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The Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) is the organization responsible for ensuring compliance with the Charter of the French Language and promoting the use of French in all areas in Quebec. It ensures that businesses and organizations adhere to language standards, supports the francization of workplaces, and provides linguistic tools to facilitate the adoption of French.
The project aimed to create a new website for the linguistic showcase, including the Banque de dépannage linguistique (BDL) and the Grand dictionnaire terminologique (GDT). Thanks to our expertise in AWS and TYPO3, Toumoro has been selected as the provider for this project.
Beyond the need to modernize the website's design and make it responsive, the main challenge of the redesign was to rethink it according to its audience. Thus, the site moved away from an organizational chart-based presentation and shifted toward putting the user at the center of its strategy. The project is a success, and the work carried out by Toumoro fully meets the needs of the OQLF and its users.
The SOLR search engine proved to be a smart choice when integrated with the TYPO3 CMS. With SOLR, users benefit from a unified search module that allows simultaneous searches across the BDL and GDT, providing a quick overview of available information.
The use of SOLR’s faceted indexing enabled the creation of advanced filters such as query language, field of activity, theme, sub-search, update date, and a variety of data visualization and information enhancement options. Additionally, reviewers in TYPO3 gained access to a suite of integrated tools, streamlining their work on BDL content and the management of GDT entries.
Advanced features such as result suggestions, auto-complete, synonym recognition, syntax error handling, relevance optimization, combined sorting, sub-filter grouping, and filter result counts were all implemented to deliver an optimal user experience when interacting with the search engine.
Our approach is centered on co-creation. The various initial meetings helped establish the foundation and align visual needs. The Lean UX approach allowed for successive improvements based on feedback from the different stakeholders involved in the work cycles.
Consequently, the final product is the result of a collective effort from our design team members and representatives of the OQLF. Toumoro was thus able to achieve its goals in terms of efficiency and creativity for the visual aspects of the project.
As an AWS partner, this hosting choice was obvious. The backend of TYPO3 is replicated across a set of EC2 servers managed in container form. This approach reduces costs when the site is heavily used, as their increase is minimal compared to the system's capacity to support much larger usage than initially anticipated. All files necessary for the site’s display or integrated into its content are stored on the S3 system. The complete infrastructure utilizes more than fifteen AWS services, including EC2, S3, ECS, ALB, Route 53, ECR, etc., in a TYPO3 cloud solution developed by certified experts at Toumoro.
