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134 Gerhard Budin5. OutlookOn the technological level a number of enabling technologies for global contentmanagement have emerged that are converging into Semantic Web technologies.Intelligent information agents are integrated into such systems. They arecombined with knowledge organisation systems (in particular multilingual ontologies).Semantic interoperability has also become a major field of research anddevelopment in this respect.In the field of the so-called content industry different business models havedeveloped that could not be more diverse: on the one hand open source and opencontent approaches are rapidly gaining momentum, also facilitated by maturingLinux-based applications. On the other hand national, regional and internationallegislation concerning intellectual property rights is becoming more and morestrict, and global players are buying substantial portions of cultural heritage fordigitisation and commercial exploitation that might eventually endanger the publicnature of cultural heritage.Epistemological issues of global content management will have to be addressed,as well as best practices to be studied in detail in order to develop advancedmethods for these complex management tasks. Managing cultural diversityin a dynamic market with rapidly changing consumer interests and preferences,with new technologies to be integrated, also requires a strategy for sustainableteaching and training initiatives (based on knowledge management teaching andtraining initiatives) in this fascinating field.In conclusion, it seems that strategies for multilingual learning content developmentfor E-Learning environments require a complex approach to modellinglearning processes, didactic knowledge organisation, ontology creation and multilingualresource support.ReferencesBudin, G. (2005) Strategies for Integrated Multilingual Content Development andTerminological Knowledge Management in Academic E-Learning Environments. InNistrup-Madsen Bodil (ed.) Proceedings of the Congress on Terminology and KnowledgeEngineering 2005, Copenhagen, 91–100.Budin, G. (2006) Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen integrierter Wissens- undLerntechnologien. In Mettinger, A., C. Zwiauer & P. Oberhuemer (eds.): E-Learning an derUniversität Wien. Forschung – Entwicklung – Einführung, Waxmann: Münster u.a., 43–56.Davenport, T. H. & L. Prusak (1998) Working Knowledge. How Organisations Manage What TheyKnow. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.Nonaka, I. and H. Takeuchi (1995) The Knowledge-Creating Company. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.Popper, K. (1972) Objective Knowledge. An Evolutionary Approach. London: Routledge.Tiwana, A. (2000) The Knowledge Management Toolkit. Practical Techniques for Building aKnowledge Management System. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.