EUAIN Workshop, 12th May 2005

[EUAIN Project <euain fnb nl>]

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Generating Structures Workshop, 12th May, Brussels
Access to information and using it efficiently are key areas for business but also for all citizens in an open Information Society. The EUAIN Workshop intends to bring together key stakeholders interested in modern information design and to discuss how new possibilities of dealing with information will influence their activities. This Workshop is aimed at the publishing industry; public information services; design industry; software and web designers; service provision for people with disabilities. The workshop is based on the generic idea that focusing on well-structured design from scratch will be of enormous benefit for all stakeholders. These interests converge in having well structured and semantically enriched information. The main themes are:

•	What is structure? Structured document design (meta data concepts and definitions, design guidelines) for text, audio, graphics, moving pictures, uses of accessible metadata
•	The benefits for industry: towards multi channel publishing: 
•	Copyright issues and digital rights management (DRM)
•	The benefits for people with special needs: freedom to choose 
•	From unstructured to structured: methods and tools to enrich information
•	Accessibility and usability from scratch
•	Content and Knowledge Management Systems

Contributions for the Workshop are invited from all those working in the publishing industries and all those with an interest in accessibility. We are particularly keen to welcome new ideas, approaches and technologies, as well as to provide a platform for well-established solutions. You can submit your contribution as a conference paper or a practical demonstration. Closing date for contributions: 29th April 2005.

More information and free registration at:

http://www.euain.org/modules/wfsection/index.php?category=212

The EUAIN workshop has been collocated with a new CEN Workshop on Accessible Document Processing (CEN/ISSS WS/ADP ) with a kick-off meeting on the 13th of May and you can register here:
http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/pm/ws+meeting+registration.asp 


About the European Accessible Information Network (EUAIN)

The EUAIN project (European Accessible Information Network) is funded by the eInclusion thread of the European Commission 6th framework IST programme and co-ordinated by FNB Amsterdam. EUAIN aims to promote e-Inclusion as a core horizontal building block in the establishment of the Information Society by creating a European Accessible Information Network to bring together the different actors in the content creation and publishing industries around a common set of objectives relating to the provision of accessible information. Accessibility for print impaired people can be an increasingly integrated component of the document management and publishing process and should not be a specialised, additional service. More information is available at: www.euain.org 

Please feel free to contact us for further information.

Neil McKenzie
EUAIN Consortium
Email: euain fnb nl  
www.euain.org