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Looking closer, the first one, directory service helps the indigenous people
find out their colleagues or relevant contents with ease. It needs to maintain a
directory for each web activity such as blogging and social media. Eventually,
it acts as a contact point for someone to get into their local community.
Two screen shots of Figure 2 show a simple case which is developed by
Dr. Kevin Scannell at St. Louise University in America. The site is named
indigenoustwitters.com. The left one shows a list of indigenous languages he
found from the Twitter. And, the right one shows a list of active users in a
specific language. So, you can easily find who stars in your language Twitter,
and get into your community.
Fig. 2. Web-based Minority Language Support Example: indigenoustwitters.com.
Next, we need to localize some major applications such as Google, YouTube,
and Twitter. Mostly, menus, popup messages, and on-line help are major
targets to localize. For instance, Google is running the Google Technology User
Group (GTUG) which officially supports language problem of each country.
In another way, we can personally contribute to the localization through the
Google In Your Language service. For example, we can put into the system a set
of localized messages. The language translation is strongly required to interact
with global community. It should automatically translate user’s texts into a
common language such as Russian or English.
In case of Google, they provide a general translation service for about 50
languages. They also provide open translation APIs which can be employed by
another application. In the above mentioned example users’ twits are translated
in Twitter by the Google APIs (it is also a typical example of component
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