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Foil 33 General Object Descriptors of Interest to Education III

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) enables simple authoring of TV-like multimedia presentations such as training courses on the Web
2 Image and other specialized media descriptors
  • enable storing of multiple resolutions (image) or multiple video codecs and optimized access
3 More generally perhaps universalaccessML will allow one to support different renderings of an object needed for different users and clients
  • palmtops versus PC's
  • audio versus image for visually impaired users
4 "People" including students, teachers, administrators
5 "Bibliographic" descriptors as in Dublin Core
6 CollaborationML as in NPAC's SPW (Shared Portal on the Web)
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