ISO/IEC JTC 1 N7137

SC2/WG2 N2599

2003-06-26

Replaces:

ISO/IEC JTC 1Information Technology

Document Type: Other document (Defined)
Document Title:

SC36 and SC36/CLFA Overview

Document Source:

SC 36 Chairman

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Document Status: This document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies for information as action, as
appropriate, as per recommendation 4 of document JTC 1 N 7136.

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ACT

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Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1, American National Standards Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036; Telephone: 1 212 642 4932;
Facsimile: 1 212 840 2298; Email: lrajchel@ansi.org

SC36 and SC36/CLFA Overview
Frank Farance,
frank@farance.com
Erlend Øverby,Erlend.Overby@conduct.no
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1What Is SC36?
• SC36 concerns IT standards for learning,education, and training• SC36 is relatively new• Several kinds of stakeholders, e.g.,learners, teachers, content developers,institutions, tool developers, etc.

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2What Is SC36?
• Five working groups:– WG1: Vocabulary– WG2: Collaborative technology– WG3: Participant information– WG4: Management and delivery– WG5: Quality metrics/frameworks• Three rapporteur groups:– RG1: Marketing– RG2: International Standardized Profiles (ISP)– RG3: Culture, Language, and Function
Accommodation (CLFA)
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3What is SC36/CLFA• Title:– SC36 Accommodation of Culture, Language, andFunction (CLFA) RG• Scope:– (1) To serve as a resource, consultant, andreviewer of culture-, language-, and functionrelated accommodation activities within SC36;– (2) To report to SC36 and maintain resources ofculture, language, and function accommodation
activities.
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Rationale for CLFAAnd Accommodation• A main business need for SC36:– ability for IT systems to “personalize” themselves to theneeds of the learner, student, mentor, etc.

• Examples:– delivering different learning content based on a learner's
capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, past history, and futureobjectives• Other kinds:– not tied to learning, education, and training, but tied thegeneral needs and capabilities of users, systems, content,etc.

• Fall under the heading of CLFA
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“Concept System” (TC37)
Perspective of “Accommodation”• adaptation:– IT systems, users, etc. change to meet needs• personalization:– adaptation to meet needs of people/persons• accommodation:– application-independent personalization

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“Concept System” (TC37)
Perspective of “Accommodation”
adaptation
personalization

Other kinds of adaptation havenothing to do with one’s
personal needs, e.g., system/
network adaptationaccommodation
applicationindependent

application-specificetc.
function
language

Example: adapting to learner’s
education level or skill setculture
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CLFA Is Bottom-Up Approach• First:– Satisfy individual needs• Later:– Satisfy group needs• Much Later:– International agreement (internationalization)

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8Top-Down Approach• internationalization (I18N)– common concept/concept system of features• localization (L10N)– transformation to cultures/languages• locale– specification of kind of transformation– current work in SC32

• SC36 concerns– doesn’t completely address needs for“personalization”
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Prior CLFA Accomplishments• Review of industry documents:– CEN/ISSS/DfA, CEN/ISSS/WS-LT, W3C,
INCITS/V2, IETF, IMS, DCMI, etc.

• Recommendations:– Internationalization of value domains– CLFA NP criteria– “Accessibility Metadata”– Accommodation framework for content
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10Current/Future Work• Continuing industry review:– Review of current SC36/WG work programme– Submit terms via SC36/WG1 methods– Review SC32 11179-4, 11179-5, 11179-6– Review SC35 18036– CEN CWA on language capability– Summary of recommendations from work done byother SSDOs• Review CLFA computation model• Internationalization of VD– 11179-3 registries are a great help for standards• Trial use of NP criteria within SC36
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11Further Information• SC36:– http//jtc1sc36.org– Frank Farance, frank@farance.com+1 212 486 4700

• SC36 CLFA
– http://jtc1sc36.org/clfa– Erlend Øverby, Erlend.Overby@conduct.no+47 90 12 96 42
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