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Andreas Ravn

Andreas Ravn
Senior Software Engineer, namics

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Since 1995, Andreas Ravn works as a software engineer, focussing on different types of communication software. Since 2001, he works for namics, a swiss internet company, in different countries. Multilingualism being a natural issue for the Swiss, and the problem becoming even more interesting in the context of Web2.0 sites with user generated content, he has dealt with this topic in a number of projects.

Sessions

9:00 Wednesday, 22-10-2008
Parlez-vous Zweinull, Señor? Providing Cross-National and Multilingual Web Communities
Presentation: Parlez-vous Zweinull, Señor? Providing Cross-National and Multilingual Web Communities Presentation [PDF]
Marketing & Community
 Location: B8-9
Andreas Ravn (namics)
Web communities may overcome barriers of nations and language. When planning or operating a web community to be used by people in different countries or speaking different languages, a lot of issues arise: How do multilanguage user comments co-exist? How do search and tagging work in a multilingual context? Do we separate the countries? We will discuss these problems and give decision support. Read more.