Open Accessibility Data Interlinking

Ding, Chaohai; Wald, Mike; Wills, Gary

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08599-9_12

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“…The authors of [13], [14] explored the potential benefits of exploiting open accessibility data. The main aim of these works is addressing the information barriers between users' needs and accessible facilities or places.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalizing Pedestrian Accessible way-finding with mPASS

Mirri

Prandi

Salomoni

2016

2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications &Amp; Networking Conference (CCNC)

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This work presents users evaluation of mPASS (mobile Pervasive Accessibility Social Sensing), a system to provide citizens with personalized accessible way finding. mPASS collects data both from crowdsourcing and from crowdsensing, in order to obtain a detailed georeferenced description of the urban environment accessibility. It combines these data with a user profile, with the aim of tailoring paths and maps to users' preferences and needs. To drive the design of our application, we assessed our first proposal through a preliminary questionnaire, showing mPASS mockups to 60 uses with disability and elderly users. On the basis of the results of such questionnaire, we developed a prototype and we tested it with a small group of pilot users. This paper presents results of both the assessments.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalizing Pedestrian Accessible way-finding with mPASS

Mirri

Prandi

Salomoni

2016

2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications &Amp; Networking Conference (CCNC)

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“…IMS Global offers Access for All metadata and user preferences standards, which specification consists of a common language for describing and matching users' needs to published resources 5 (see Cooper & Heath, 2009). Ding et al (2013Ding et al ( , 2014 discuss the possibilities of linked data for accessibility, which raises the question of structured description and identification of accessible resources to the latest web technologies. Despite the existence of standards, there is little available information or empirical evidence of their uptake or efficacy in the wider disability-services community, for sharing and resource-discovery.…”

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Toward accessible course content: Challenges and opportunities for libraries and information systems

Fenlon

Wood

Downie

et al. 2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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The population of students with disabilities in postsecondary institutions is significant and rising. The U.S. Department of Education reports that 11% of students, or more than two million students, in post-secondary education report having a disability. Providing accessible versions of materials for courses is a core service of disability-services offices in schools. Finding, obtaining, or generating accessible course content is a challenging process for disability-services providers at institutions ranging from community colleges to research universities, many of which receive hundreds of individualized requests for content each semester. Although a range of sources and services to assist in this process have emerged, they are insufficient and inefficient because they keep people from working together on a complex, shared problem. In the summer of 2015, we conducted a qualitative study of the challenges facing disability services providers in U.S. postsecondary institutions, in order to design and implement information systems that would enable large-scale sharing of locally improved, accessible course content with qualified students in the U.S. This paper reports on the subset of our findings that addresses challenges to providing, sharing, and reusing accessible digital content. Our findings suggest that there are substantial opportunities for the LIS and library communities to apply our expertise to this gap in information services for an expanding population of students.

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“…Due to the fact that some data entities fetched are presenting the same object in the real world, there are some data issues, such as data duplication or some data with uncompleted properties. The proposed ontology-based entity matching approach [5] has been applied to interlink these datasets as well as link to other resources on the Linked Data Cloud, such as LinkedGeoData. In the current stage, the experiments of this model have been finished and the SPARQL endpoints of the generated Linked Datasets published for public usage.…”

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Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

Ding

Wald

Wills

2015

Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference

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With the aim of addressing the gap between users' needs of accessible travelling and complex environmental barriers of physical places in the real world, this paper summarizes the research of investigating the use of Linked Data principles for enhanced accessible travelling decision support. Firstly, this paper reviews current research and projects to identify some problems and challenges. Then a conceptual model and the reference architecture of Linked Data-driven decision support system (DSS) for accessible travelling are proposed to address such problems to enhance the accessible travelling for people with disabilities (PwD), especially for people with mobility difficulties. As a result, this research would not only benefit PwD, but also contribute to the research of a novel model to address accessibility information barriers by applying the Linked Data principles to DSSs for enhanced accessible travelling.

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Open Accessibility Data Interlinking

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Personalizing Pedestrian Accessible way-finding with mPASS

Personalizing Pedestrian Accessible way-finding with mPASS

Toward accessible course content: Challenges and opportunities for libraries and information systems

Linked data-driven decision support for accessible travelling

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