Hi Anastasia, Excellent summary! I agree that the schema.org approach is preferable, despite its drawbacks. In the end, I suspect it will have a higher likelihood of eventually being indexed by search engines (which is what we want), and the nature of the AccessForAll DRD metadata is well-suited to the use of itemscope and the meta tag.
I think this work will become particularly interesting when we are able to blend algorithmically-derived and user-gathered metadata into a resource seamlessly (and usably). This is a good first step. Already, the work you've done should be enough to help enable a search engine or resource browser to filter out content that might be less suitable for a user's needs or to highlight content that is especially well suited. Thanks for looking into this, Colin On 2012-04-03, at 9:34 AM, Cheetham, Anastasia wrote: > In considering how we're going to add Access For All metadata to OERs > authored using the OER Commons authoring tool, I've taken a look at > microformats and schema.org microdata. I've drafted wiki pages describing how > these two options might be used: > > schema.org microdata: > > http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Proposal+-+Access+For+All+Properties+for+schema.org+Classes > > microformats: > > http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Proposal+-+Access+For+All+microformat > > The microformat option looks tidier and simpler on the surface (it's strictly > classnames added to HTML elements, whereas the schema.org approach requires > additional markup), but on closer examination I think the schema.org approach > provides a better solution (notes on the wiki pages should help elaborate on > why). I look forward to hearing other thoughts. > > These are just drafts, and I would really love it if we could pick this apart > and revise and refine. --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
