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Foil 26 General Object Descriptors of Interest to Education III

From Portals for Web Based Education and Training Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. 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
  • 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)



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