African languages in a digital age : (Record no. 126266)
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| fixed length control field | 100927s2010 sa b 001 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2010503735 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0796922497 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780796922496 (pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | BTCTA |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | BTCTA |
| Modifying agency | YDXCP |
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| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | f------ |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PL8005 |
| Item number | .O83 2010 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 496.0285 |
| Edition number | 22 |
| 092 04 - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 496.0285 |
| Item number | O812 |
| Edition number | 21 |
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| Classification number | 04 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Osborn, Don. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | African languages in a digital age : |
| Remainder of title | challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Don Osborn. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cape Town : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | HSRC Press ; |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Ottawa : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | International Development Research Centre, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 150 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems.Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Also available online. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | African languages |
| General subdivision | Data processing. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computational linguistics |
| Geographic subdivision | Africa. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Human Sciences Research Council. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?cat=1&newtitles=1&freedownload=1&productid=2269">http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?cat=1&newtitles=1&freedownload=1&productid=2269</a> |
| 902 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT B, LDB (RLIN) | |
| No. of Items | 1 |
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| Cataloger | Eman |
| Reviser | Rev. |
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| Cataloger | Jamal |
| Reviser | Cat. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | المكتبة المركزبة الجديدة - جامعة القاهرة | قاعة الكتب - الدور الثاني | 11.02.2024 | 496.0285 O812 | 01000110195415000 | 23.09.2023 | C.1 | Books |