It has also been generally recognised that content is a major concern for effective e-learning. And, not surprisingly, a lot of the effort is focused on content development. Internationally too, content is a major focus area in e-learning and its variants. The topic of content design from the perspective of designing effective content is also one of serious research interest. RC Clark's work in...

This paper presents a standards-based architecture for a complex and generic distributed multimedia scenario, which combines content search and retrieval, DRM, and context-based content adaptation together. It is an innovative and totally generic approach trying to narrow the semantic-gap by integrating a fl exible language for multimedia search based on MPEG Query Format (MPQF) standard with t...

Pretty much every organisation has a web site these days. Company profile, service portfolio and contact information are among those things that no organisation can afford not to make available via the Internet. But actually, many sites consist of much more than this. Interactions and services for the users are common enough. Personalised sites tailor their content to specific users or user gro...

The paper presents an architecture for enterprise development of eLearning content. The authoring studio is intended to work alone or as an integrated part of learning content management system in conjunction with the presented adaptation engine. The content organisation that facilitate development and repurpose of educational content is offered, by definition of granularity, structure, support...

The impact of user-generated content (UGC), especially negative UGC on enterprises is well recognized. From the perspective of enterprises, different strategies of enterprise-generated content (EGC) have also been adapted to response to the unexpected UGC, but few studies have investigated the influence of such strategies on the UGC propagation. This research examines which strategy on the nega...

This paper aims at giving some feedback about the usability of the very recently released second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). This is done by examining a Web page and evaluating it with both WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 and commenting upon the results obtained and noting how this reflects upon the content and usability of WCAG 2.0. The outcome of this exercise offers...

Description The need for quick-turnaround, high-volume machine translation (MT) projects continues to grow in the localization industry. There is a wide range of quality requirements not only across different clients, but often within a single client across different content types (sales & marketing materials, user-generated content, website content, user manuals, etc.). Most clients have style...