Re: Synchronized Multimedia homepage content

Yeah, i figured at least if we have an automated way to make sure we're
talking about the same thing, it'd be good to use as a baseline for
conversation ;)

One of my problems is that i have found some content, but since i am unaware
of what content -used- to be linked, i can't judge whether it's the correct
content or not.  To what degree does the content on the page need to remain
the same?

Clearly some of the content has simply up and vanished off the internet.  A
couple of the domains linked to on the page have gone dark, and i'm not sure
there's recoverable content.  Other links such as
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~kmiller/dvguide/analysis_tools.htm are also
likely hopless, given the fact that kmiller is a name with a high
perplexity, and i don't have any other information to use to dig through the
UIUC psych site (or knowledge of whether kmiller was a grad student,
post-doc or faculty).

Realistically i don't really have high hopes for being able to recover most
of the content.  But never the less, i'll see what i can find.

-Ted

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:

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>> I dug up the W3C link checker if anyone wants an automated look at what's
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>>  Thanks for pointing to the W3C validator ;-)
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>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org <mailto:
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>>    Ted,
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>>    I agree that the SMIL homepage is out of date and needs some updates.
>>    Unfortunately the dead links is caused by people breaking URLs (URLs
>>    don't break themselves).
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>>    Not that the SYMM WG is granted a charter extension until Nov 2010,
>>    we will do our best to revise this page, but we definitively lack
>>    human resources, and your help would be appreciated.
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>>    Thierry.
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>>        Hey folks,
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>>        Does anyone know why the SMIL homepage is so hopelessly out of
>>        date?  There are quite a number of dead links and outdated
>>        material cluttering up the homepage, and i was curious if anyone
>>        was either aware of where the content has moved to, or whether
>>        it has all simply disappeared into the aether.
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>>        In particular, nearly all of the links to Real networks' info on
>>        SMIL are dead or redirect, Oratrix seems to have disappeared
>>        from the internet, and the only update the working group has put
>>        out in a year seems to be another charter extension until Nov
>>        2010 (although none of the news reflects that).
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>>        As an end user of the SMIL specification (and other open w3c
>>        specs) i find it rather frustrating that the materials
>>        surrounding SMIL seem to lack any attention or maintenance.
>>         It's been quite an endeavor to track down information regarding
>>        how SMIL is currently being used, and who is or has been using it.
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>>        I apologize if i am being overly critical, SMIL is a standard
>>        important to the company i work for, and important to me as an
>>        open standard.  I quite like the model that SMIL has developed,
>>        which is why i'm frustrated that the outreach/evangelism effort
>>        seems to be so weak!  Keep up the good work (and hopefully there
>>        will be more)!
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>>        Cheers,
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>>        -Ted Han
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>>        (P.S. if help is needed to clean up the page, i certainly could
>>        spare some time to save others aggravation.)
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