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focal.ie – 5 years old today
11 March 2011
focal.ie is celebrating its fifth birthday today. The site was launched on 10th March 2006. This resource was developed by Fiontar, DCU in collaboration with the Terminology Committee, Foras na Gaeilge. To date, the database contains over 320,000 terms, searchable under both English and Irish versions.
25 million searches
More than 880,000 unique visitors have used the website in the past five years. They have made 3.9 million visits and almost 25 million searches in that time.
According to a 2010 user survey carried out by Fiontar, the site is primarily used by translators and interpreters and by university students. 27% of searches are performed by those in the
19-25 age group. 79% of respondents use the website daily and for the most part the website is used to obtain the Irish versions of English terms (93%) and to check grammar and
spelling (78%).
The 10 most frequently searched terms over the past five years were: ‘experience’, ‘show’, ‘project’, ‘popular’, ‘record’, ‘report’, ‘art’, ‘important’, ‘change’ and ‘website’. The most frequently searched terms this week included: ‘cricket’, ‘pancake’, ‘lent’ and ‘Ash Wednesday’.
New resource – RSS feeds
RSS feeds are now available on the site. User of focal.ie can create a subscription (free of charge) to receive the ‘Term of the Day’ and news announcements instantaneously. These messages can be displayed online, on a desktop application or a mobile device. To subscribe, click on the RSS icon 
in the ‘Term of the Day’ and ‘Announcements’ boxes on the homepage.
Content for other websites
Widgets are now available on focal.ie for public use. If you have a website, you are welcome to use one or more of the widgets for the search box or ‘Term of the Day’ to link to focal.ie.
Graphics are available on the same page at http://www.focal.ie/Widgets.aspx.
Future developments
New resources are continuously being added to
this resource. Future developments in 2011 include launching a mobile version of the site and creating an e-newsletter to announce new content.
The focal.ie project is funded by Foras na Gaeilge.
focal.ie – 5 bliana ar an bhfód inniu
Tá focal.ie cúig bliana ar an bhfód inniu. Seoladh an suíomh ar 10 Márta 2006. Fiontar, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath i bpáirt leis an gCoiste Téarmaíochta, Foras na Gaeilge a chruthaigh an acmhainn seo. Faoin am seo tá os cionn 320,000 téarma sa bhunachar agus iad inchuardaigh faoi na leaganacha Gaeilge agus Béarla.
25 milliún cuardach
Bhain os cionn 880,000 cuairteoir uathúil leas as an suíomh le cúig bliana anuas. Thug na daoine sin 3.9 milliún cuairt ar an suíomh agus rinne siad beagnach 25 milliún cuardach lena linn sin.
De réir suirbhé úsáideoirí a rinne Fiontar in 2010, aistritheoirí agus ateangairí mar aon le mic léinn ollscoile is mó a bhaineann úsáid as an suíomh. Tá 27% de na cuardaigh á ndéanamh ag rannpháirtithe san aoisghrúpa 19-25. Úsáideann 79% de na rannpháirtithe an suíomh go laethúil agus is chun leaganacha Gaeilge de théarmaí Béarla a aimsiú (93%) agus chun litriú nó gramadach a sheiceáil (78%) is mó a bhaintear leas as an suíomh.
Ba iad na 10 dtéarma ba mhó cuardach le 5 bliana anuas: ‘experience’, ‘show’, ‘project’, ‘popular’, ‘record’, ‘report’, ‘art’, ‘important’, ‘change’ agus ‘website’. Ba iad na cinn ba mhó cuardach an tseachtain seo: ‘cricket’, ‘pancake’, ‘lent’ agus ‘Ash Wednesday’.
Acmhainn nua –Fothaí RSS
Tá fothaí RSS ar fáil ar an suíomh anois. Is féidir le húsáideoirí focal.ie síntiús (saor in aisce) a chruthú chun ‘Téarma an Lae’ agus na fógraí nuachta a fháil ar an toirt. Is féidir na teachtaireachtaí a fháil ar an idirlíon, ar fheidhmchlár ar dheasc ríomhaire pearsanta nó ar ghléas soghluaiste. Chun síntiús a chruthú, cliceáil ar na deilbhíní RSS sna bhoscaí ‘Téarma an Lae’ agus ‘Fógraí’ ar an leathanach baile.
Ábhar nua do shuíomhanna eile
Tá giuirléidí ar fáil ar focal.ie anois don phobal. Má tá suíomh idirlín de do chuid féin agat, tá fáilte romhat ceann nó breis de na giuirléidí don bhosca cuardaigh agus do ‘Théarma an Lae’ a chur air chun nasc a dhéanamh le focal.ie.
Tá graificí ar fáil ar an leathanach céanna ag http://www.focal.ie/Widgets.aspx.
Forbairtí eile le teacht
Tá forbairtí á gcur leis an suíomh luachmhar seo de réir a cheile. Le linn 2011 tá sé beartaithe leagan móibíleach den suíomh a chruthú agus nuachtlitir leictreonach a dháileadh chun ábhar nua a fhógairt.