The International Children’s Digital Library: A Case Study in Designing for a Multilingual, Multicultural, Multigenerational Audience

Hutchinson, Hilary; Rose, Anne C.; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Weeks, Ann Carlson; Druin, Allison

doi:10.6017/ital.v24i1.3358

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“…To date, most of this work has been done through painstaking and costly human effort. For example, the Children's Digital Library has established a network of translators to carry out the task of metadata translation (Hutchinson et al, 2005). However, manual metadata records translation is not an option for many libraries and museums because of the tremendous time and cost involved.…”

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A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

Chen

Ding²,

Jiang³

et al. 2012

The Electronic Library

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Purpose of this paperThe purpose of this study is to evaluate freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records. Design/methodology/approachRandomly selected metadata records were translated from English into Chinese using Google, Bing, and SYSTRAN Machine Translation (MT) systems. These translations were then evaluated using a five point scale for both Fluency and Adequacy. Missing Count (words not translated) and Incorrect Count (words incorrectly translated) were also recorded. FindingsConcerning both Fluency and Adequacy, Google and Bing's translations of more than 70% of test data received scores equal to or greater than three, representative of 'non-native Chinese' and 'much coverage,' respectively. SYSTRAN scored lowest in both measures. However, these differences were not statistically significant. A Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated a strong relationship (r= .86) between Fluency and Adequacy. Missing Count and Incorrect Count strongly correlated with Fluency and Adequacy. Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted in a specific domain with a small sample size. It is necessary to conduct the evaluation with a larger, more representative test dataset. Also, other language pairs should be evaluated applying similar technologies. Originality/valueMost existing digital collections can be accessed in English alone. Few digital collections in the United States support multilingual information access (MLIA) that enables users of differing languages to search, browse, recognize and use information in the collections. Human translation is one solution, but it is neither time nor cost effective for most libraries. This study serves as a first step to understand the 2 performance of current MT systems and to design effective and efficient MLIA services for digital collections.

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A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

Chen

Ding²,

Jiang³

et al. 2012

The Electronic Library

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“…Localization is interface designed to be customized for a particular audience (Hutchinson et al, 2005). While OERs lend themselves to adaptation and repurposing, the localization of OERs within developing countries, where OERs could arguably make the greatest impact given the more acute learning materials access challenges teachers in such contexts face, has been less explored by the global OER community and less exploited in practice.…”

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Open Praxis, volume 8 issue 2

Gil‐Jaurena

2016

Open Praxis

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“…The LAOAP is designed predominantly for adult scholars, researchers and students with a concentrated community in Latin America. ICDL's primary audiences are children three to thirteen years of age and adults who study international children's literature or work with children (Hutchison et al, 2005). Scholars, researchers and adults are also attracted to this multilingual interactive DL.…”

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Collaboration and crowdsourcing

Budzise-Weaver

Chen

Mitchell

2012

The Electronic Library

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Purpose -This study aims to understand key features of existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and/or sustaining multilingual information access for digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach -A case study approach was applied to examine four American multilingual digital libraries: Project Gutenberg, Meeting of Frontiers, The International Children's Digital Library, and the Latin American Open Archives Portal. This examination used a framework derived from digital library evaluation practice. The missions, goals, funding, partners, users, collections, services, and technologies of these digital libraries were analyzed to present their key multilingual features . The collaboration and crowdsourcing characteristics were highlighted and discussed. Findings -These four multilingual libraries benefit substantially, both in the creation of the library and in its access, from the collaboration of groups domestic and international with different language expertise. For building the multilingual collection and services, some libraries involved both staff and users. For multilingual access to the collection, however, none of the libraries used machine translation or crosslanguage information retrieval technologies. Research limitations/implications -The four cases are all publicly available digital libraries in the United States. Their features may not be applicable to digital libraries in other countries or to commercial digital information services. Practical Implications -With the advancement of machine translation technologies and the wide application of social media, multilingual digital libraries may have even better opportunities to sustain their multilingual capabilities through crowdsourcing and the application of new technologies. Originality/value -This study summarizes the key features of four existing multilingual digital libraries. It provides insights into important factors for building successful multilingual digital libraries. The suggested strategies may help digital library developers to design appropriate multilingual information access services.

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The International Children’s Digital Library: A Case Study in Designing for a Multilingual, Multicultural, Multigenerational Audience

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

Open Praxis, volume 8 issue 2

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