MLIS wants multilingual networked services
The Multilingual Information Society (MLIS) Programme will shortly publish a call for proposals for the development and demonstration of multilingual networked services and resources. The pre-announcement of the call is available on the MLIS Programme's website. The call for proposals relates to Action Lines 1 and 2 of the MLIS programme and project proposals are invited in the following areas: - Provision of multilingual language resources over global networks; - Development of multilingual networked services. To support Europe's linguistic diversity in the information age, there is a need to ensure a balance between major languages and the languages used by smaller national or regional communities. Consortia are therefore encouraged to include regional and less-used languages in their proposals. More detailed descriptions of the areas are available from the MLIS website at: URL: http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/mlis/mlis-call.asp(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) The calls will be published in the Official Journal at the end of May or the beginning of June 1999. A central information day aimed at presenting the various issues and practicalities of the call to potential proposers is foreseen for June. For further information please access the above mentioned Web address.