdam .................................................. 23 6: Institut Josef Stefan (JSI) ............................................................................................. 23 7: Institutul de Cercetari pentru Intelegentia Articificiala (ICIA).................................... 24 8: The Language Technology Centre ............................................................................... 24 9: Lionbridge Belgium ..................................................................................................... 24 10: Microsoft Ireland........................................................................................................ 25 11: Opera Software........................................................................................................... 26 12: SAP AG...................................................................................................................... 26 13: The Translation Automation User Society (TAUS)................................................... 26 14: AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO........................................................................ 26 15: University of Oviedo (ILTO) ..................................................................................... 27 16: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM................................................................. 27 17: The Language Resource Centre ................................................................................. 28 18: University of Economics, Prague............................................................................... 28 19: Transware Ltd (WeLocalize) ..................................................................................... 28 20: XML-INTL ................................................................................................................ 29 The European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation .................................. 30 The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) ............................................... 30 B3.2a. Chosen approach................................................................................................... 31 i) Workshops................................................................................................................ 31 ii) Associated ‘practical work items’............................................................................ 31 iii) Risk analysis and contingency plan ..................................................................... 34 B3.2b. Work plan ............................................................................................................. 36 i) GANTT CHART...................................................................................................... 36 ii) Performance Monitoring Table to show success indicators..................................... 37 Version 3 (26/10/2009) Page 2 of 62 Notes: ............................................................................................................................... 37 iii) Workplan Tables tabular descriptions (registered online using NEF) ................. 38 WT 1: Work package list: ................................................................................................ 38 WT2: Deliverables list ..................................................................................................... 39 WT3: Work package descriptions WP01...................................................................... 41 WT3: Work package descriptions WP02...................................................................... 44 WT3: Work package descriptions WP03...................................................................... 47 WT3: Work package descriptions WP04...................................................................... 50 WT3: Work package descriptions WP05...................................................................... 53 WT4 –List of Milestones n/a......................................................................................... 56 WT5: List of Tentative Reviews ...................................................................................... 56 WT6: Summary effort table ............................................................................................. 57 B3.3. Project management ............................................................................................... 58 B3.4. Dissemination / Use of results ................................................................................ 60 B3.5. Resources to be committed..................................................................................... 61 Version 3 (26/10/2009) Page 3 of 62 PART A of Annex I – Project Summary and budget breakdown Part A of Annex I is comprised of the following sections, which are generated automatically by the NEF online tool from the information provided in the GPFs: A1. Project summary form (copy of A1 form of the GPFs) Version 3 (26/10/2009) Page 4 of 62 A2. List of beneficiaries Shortname corrected to match with those entered into NEF List of participants: Participant no. Participant organisation name Participant short Country name 1 (Co-ordinator) GEIE ERCIM ERCIM/W3C France 2 (Participant) Bioloom Group Bioloom Germany 3 (Participant) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR Italy 4 (Participant) Facebook Ireland Facebook Ireland 5 (Participant) Fachhochschule Potsdam UAS Potsdam Germany 6 (Participant) Institut Jozef Stefan IJS Slovenia 7 (Participant) Institutul de Cercetari Pentru Inteligentia ICIA Romania Artificiala 8 (Participant) Language Technology Centre Ltd. LTC UK 9 (Participant) Lionbridge Belgium Lionbridge Belgium 10 (Participant) Microsoft Ireland Research Microsoft Ireland 11 (Participant) Opera Software ASA Opera Norway 12 (Participant) SAP