LOTS - Localisation Technology Laboratory and Showcase

1 General

The use of the LOTS laboratory and the LOTS server are free of charge and non-profitable. As pointed out before, their aim is to facilitate learning and evaluation, providing a showcase of all the major software localisation tools currently used in the industry. Therefore, no user should, in any way, make use of these facilities to make a profit or any illegal activity.

Although the LOTS staff put every effort (administrative and technical) into ensuring the integrity of the donated software and the agreed use thereof, the honesty and good intentions of each user are presupposed. Consequently neither the LOTS nor ELECT staff will be responsible for any damage or misuse that may be caused, directly or indirectly, by the use of the LOTS facilities.

On a similar note, the LOTS staff reserve the right to terminate any individual’s access to the LOTS facilities, if they consider that he/she is breaking any of the fair use principles mentioned above.

2 Visit and Password Request

As stated previously, anyone wishing to visit the LOTS laboratory, run by the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at the University of Limerick, needs to schedule a meeting and explain his/her intended use. The LOTS staff will provide as much technical support as possible. A general password and user name will be provided to visitors. This password and username will be changed on a regular basis. Behaviour in the laboratory should comply with the current regulations set out by the University of Limerick, as well as the LOTS general policy for use.

3 Remote Access and Password request

Remote access users only need to request a password and username and explain their purposes to the LOTS staff. In general, each account will be activated for 5 working days. After that period, the LOTS staff may decide to keep it active for a longer period, provided that there are no more than 10 concurrent users. Users can request reactivation of their account at any time, which will be granted, as long as there is no special impediment.

In order to avoid slow speeds, there will be a maximum of 10 concurrent users at any time. Therefore, if the number of requests for an account is higher than 10, accounts will have to be scheduled accordingly.

The LOTS staff reserve the right to cancel any user account at any moment, without any previous consultation.

4 Sample files for testing

Sample files, like software, are donated to the LRC by various companies. These sample files are available on the desktop of each machine in the lab and on the LOTS server. Companies wishing to test their own files in the LOTS laboratory can do so, provided they bring a copy of the files with them.

If companies wish to test their own files while connected remotely to the LOTS server, they must first send their files to the LOTS staff. The files will be placed temporarily in a separate folder on the LOTS server and shared out to the company. When the company has finished testing, the files will be removed from the server.

5 Cancellation of access

As already mentioned, this service assumes a good will from every user. Any purpose other than learning, testing of evaluating any of the software applications available in LOTS is not permitted. Any misuse in/from/to the server will inmediatelly end disabling the user's account.