RE: Re[2]: SVG --> HTML/TXT for searching and accessibility

> Jim,
> 
> I did experimented with something like that. See
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/svgRdf/
> 
> although  this  text  is  quite full of smallish bugs, a way
> better  version should be on the svgopen conference pages as
> soon as they put the papers on-line.
> 
> I  would  love  if somebody picked that work up. The biggest
> problem is to define the correct RDF vocabulary, the rest is
> just some tricky xslt-ing...

The approach is good, although I'd present a different split,
which is probably difficult to do via a machine.

The predicates

IsConvergencePoint 
IsConnected 
PointsTo 
ExpandsTo 
Associated 

are on in the 'lines and curves and areas' domain of operation
(which the graphic artist works in).

the reader of the document does a mental translation of those into
things like 'face' 'house' 'process box' etc which are in a slightly
different domain.

Machine translation from one to the other is (probably) not automatable
today.

The approach is nice though, adding the rdf to an existing diagram without
screwing around with it. I didn't believe it realistic to insist on authors
drawing up documents to guidelines, hence followed the same approach, adding
data to the drawing for later extraction for alternative presentation.

regards DaveP






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