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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


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
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)



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