Re: ISO, Coga and module two

On 26/08/2021 12:33, John Foliot wrote:
> Hi Lisa,
> 
> I think there is an important 'third' component that you may be missing 
> here, and that is where and how the metadata is rendered and used.

Ah, thanks John. I also added a note to the google doc requesting this 
contextual information and also the broader use case :)

Steve

> 
> Our Personalization work is focused on applying metadata at the *element 
> level*, which has been attempted before (Microdata, microformats, RDFa, 
> etc), but ours is a newer, (and I believe simpler) approach. But our 
> work seeks to leverage the metadata for 'transformative' purposes (i.e. 
> the more I know about 'foo', the more I can manipulate 'foo' - 
> mechanically or manually - to meet my personal needs).
> 
> However there is also the more traditional, document-level metadata, 
> which for me is more about discovery - finding the web documents [sic] 
> that addresses my needs. In that area, the excellent work that Benetch 
> has done with Schema.org <https://schema.org/> is the shining example 
> (as it integrates seamlessly with ePub), although Dublin Core 
> <https://www.dublincore.org/groups/access/standards/> has done some 
> critical work in this area as well (also works in ePub), and there are 
> other efforts that I am peripherally aware of such as the IMS Global 
> Learning Consortium's Access For All specification 
> (http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/ 
> <http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/>), and the work of the 
> Accessibility Metadata Project (http://www.a11ymetadata.org/ 
> <http://www.a11ymetadata.org/about/>)
> 
> (I'll note that multiple schemas has both a positive and negative impact 
> - I personally waffle back and forth on that).
> 
> Not sure if or how much of this would be important in the current 
> discussion with ISO - I'm curious to better understand their ultimate 
> goal here.
> 
> JF
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 5:47 AM Lisa Seeman <lisa1seeman@gmail.com 
> <mailto:lisa1seeman@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Folks
> 
>     ISO approached me about metadata support for COGA. This is really
>     supported by module 2 
>     (seehttps://w3c.github.io/personalization-semantics/help/
>     <https://w3c.github.io/personalization-semantics/help/> ). However
>     as this is a very early draft I though some more clarity, review of
>     cogas later works etc, would be a good idea.
> 
>     To help this along I have made a draft at docs.google.com
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDPA3R1Y4hVn4Eq9NlRTZ_hg4cpd_8ZtpWoFiVuF_lk/edit?usp=sharing> 
>     of items that could be supported in content or alternative versions.
> 
>     Other collections:
>     https://github.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/wiki/User-needs-collections
>     <https://github.com/w3c/personalization-semantics/wiki/User-needs-collections>
>     such as https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility
>     <https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility>
> 
> 
> 
>     All the best
> 
> 
>     lisa
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> *John Foliot* |
> Senior Industry Specialist, Digital Accessibility |
> W3C Accessibility Standards Contributor |
> 
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