Activities of Julia REDA related to 2018/2028(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on language equality in the digital age
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union has 24 official languages and more than 60 national and, regional and sign languages;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the availability of technological tools such as video games or educational applications in minority languages is pivotal for the development of language skills, especially in children;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes the effort and dedication of volunteer driven localisation and internationalisation efforts in open source software development; recommends to ensure that any funding scheme for HLT can both work with and can be accessed by the open source communities;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that languages with a smaller user base need proper support from a number of involved parties, including type foundries for diacritical marks, keyboard manufacturers and content management systems in order to properly store, process and display content in such languages; Requests the European Commission to assess how such support can be instigated and be made a recommendation in the procurement process within the EU;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recommends that the minimum language resources, as referred to in paragraph [10] should be made available and maintained as a public sector information, reuse of such resources needs to be possible for everyone; Requests the European Commission to refrain from the introduction of legislation in the field of copyright that would prevent researchers, individuals and any reuser from compiling or processing information; recommends that in order to preserve the written and spoken cultural heritage of lesser-used languages and those languages facing digital extinction and to encourage their reuse, faithful reproductions in full or in part of that work, regardless of the mode of reproduction and including digitisation, shall equally not be subject to copyright or related rights;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Highlights the importance of text and data mining techniques for the development of HLTs in areas such as speech to text recognition, machine translation and computational linguistics, considers that text and data mining techniques should therefore be made as widely available as possible, including for civil society organisations and businesses, following the principle “the right to read is the right to mine”;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls upon the European Commission to financially support the subtitling, dubbing and translation of video games and software applications into minority languages;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls upon the European Commission and Member States to financially support projects that develop, collect and promote best resources, including keyboard layouts, dictionaries, translation software and best practices for the use of languages facing the threat of digital extinction.