Just a point of procedure ... are we back to the drawing board on this
after we've already gone public and allowed folks to spread the results
of the decision around. While I understand Andy's concern, I think we
first have to decide whether we are reopening the decision and let
people know. If we are, then lets do the work quickly with a conference
call or something after alternatives have been defined online. Andy's
test makes sense and if we all agree, we should put it into process so
proposers can demonstrate that they have done it. I personally do not
feel that we can require a ten-person test of name and semantics with a
proposal that has come and gone.
Stuart
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list for the Dublin Core Metadata
> Initiative's Usage Board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Andy Powell
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:48 AM
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> Subject: Re: UB decision on accessibility (draft)
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Andy Powell wrote:
>
> >> Definition: A description of the qualities of the resource in
> >> terms of control, display and
> content that can be
> >> used to match the needs and
> preferences of a user.
>
> Sorry, I'm still mulling this over...
>
> As a rule of thumb, I think we should be able to show our
> definitions (on their own, i.e. without the element name and
> comment) to 10 random english speakers and have most of them
> (say 7 or 8) guess the name of the element with reasonable accuracy.
>
> If less than that proportion guess the element name (or
> something close to the element name), then our definition
> isn't good enough?
>
> In this case, I'm very tempted to try and find 10 random
> english speakers to try it on?
>
> Andy
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