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The big picture lexicon of car parts
Under the direction of the Vienna Vocational School for Automotive Technology, an online picture dictionary is currently being created in which all the components of a modern automobile are depicted.
The big picture lexicon of car parts
The title of the Erasmus project, in which vocational students from Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Spain and Austria are taking part, is OPD (Online picture dictionary for the EU car mechanics). The Partnership for Innovation aimed to create a comprehensive online picture dictionary with several thousand images for vehicle mechanics in the EU. The project will be completed in December 2021 and is now available online www.carpictionary.eu available.
Competency in English
“The Car mechanics pictionary serves as a tool to improve skills and promote professional English skills,” explains project coordinator Alfred Czaker from the Siegfried Marcus Vocational School for Automotive Technology in Vienna. The picture dictionary serves the EU auto mechanic community as an easily accessible professional database of English terms, tool names, auto part names and system names, complemented by the corresponding illustrations. There is an enormous amount of organization and work behind the impressively detailed and clearly presented online lexicon. “After the work team was formed in September 2020, the tasks were distributed and the necessary work conditions, photo studio, software and scheduling, were created,” explains Czaker. For example, all components of the drive train and power transmission were dismantled into their individual parts, cleaned and photographed. The German name of the photographed components was translated into English, the photos were digitally post-processed and uploaded to the newly programmed platform.
EU-wide cooperation
Since it was not always possible to be present at school due to the Corona restrictions, a lot of work was done digitally. International online meetings took place every month to plan and coordinate the individual working groups in the participating countries. In June 2021, due to the falling number of infections, the project's first personal working meeting could take place in Vienna, to which all participants from Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain and Austria came. The project partners from Estonia and Vilnius took part in the meeting via online conference. The second meeting took place in October 2021 in A Coruna, Spain. The new project homepage was here www.carpictionary.eu unlocked for the first time. At the end of October of this year, project coordinator Alfred Czaker presented the project to the Vienna Regional Guild of Automotive Technology and then presented it at the directors' meeting of Austrian vehicle technicians and automotive technicians in Vienna's Siegfried Marcus vocational school.