The Localisation Research Centre: Building Bridges - Creating Impact

Editor's Notes

• #2: 29 April 2013
• #12: The design for the main entrance at the University of Limerick is the outcome of an open architectural competition sponsored by the University in 1996. The entrance comprises three elements; the landscape, the masts and the sculpture. The commission to build the new entrance is the outcome of an open archiectural competition sponsored by the University in 1996.A triangular lawn, approximately 150m wide by 150 deep banked by yew hedges makes the setting for the new entrance landscape. A long yew hedge on the South side of Plassey Park road forms the third side of this new space and completes the garden, enclosing the road. Two huge timber flag poles, 35m high and visible from Limerick City and from the Dublin road to Limerick, mark for the approaching visitor the gateway to the University campus.In the competition entry the Architects drew the stone monument of the landscape design of Geoffrey Jellicoe at Sutton Place with the Ben Nicholson white wall sculpture, and advised that the painter Sean Scully should be asked to make his proposal for a stone monument at Limerick University. Five years on and after much consideration, Sean Scully's sculpture entitled ‘CrannSoilse' was realised.The sculpture is made from 2'6" stone cubes, stacked 3 cubes wide by 4 cubes high and 40 cubes long. This amounts to a total of 480 stone cubes; 240 Chinese black basalt cubesand 240 Portuguese white moleanos limestone cubes, stacked in a chequerboard arrangement. The sculpture is assembled on a concrete base set within a low grass mound at the entrance to the University.  The project was completed in 2 stages; the masts in 1999 and the sculpture in 2003.
• #14: Silos: Research, Teaching, PracticeHorizon: Why it is done today – where do we want to go, what do we want to achieveParadigms: What is being done today – languages, contentApproaches: How it is done today – annual efficiency improvement: technologyGoogle for pictures: software engineer vs translator
• #17: Kevin Scannell, University of St LoiusMark Childress, SAP
• #18: Commercial, government, educational, and civil society sectors all require access to language services. While some of their requirements can be different, there are many overlaps. LRC X8, for the first time, will bring these four sectors together getting them out of their silos and opening up new horizons.
• #21: The Rosetta Foundation empowers language communities who provide access to information and knowledge across language boundaries, independent of economic, social, political, or geographical considerations. The Foundation supports their work fighting poverty, and working for better education, justice, health care and economic well-being in a variety of ways, among them through its AGIS Africa programme and its open source SOLAS project. SOLAS powers the Translation Commons, Trommons, the language services 'dating' site for nonmarket social translation and localisation. The Rosetta Foundation, a nonprofit organization registered as a charity in Ireland, is a University of Limerick campus company. It is directed by its elected board, and supported by its 30+ person strong Advisory Council of international experts in translation and localization. It empowers the work of thousands of volunteers providing language services to dozens of nonprofit communities.
• #27: No continuityNot doing what we have been doing for the past 25 years, just faster, cheaper, better. This triangle works for accountants, nor for visionaries