PICS is a pair of Protocols, allowing labels to be applied to WWW content. These Protocols empower any individual or organization to design and distribute labels reflecting their views about the content. PICS was pioneered by W3C as a practical alternative to global governmental censorship of the Internet. In addition, the same technology facilitates searching the WWW and provides a foundation for establishing trust in information on the WWW. PICS labels are rather limited in their expressiveness. A new version of PICS will be based on RDF, facilitating
If you've paid any attention to the web standards discussions, you may have heard the phrase "Semantic Web", or perhaps even been pressured to use standards with names like "Dublin Core Metadata" or "RDF". If you've attempted to read any of the available documentation on these topics, you were probably intimidated by terms such as "reify" and all sorts of artificial intelligence concepts. This document attempts to explain what all of this chatter really means, and help you decide which parts you should care about and why. I have tried to use
DataBinding is core to XPComponents, all components directly support data binding, no classes to include, nothing to enable, its all there built in from the ground up.
The XP Components provide a powerful feature rich DataBinding architecture
Data binding in its traditional sense means associating some underlying data with one or more user interface elements. The data provides the information to display. The user interface elements render the information in the appropriate format.
The XP Data Architecture extends the traditional idea of data
There is a lot of interesting research going on in the group (feel free to contact anyone in the group if you want to know more - contact details are on the home page). We are really interested in multimodal human-computer interaction - using different sensory modalities to communicate information. Most current interfaces rely almost entirely on vision to present information. This is not natural and can cause sighted users to become overloaded and is a major problem for people with sight impairments.
What we are doing is investigating the use of