- From: Liddy Nevile <Liddy.Nevile@motile.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:08:31 +1100
- To: DCMI Group <DC-ACCESSIBILITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
- Cc: ozewai@ozewai.org, DC-anz@dc-anz.org, DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Metadata for Accessibility In order to make it possible for more Europeans to attend the proposed summit, we have postponed it until later in the original week in the hope that people traveling to Spain, or otherwise, can join us. I urge you to do so if you are concerned about metadata with relation to user profiles or resource/services, and how they are matched up. Liddy ps - attached below is the original invitation: Invitation to Accessibility Metadata Summit Metadata for Accessibility IMS Global Learning Consortium is hosting an international collaborative effort to determine specifications for accessibility metadata to match their publicly released AccessForAll user profile (http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/index.cfm). IMS is soliciting input from parties who have an interest in accessibility and metadata. Work has been underway for some months and has led to a draft proposal for presentation at an Accessibility Metadata Summit to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on Monday February 9th, 2004 where questions and comments will be welcomed. Exact location of summit TBD. Participation is by invitation and registration is required (there is no registration fee). To request an invitation and register: email your name, contact information and email address to Toni Roberts at aroberts@nbnet.nb.ca prior to February 2, 2004. Synopsis of Context IMS has developed a user profile that describes user preferences regarding display, control and content. Currently this work is being followed by a collaborative effort to develop metadata specifications for resources and services to match such preference descriptions. The success of this effort will be partly in its interoperability, consequently various metadata standards groups are working together on this effort. Currently, W3C, DCMI, IMS, CEN-ISSS WS-LT, AGLS, EuroAccessibility and other groups have participated. The Summit will provide a special opportunity for these groups and others to come together to present their work and consider the interoperability and utility of the collaborative team's current proposals. Participation is open and free but participants are asked to register in advance. Summit participants who are interested in further work in the collaboration may extend their participation to include attending the two-day Working Group meeting that will immediately follow the Summit. The Summit program will be posted closer to the event but it is expected that there will be a detailed explanation of both the ACCLIP (the user profile) and the draft ACCMD (the resource/ service metadata model), and presentation of some proposed implementations within the various metadata standards such as the IMS metadata framework, Dublin Core metadata, etc. Participants will be offered scheduled time to present their work and there will be a substantial discussion period. For further information, contact the Accessibility Metadata Working Group Co-Chairs: Jutta Treviranus (jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca) and Toni Roberts (aroberts@nbnet.nb.ca)
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