Apologies for cross-posting. Andy Heath posted this invitation on the
CETIS-Accessibility list and I thought that some of you might also be
interested in the following invitation.
Sharon Perry
Accessibility SIG Co-ordinator.
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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 TBA.
Participation is by invitation and registration is required. To request
an invitation and register: email your name, contact information and email
address to Toni Roberts at [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]
and
Toni Roberts [log in to unmask]
For more information on present participating organizations:
IMS Accessibility Working Group (http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility)
CEN-ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop (WS-LT): Accessibility Properties
for Learning Resources (APLR) (http://www.cen-aplr.org/)
Dublin Core:Accessibility (http://dublincore.org/groups/access)
W3C/WAI (http://www.w3.org/wai)
EuroAccessibility (http://www.euroaccessibility.org/)
SIDAR (http://www.sidar.org/)
CanCore (http://www.cancore.ca/)
EduSpecs (http://eduspecs.ic.gc.ca/)
AGLS (http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html)
British Standards Institute (http://edd2.bsi.org.uk/link.php/ist/43)
National Center for Accessible Media (http://ncam.wgbh.org/).
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