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Foil 28 General Object Descriptors of Interest to Education II

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
VML is Vector Graphics Mark up Language
DrawML is designed to support simple technical drawings as sketched on whiteboards and used in (my) PowerPoint
VRML (3D scenes) re-implemented in XML as X3D
MathML Mathematical Expressions
What emerges to support export of Excel, Word for spreadsheets, text etc.
Database access languages as in ColdFusion
Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard for metadata exchange, enables better content searching on the Web

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