COM3278 Deliverable 2 – Custom Markup Language Presentation Latest 2023

COM3278

Deliverable 2 – Custom Markup Language Presentation

Assignment Content

Create a presentation explaining how a custom markup language for documents might style digital content to provide better access to medical content.

Competency

Illustrate how markup languages can be used as a lingua franca.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

WHO’s multilingual web site, publications, and other resources help ensure that health information reaches the people who need it, as soon as they need it, in the languages they can understand.

Unfortunately, many WHO documents are not sufficiently multilingual, being produced and distributed in only the six official United Nations languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese.) Only a few dozen other languages are supported, as needed, by external partners.

The WHO website content is carefully selected to meet the needs of different readers and linguistic groups, but, due to financial constraints, technical content—including critical information for medical personnel — is only published in some of the six official languages. The 2008-2013 Strategic Plan was unable to resolve the language disparity.

This has left the WHO with two major issues:

Not all of the content is provided in sufficient quantity or timeliness to be effective, especially during health crises.

Many WHO publications exist only as PDF documents, making online access in other non-official languages problematic.

Instructions

The WHO recognizes that risk communication is one of the first and most important public health interventions in outbreaks, and the Director-General is increasingly concerned about potential global pandemics. You have been tasked, as the Eastern Hemisphere Communications Director of theInfectious Disease Task Force (IDTF), to prepare a summary PowerPoint presentation to the Executive Board of the UN’s World Health Assembly on how to most efficiently implement a pilot program to “provide instant online access to all of WHO’s content needed in a health crisis.”

The board is aware that documents need to be scanned to text and metadata added to allow multilingual searching of the entire collection, and the previous Strategic Plan suggested basing multi-language support on extensible markup language (XML).

Your presentation should focus on how markup languages, like HTML and XML, could be used in addition to or in collaboration with the main WHO website to provide instant access to training, prevention, and treatment information—in multiple languages—during a health crisis.

The WHO has secured the funds to provide regional centers with mobile devices and remote Internet access along with translation of several hundred thousand documents into another 25 significant languages, from Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish to Swahili, Berber, Hausa, Yoruba, Hindustani, Bengali, and Tamil.

What they need to understand is how markup languages—along with the metadata the translation services will provide—can allow health services to receive and distribute information digitally in the native languages of the communities they serve. If the pilot is successful, the WHO intends to expand the capability to at least 200 global languages.

Topics you are expected to cover in the PowerPoint are:

Summarize the history of markup from proofing to markup languages.

Compare markup language structure to human language structure.

Describe how markup can help categorize content.

Appraise the value of human physical, social, gestural, or psychological markup languages, like HUML, in teaching disease prevention or treatment.

Analyze what markup languages communicate.

Discuss how markup languages could be used to display content in a local (non-official) language.

Explain how XML can be used to mark up translations, rather than have the documents be saved in multiple, individual-language PDF documents.

To complete your assignment for the task force, you will need to create a PowerPoint presentation of at least 10 slides:

Introduction Slides (3 + slides):

The history of markup, from print to digital

How markup compares with human language structure (3+ slides):

How markup languages would be used to display local languages digitally on mobile devices instead of through printed (PDF) documents

Explanation of how extensions of XML (e.g., HUML, EML) might be used to augment the normally technical content of disease prevention or treatment

How markup languages are used to change and differentiate content, including (3+ slides):

how major topics/sections can be visually differentiated from content

how to include photos and videos in online documents

how the XML format can mark up copies of each document to provide content in different languages

A separate, last slide for a Summary and list of references (in APA format)