Hi Liddy,
Thanks for your comments (in this and your subsequent email) re
accessibility and education. In the spirit of trying to advance
discussion on this, I will ramble a bit below.. obviously we don't have
the solutions in the DC-Ed community any more than anyone else does, but
I have a few thoughts.
We are working on what we are calling a "thin" or modular application
profile that only relates to describing the educational aspects or uses
of a resource. In other words our application profile does not cover
those aspects of resources that are covered elsewhere by DCMI (or indeed
any other metadata community)- it is intended to be used with or plugged
into other APs. This is an approach that has long been discussed as a
way forward in the LOM community for dealing with all the different
kinds of metadata, so it's good to be finally exploring a way of doing
it. I think how accessibility metadata relates to other metadata is a
good use case for this way of developing APs. Is there a modular
accessibility AP under development, or any work similar that we can
refer to?
So a question I have is: are there any education-specific accessibility
properties or attributes of resources that we need to look at in this
AP? For instance, do we need vocabularies for learning resource type or
instructional method that in some way describe accessibility features?
For instance, particular instructional methods to accommodate different
cognitive styles or abilities, etc. I am co-ordinating the task of
identifying vocabularies for the DC-Ed AP, so I would be interested to
hear of any work in this area, or get any feedback from those with more
experience in this area.
If it looks as though there is a lot of work needed around this above
what we have agreed to do before the next DCMI Conference, we can table
it for discussion then- in the meantime I'm happy to gather stuff.
Best
Sarah
Liddy Nevile wrote:
> Sarah et al
>
> What is to be the relationship between the accessibility community and
> the education community?
>
> It is essential to the education group that attention is paid to
> accessibility but it would not make sense for the ed community to work
> separately on accessibility. I think we need to make sure that in the
> ed community's plan of action, there is provision for input/critique
> of what we do in the accessibility area. From the accessibility
> community's perspective, I am sure this would be welcomed.
>
> Liddy
>
> On 10/02/2007, at 12:47 AM, Sarah Currier wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> At last year's DCMI Conference, Stuart Sutton stepped down as a
>> Moderator of the Dublin Core Educational Community (formerly known as
>> the DC-Ed Working Group), after years of valuable service. I have
>> agreed to take up this role (knowing I can’t fill Stuart’s shoes!)
>> alongside Diane Hillmann, who remains in post as the other Moderator.
>>
>> It seems timely to re-iterate the activities that the DC-Ed Community
>> agreed in Mexico to carry out this year. There is a report from our
>> Working Session there at
>> http://dublincore.org/groups/education/DC-Ed_Working_Sess_2006.pdf
>>
>>
>> The two main work areas are:
>>
>> - The Joint DCMI/IEEE LTSC Taskforce, which is producing a joint
>> DCMI/IEEE specification making recommendations for using IEEE LOM
>> Elements in Dublin Core metadata.
>>
>> To find out more about this activity, visit the Taskforce wiki at
>> http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DCMIIEEELTSCTaskforce
>>
>>
>> - The DC-Ed Application Profile.
>>
>> To find out more about this activity, read the rest of this e-mail-
>> and visit the AP wiki at:
>> http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/DC_2dEducation_20Application_20Profile
>>
>>
>>
>> DC-Ed AP Activities for 2007:
>>
>> Diane and I are both keen to bring some new energy and new people to
>> these three activities, so please let me know if you want to be
>> involved: you can also keep an eye out for specific emails on the
>> topics you are interested in.
>>
>> 1. Specifying functional requirements and use cases for a modular
>> DC-Ed Application Profile, including a “thin AP” definition.
>>
>> Contact: Diane Hillmann - [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> 2. Defining a candidate list of jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional
>> vocabularies.
>>
>> Contact: Sarah Currier – [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> 3. A new look at LOM elements and their vocabularies to determine
>> which ones might be candidates for inclusion in the DC-Ed AP. Some
>> discussion of overlapping properties will be part of this task.
>>
>> Stuart Sutton is doing some work on this so please contact him at:
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> DC-Ed is also involved in the NSDL Vocabulary Development efforts:
>> http://metamanagement.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VocabDevel
>>
>> For those in the UK (or able to come to the UK), there will be a
>> meeting of the JISC-CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group in
>> March/April this year devoted to the DC-Ed AP and DCMI/IEEE work:
>> http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Metadata I will report back on this.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Sarah
>>
>> -- Sarah Currier Product Manager, Intrallect Ltd.
>> http://www.intrallect.com 2nd Floor, Regent House Blackness Road
>> Linlithgow EH49 7HU United Kingdom Tel: +44 870 234 3933 Mob: +44
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http://www.intrallect.com
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Blackness Road
Linlithgow
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United Kingdom
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