General Object Descriptors of Interest to Education III
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) enables simple authoring of TV-like multimedia presentations such as training courses on the Web
Image and other specialized media descriptors
- enable storing of multiple resolutions (image) or multiple video codecs and optimized access
- Kodak will popularize for family memorabilia portal
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
“People” including students, teachers, administrators
“Bibliographic” descriptors as in Dublin Core
CollaborationML as in NPAC’s SPW (Shared Portal on the Web)