Open data. In the spirit of my instalments on opening data on social networks (part one, two, and three), I've actively promoted some data I've gathered in the context of a paper published at W4A.
The raw data concerns an accessibility assessment of nearly 8000 Web pages, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. While this data is provided in CSV format, I'm currently working on making these type of assessments readily available as linked data, thus allowing (hopefully) more insightful discoveries of Web accessibility at large scales.
You can find the data, software, and associated publications list - side by side with some descriptive texts - in my PhD's work Web page. Use the data at your will, but do not forget to give credit where due :)
Showing posts with label accessibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accessibility. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Investigatione miscellanea
Despite not posting a lot of stuff in the past weeks (apart from the smallish post about OpenID), I've been quite busy working on my PhD - apart from a small vacation hiatus in the last bunch of days.
In a nutshell, my PhD hypothesis says that, in order to cope with rich interaction scenarios on the Web (i.e., everything that is not a common user with a desktop computer with a typical Web browser and a mouse), one must center their focus on characterizing the set of Web Interaction Environments (WIEs) that one's interested in.
Currently, I've defined a way to specify WIEs (and encompassing prototype modeling tool) - more on that later on (I guess I'll have to create a wiki page about it on my research group's website). I've also sketched a way to reverse engineer existing websites and Web applications crossing the ConcurTaskTrees and traditional hypermedia/Web engineering modeling practices (such as OOHDM or W2000), that allows leveraging accessibility and usability in a pragmatic way. Also, this practice may (can?) be used to fully model highly dynamic websites and Web applications for a given set of WIEs (this is yet to be proven).
However, now it's time for one more pause to fully rercharge my batteries. A long year is waiting for me, from the middle of August onwards, fulfilled with ideation, prototyping, testing, writing, and presenting tasks. See you then.
In a nutshell, my PhD hypothesis says that, in order to cope with rich interaction scenarios on the Web (i.e., everything that is not a common user with a desktop computer with a typical Web browser and a mouse), one must center their focus on characterizing the set of Web Interaction Environments (WIEs) that one's interested in.
Currently, I've defined a way to specify WIEs (and encompassing prototype modeling tool) - more on that later on (I guess I'll have to create a wiki page about it on my research group's website). I've also sketched a way to reverse engineer existing websites and Web applications crossing the ConcurTaskTrees and traditional hypermedia/Web engineering modeling practices (such as OOHDM or W2000), that allows leveraging accessibility and usability in a pragmatic way. Also, this practice may (can?) be used to fully model highly dynamic websites and Web applications for a given set of WIEs (this is yet to be proven).
However, now it's time for one more pause to fully rercharge my batteries. A long year is waiting for me, from the middle of August onwards, fulfilled with ideation, prototyping, testing, writing, and presenting tasks. See you then.
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