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3. Approaches for Web-Based Language Sustainability
In terms of technology, we have to support a communication model which
satisfies the following requirements. Firstly, the model should encourage
language users within a minority community. We expect that it will reinforce
the solidarity among the indigenous people, and make a positive cycle to use
their languages. But, we have to be very careful as a closed society is subject to
threaten creativity or diversity in communication, and in the end, it may lose
motivation to participate.
So, the communication model should be able to bridge their local community
and global world. Such mutual exchange could facilitate their linguistic,
cultural, and creative activities. The Korean pop entertainment is a good
example which has made huge achievements by such exchange.
As shown in Figure 1, we may have two separate systems for local and global
communities. Also, the local systems may be proprietary and incompatible
with the global systems. In that case, those could work for local community,
but cannot interact with the global systems.
Fig. 1. Web-based Minority Language Service Components
By any means, we have to develop how to exploit global systems for the both. As
an approach to support such a model, we need to design a gateway service between
local and global communities on the Web. It consists of 4 components, such as
directory of the minority users, interface localization, language translation, and
contents analysis. We emphasize that the main purpose of this approach is to
efficiently unite minority people while helping them play in the global space.
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