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Publication : a strategy for discoverability

OBDILCI just published Une stratégie réussie de découvrabilité en contenu scientifique, sans recours aux services SEO, 3/2025 Success story of a discoverability strategy in the scientific field, focused on a limited number of keywords, developed from a convergent bundle of…

New section in “other projects”: studies on web multilingualism

OBDILCI is pleased to announce a new series of studies about the state of multilingualism of the Internet, sustained by data from Dataprovider.com. Their database gathers over 200 parameters about web sites, covering nearly the entire WWW ecosystem (800+ million…

Interview to D. Pimienta in UNESCO Chair for Linguistic Policies for Multilingualism platform

Interview made by Simone Schwambach and Camila Muniz on the theme of Geopolitics of multilingualism in the digital world, in Spanish.

A gift to diversity for starting new year 2025

A gift to diversity for starting new year 2025 We have installed in all our webpages the possibility to use automatic translation via GoogleTranslate thru a selection at the right side of the menu screen. As of today, Google Translate…

V5.2: New version of model, November 2024

The model has made a new run from ITU data updates. ITU changed the percentage of individuals connected to the Internet for 62 countries, using sources provided by the countries. The changes concerned only one African country (Malawi), making a…

An exhaustive study of existing methods to measure languages online and more evidences that English around 25%

COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MEASURE PROPORTION OF LANGUAGES ON LINE AND HISTORICAL FLASHBACK So far, five different approaches have been identified of companies, universities or civil society organizations offering, as of today, figures about language’s proportion online. This study…

An alternative history of the Internet from a language perspective

Here are two short videos that survey the history of the Internet, from the perspective of languages, and with an alternative vision to the official discourse. They are two elements of a complete course of which we have just completed…

A peer-review publication says English domination on the Web a half-truth

An important milestone for OBDILCI: our article “Is it True that More Than Half of Web Contents are in English? Not If Multilingualism is Paid Due Attention!” has finally been published in the peer-reviewed Forum for Linguistic Studies. We wish…

The (fourth) digital dimension of the Instituto Cervantes yearbook 2024 “Spanish in the world”.

In the context of Spain’s formidable investment in the cross-cutting themes of artificial intelligence and language [1] one awaited with great interest the annual release of the Cervantes Institute yearbook to learn about the first impact of these plans on…

DLD Project

DLD (Digital Language Death), a project entirely based on solidarity, is finally entering its development phase, thanks to 3 voluntaries joining the partnership. It’s about the systematic evaluation of the potential risks for all languages to be left aside in…