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Localization
WSDM provides support for the localization of
web sites. For this purpose, WSDM introduces the concept of ‘locality’:
a particular place, situation, or location. Subsequently, the
different phases of the method were adapted to allow for the specification
of different localities. To take localization into account, the
mission statement should also answer the question: What are the
different target localities? The Audience Modeling was extended
with some extra sub phases to allow to describe the specific requirements
and characteristics of the different localities and to link the
localities to the audience classes. During Conceptual Design,
the locality requirements are taken into consideration and integrated
in rest of the design. In the Implementation Design, for each
locality a different Presentation Design may be needed and when
using an underlying database, the Logical Data Design should take
into consideration that for some tables and attributes more than
one version is needed. Although, the extension has been done for
WSDM, the principle of using localities as a starting point is
generally applicable and may therefore be used by other web site
design methods.
- 2004
- De Troyer, O., Casteleyn, S.: "Designing Localized Web Sites", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2004), pp. 547 - 558, Eds. Zhou, X., Su, S., Papazoglou, M.P., Orlowska, M.E., Jeffery, K.G., Publ. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-23894-8, Brisbane, Australia (2004)
[Acceptance Rate: 24%]
Other
Related Publications
- 2005
- Mushtaha, A. , De Troyer, O.: "Towards Localising e-Learning Websites", In International Journal for Localisation, pp. 06-09, ISBN 1649-2358, Limerick, Ireland (2005)
- 2004
- Stengers H., De Troyer, O., Baetens M., Boers F., Mushtaha, A. : "Localization of Web Sites: Is there still a need for it?", In International Workshop on Web Engineering (held in conjunction with the ACM HyperText 2004 Conference), Santa Cruz, USA (2004)
- Stengers H., Baetens M., Boers F., De Troyer, O.: "The World Wide Web as a Globalising Catalyst Consequences for Cross-Cultural Web Interface Design", In International Journal for Infonomics, e-Centre for Infonomics: London, v.1 January, pp. 22-37, ISBN 1742-4712 (2005)
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