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To: DCMI Accessibility Community All, Following recent activity around the mapping of the ISO PNP/DRD to Dublin Core I want to make the list aware of current work in the EU4ALL project (http://www.eu4all-project.eu). Among many other things the EU4ALL project is developing an approach to Content Personalisation for accessibility that is responsive both to Device Descriptions and User Profiles. We think we are the first project worldwide to do this and it has already been identified by our sponsors the European Commission as a key innovative contribution of the project. The approach taken is to in effect create an integrated Application Profile of CC/PP, PNP and DRD. This work is already complete at the information model level. We are currently working on the binding issues. The Open University is charged with developing the first version of the RDF binding of the PNP/DRD elements by 16 May (a RDF binding of CC/PP already exists). We will be working openly sharing the approach for comment with all relevant communities including IMS and ISO and as now seems important and timely DC. The RDF binding to be produced by the 16 May deadline will not be a complete binding of PNP/DRD but could be the basis of an approach for subsequent further development and incorporation into standards of the relevant standards bodies. We are taking an incremental approach and will be binding the elements required to enable the behaviours of our early prototypes (which are due in a few months time). Further development of the binding will take place within the project after we have validated the partial approach in the integration of our early prototypes. I think this implementation and evaluation work is vital to iron out issues and to be able to sell the approach more widely. Generally I think the lack of prototypes of interim proposals has been a weakness in past AccessForAll work and now we have a funded opportunity to address that at this stage. This effort will probably be of use to those working in the same area within DC and we can freely make it available. I hope we can harmonise the efforts and jointly promote uptake and interoperability. Please feel free to contact me to indicate an interest, ask questions or pass on relevant information. Cheers, Martyn Martyn Cooper Head: Accessibility in Educational Media team Institute of Educational Technology Open University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1908 655729 Mobile: +44 (0)7980 912236 Skype: martyncooper [log in to unmask] http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/m.cooper/ --------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).