For a list of sources in international technical communication and related topics that are in print, go to the Bibliography: Sources in International Technical Communication.

International Interest

Controlled Language

• Global English, a thorough introduction, by Rita Raley of UC Santa Barbara, to what it is with bibliographic information and links to many helpful resources.
• ASSET: A simplified English, complete interactive dictionary/thesaurus for Windows.
• Controlled Languages Homepage, exhaustive site of information on controlled languages
• Controlled Language Tools
• Simplified English for Aircraft Workcards. A research project that is one of the few to evaluate usability issues as they relate to simplified (sometime called controlled) English. Excellent paper.
• AECMA Simplified English Guide, published by the Air Transport Association. One of the few collections of Simplified English that you can buy. Although this lexicon contains terminology for the aviation industry, it is still a very useful and excellent example of a working lexicon for controlled English.

Culture

• Armchair World: The Well Informed Traveler, a good collection of links for those who travel around the world and who want to learn more about their target destinations before they arrive (a very good idea!).
• Cross-Cultural Communication, overheads from a course taught by Dr. J. E. Beer of the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.
• "Beyond Language: Cultural Predispositions in Business Correspondence," a paper by Dr. Charles P. Campbell of the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology.
• The Library of Congress's Country Handbooks. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
• Cultures and Beliefs, a short but useful list of links to learn about belief systems and cultures throughout the world.
• Databank of Cross-Cultural Emotions, "an initiative to set up a searchable collection of datasets containing data derived from cross-cultural research on emotions. Datasets will be made available by downloading and can be found by emotion-categories and countries. Also, researchers can place new or updated datasets at the Emotion Databank for scientific re-use."
• "On the Role of Assumptions in Intercultural Research and Consulting: Examining the Interplay of Culture and Conflict at Work," a paper by Dr. Gillian P.S. Khoo at the Pacific Region Forum, 10 November 1994.
• Intercultural Communication, a short paper about language, cultural values, and bridging cultural differences by Donnell King.
• Intercultural Communication, a collection of links gathered by Ken Pennington for his International Affairs class.
• Latin American Network Information Center, seemingly exhaustive resource for all sorts of information about Latin America. A five-star information resource!
• Intercultural Studies Websites, a wonderful collection of links to Web sites pertaining to language and culture.
• Getting Through Customs, providing information on global business practices, cognitive styles, cultural overviews, medical & political information, contacts, religious & societal influences on business protocol, Cultural I.Q. Quizzes, and more for international travelers.
• Intercultural Communication, a Web site resulting from Néstor G. Trillo's graduate school research in intercultural communication at the University of Hawaii. This is a terrific resource.
• Intercultural Email Connections, a wonderful effort to "help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges."
• Culturelink, the Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development.
• Intercultural Communication, a large and diverse collection of links by the American Communication Association.
• Flags of the world and other kinds of flags. A visual tale.
• Intercultural Press Home Page. My favorite publisher on topics related to intercultural communication.
• The Web of Culture, a wonderful site with a seemingly exhaustive database of practical cultural and travel information.
• The Culture of the Internet and Usenet
• Anthropology Internet Resources
• Nonverbal Behavior, Nonverbal Communication Links
• De Proverbio, an electronic journal of international proverb studies. Fascinating!
• International Study and Travel Center, an excellent and helpful effort by students at the University of Minnesota.
• CIA Publications. Includes the CIA World Factbook. Fabulous resource. Includes all sorts of information on probably every country in the world. Light on cultural information though.
• Country Reports. Useful list of links that you might consult if you travel internationally.
• Craighead Publications. Publisher of excellent reports that prepare you to live and do business in many countries around the world. Assumes that you are US American and are interested in relocating.
• The Lonely Planet Destinations Guide, worldwide travel, event, and cultural information
• The Embassy Page, an extremely useful site with links to embassies and consulates worldwide!

English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources

• Global Issues: Web Resources, a wonderful collection of links that includes a specific section on ESL and EFL links.
• The English as a Second Language Site
• Dave's ESL Cafe
• English Grammar Resources
• The Exchange: Learning English Language Culture

Miscellany

• Cheat Sheet for Travelers, a favorite of mine that I use when I travel overseas and need a cheat sheet for figuring out currency equivalents. Excellent resource!
• The Edge, the E-Journal of Intercultural Relations.
• Global Book Awards Winners, a program originated by the Financial Times and Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
• UNESCO Publications page. Some excellent and hard-to-find research.
• State of the World Forum, an important non-profit, global organization that seeks to contribute to the fashioning of our common future by developing concrete initiatives that address fundamental human needs.
• Overseas Travel Information, a short list of links to Web sites for people who travel internationally.
• US Council for International Business. Several links to useful sites, particularly the International Chamber of Commerce.
• International Trade and Business Bookstore, by the US Department of Commerce.
• International Herald Tribune. A great English-language newspaper about international news.
• Electronic Fieldtrip to the United Nations. Fun and very informative.
• Resources on Communication and Community: A Komei Bibliography. Excellent bibliography and related hyperlinks on topics ranging from business communication to international business communication and intercultural communication.
• The European Journalism Page, great list for keeping current with European news.
• Global Links. A collection of news-related links organized by country.
• Global Management Forum, a bulletin-board interface to a useful discussion on various issues related to global management.
• Technical Writers of India (TWIN).
• Foreign Languages for Travelers. Excellent Web site for learning a foreign language! Includes sound files, excellent use of CGI capabilities, and more. I highly recommend this!
• UK and US English. A fun Web site entitled "What a load of codswallop, pet!" that addresses words that could be confusing and embarrassing in the UK & US.
• The International Business List. An excellent resource and available in at least twelve languages.
• Global Intranets, an article from Intranet World entitled "Injecting Order into Anarchistic Global Intranets," by Robert E. Calem.
• The Internationalist. A plethora of information, including books, directories, reports, and maps.
• Mass Media in Specific Countries and Regions, an interesting, albeit small, collection of links related to mass media.
• Localisation Resources Centre. This is an excellent resource. They even publish a magazine and offer scholarships to people doing research on localization.
• The Global Emerging Markets Database, offers comprehensive business information on many emerging markets. Sponsored by the International Business Center, Katz Graduate School of Business, at the University of Pittsburgh.
• International Marketing Resources
• Graphics in International Technical Communication

Multilingualism on the Web

• NYU Multilingual Web, providing links to worldwide multilingual computing resources on the Internet, gives an overview of the technical issues, offers tools for browsing and publishing on the Web in dozens of languages.
• Using Multiple Languages in HTML, sample pages for various character sets.
• EU Project "Web4Groups", a web-based group-cooperation tool, designed to support discussions and project cooperation via the Internet. This link goes to an thorough listing of Web sites about multilingualism and the Web.
• RFC 2070 - Internationalization of HTML
• W3C Internationalization and Localization
• Internationalisation of HTML
• On the Multilingual Normalization of the Web
• Babel: Internationalization of the Internet
• Alis Technologies Inc., produces a fine multilingual browser and has some good resources for multilingualism on the Web
• Accent Software Int'l - language solutions for the Internet
• Website Translation: A Primer for Webmasters, Authors, and Owners
• WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism)
• Internationalization and Localization issues regarding the World Wide Web

Organizations and Special Interest Groups

• European Union's Information Society Project Office, keeps you up-to-date on IT developments in the European Union.
• Japan Center for Intercultural Communications
• Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research, sponsored by the University of Southern California. Rich collection of education-related links.
• American Society for International Law, in a global market, international law is important to understand.
• The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). "The aims of the Association are to facilitate communication among persons interested in cross-cultural psychology and to examine more effectively the universal validity of psychological theories in all branches of psychology and related disciplines."
• STC's International Technical Communication Special Interest Group
• Silicon Valley Localization Forum
• Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Home Page
• Organizations throughout the world for technical writers
• FORUM 95 Homepage, a conference on international technical communication
• International Organization for Standardization
• American Translators Association
• International Federation of Translators
• World Trade Centers Association

Software Localization

• Alteris's Links for Software Internationalization and Engineering. Good list! See also their page of links for translation and localization tools.
• Netscape Internationalization: Papers and Presentations by Netscape International Engineers. A bit dated, but useful nonetheless.
• Internationalization, from a Java perspective, from Sun Microsystems.
• IT Industry Source for Localization. An assortment of useful interviews and articles related to IT and software localization.
• Localization 101. A useful primer on localization for the software industry.
• Unicode and internationalization resources. A number of resources pertaining to Unicode and Internationalization.
• Internationalization Links, mostly concerning software but with some surprises.
• Multilingual User Interface Software to prepare, view and print documents in all the Indian languages as well as some world languages.
• Localization and the Development Process, an article by Jim Paulsen of International Access/ability Corporation.
• Localization Made Simple: A Brief Overview, an article by Susan Chester Paulsen of International Access/ability Corporation.
• Unicode Home Page
• Software Localization Project Management
• The Multilingual PC Directory
• Computer News Middle East
• Internationalization of [Software] Applications
• GNU C Library: Locales and Internationalization
• GNU C Library: Extended Characters
• How to Internationalize
• Right to Left: Software Localization Strategies
• Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Localization

Standards and Standards Bodies

• NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards. Offers an interface for learning about global standards.
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU), playing a larger and larger role in the lives of Web users.
• Member Bodies of ISO, an alphabetical list of member countries and the contact information for their standards organizations.
• Information on The Standard Generalized Markup Language. Provide both a one-page overview of SGML and lots of detailed information if you are interested.
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• European Commission Home Page

Translation and Linguistics

• The LOGOS dictionary, a comprehensive dictionary of 7,580,560 entries (total for all languages). See also the online version of the magazine Language Today, which is also located at the Logos Web site.
• Articles about Translation by several professional translators. Some topics include "Translation as a Profession," "What Does a Translator Do All Day?," and "When West Edits East."
• A Web of Online Dictionaries. Contains links to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 different languages.
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries. Seemingly exhaustive collection of dictionaries.
• Web Resources for Translators sponsored by the Institute of Translation and Interpretation. Lots of links to all sorts of dictionaries.
• Ethnologue, the thirteenth edition, edited by Barbara F. Grimes. Exhausting resource! "The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names."
• Translation Research Group. Translation, Theory and Technology (TTT.org) is maintained by the Translation Research Group of Brigham Young University's Department of Linguistics, which includes TESOL. Excellent resource.
• Publications for Translators, by Schreiber Publishing. They publish The Translator's Handbook.
• Language Links, an extraordinary collection of links about language--so many that Polyglot had to continue the listing on a second Web page. Organized alphabetically by language. Also has links to multilingual resources, linguistics sites, and so on.
• Translation Links. Good list of resources if you are managing translation or if you are a translator. Includes links to mailing lists and discussion groups, plus companies that develop translation software.
• Terminology Resources on the WWW. Wow! Excellent resource for translators.
• Terminology Forum Home Page. Another exhaustive resource for multilingual professionals who are interested in terminology.
• Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide
• Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
• Translators Home Companion
• NetGlos, the Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology
• LANTRA-L Information (listserver for translation and interpretation)
• The Human-Languages Page
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
• Linguistics and Language Fun. Yes, it really is fun.