- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:59:33 -0500 (EST)
- To: thesaurus <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi folks, On Friday I went to a workshop for the WWAAC project - http://80.60.189.118/wwaac/project/index.asp They are working on defining concepts and mapping those to symbols. These are used by people who commnicate with a number of graphic symbols, and some assitive technology, instead of writing. These people have a variety of disabilities. Their approach is to define a common set of concepts, and allow others to extend them. For example, "bus" and "person" are common concepts which the different tools enable, but "Charles McCathieNevile" or "the bus from my house to school" isn't, although users might have a particular semi-private symbol they use for this such as a photo of me, a special symbol or photo for the particular bus. They are using something similar to SKOS, and have been following the SKOS work - I hope that they will send us some notes on what doesn't work for their use cases out of what we provide (if anything), and be able to actually work directly with SKOS. They use more stuff, but we should at least be able to provide a basis for the things they are doing that are the same. One thing that struck me is that I am not sure if we have set up for the idea that a preferred term for a concept, in a particular vocabulary, might be represented by an image or multimedia object rather than a text term... Cheers Chaals Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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