today, I proudly present my latest web project: http://eutopics.eu.

EUtopics is a terminology driven, multilingual, multisource Search Mashup for information about Europe and the EU. Without even entering a single word, users simultanously access EU-related information, like legal documents EurLex, cultural ressources from Europeana oder Webpages, News, Images, Videos provided by the Bing Search API.

EUtopics uses the EuroVoc thesaurus. EuroVoc is the standard terminology which is used by officials to categorize all EU-related information. On eutopics.eu webpage, EuroVoc is interactively browseable in all official 23 EU-languages.  A simple click on any of the thesaurus terms immediately triggers a search query on EUs largest information sources. Within seconds, users can access the query results, comment on them and rate quality, design and other properties. Searches can be refined by simply clicking on automatically extracted words and tags from titles or other contents of the search results.

With EUtopics users can use their mother language to find information about EU-topics (sic!). At the same time these users use „their language“ – the language of EU-technocrats to find relevant information. At the same time again, users can use their mother language to access information about EU-Themes in different languages and from different countries. In this way we get deep imnsights also on EU-topics which -until then- may be relevant only to our neighbours.

Please give it a try at: http://eutopics.eu

Your feedback is very welcome!