- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:24:02 -0500
- To: www-multimodal@w3.org
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Sorry this comment is so late; I ran aground after rushing to get earlier comments in by the deadline and this one was left in the cognitive but not email-text buffer. Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-InkML-20061023/ For example, in particular consider the time origin and units that are defined for a time channel. Time channel: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-InkML-20061023/#time Units: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-InkML-20061023/#channel So far as I can tell, although the example uses 'ms' which is an ISO standard time unit designator, the only requirement that the InkML format places on this units designation is that it be an xsd:string value. We should do better. [coordinating approaches to representing timing is an interest of the SYMM WG as I understand. There is precedent in SMIL, Timed Text, and other places around W3C formats I imagine.] Correlating the timestamps in the ink record with other timestamps or time window requirements in other facets of the multimodal interaction processing ensemble is too important to leave the time units to the honor system like this. Traces should use units that are taken from the ISO standard namespace or be backed by metadata that gives the highest-quality-available mapping between the times in the traces and standards-based [ISO, UTC] timing data. The format should instruct ink-trace-writers on how to document their channel units, especially time, and indicate preferred units that map directly to ISO and UTC, or to XSD, SMIL, or some other W3C precedent. Al
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