TheXerox Research Centre
Europe (XRCE)is co-ordinating a project
funded by theEuropean
Unionthat will improve the waymultilingual content can be
accessed.
The centre, based in Grenoble, France, is developing technology
that can make it easier to access, understand and navigate
multilingual textual content in digital libraries and online public
access catalogues
(OPACs).
The European Union-backed
CACAO (Cross language Access
to Catalogues And Online libraries) is a consortium which
comprises European academic and industrial research institutions as
well as libraries. It is sponsoring the XRCE's work.
Monica Beltrametti, vice president and director of XRCE, said,
"We are glad that CACAO gives us the opportunity to apply some of
our Smarter Document Management SM technologies to support Europe's
knowledge-based economy."