Accessibility/Metadata Research Timeline

1983-6 - Nevile employed at Barson Research working in accessibility for 3 years
1993 - Mosaic, first browser for WWW released (Cailliau, 1995)
1994 - (dec) W3C formed at MIT (Cailliau, 1995)
1995?? - Nevile attends first W3C PICs meeting in London (???) note - PICS rec released in 1997 (PICS was first sort of metadata)
1997 - Nevile attends WWW6 conference (theme AccessAbility) in Santa Clara, USA (???)
19?? - Nevile attends IMS GLC Accessibility Working Group (???)
1999 - Nevile joined W3C ATAG Working Group (???)
??? Nevile working with KPMG/Aspect Computing as accessibility and metadata consultant developing Health and Education Channels for Victorian Government
19?? - Nevile attends IMS GLC Accessibility Working Group (???)
19?? Eric Miller and Philip DesAutels in Melb for what?
1997 - Nevile attends first DCMI conference in Canberra, Australia (???)
1997 W3C WAI initiated (Berners-Lee, 2004)
19?? - Nevile invited to Co-chair W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (???)
1998 OZeWAI CD released (OZeWAI http://www.OZeWAI.org/)
19?? W3C meeting in Melbourne with Tim B-L online and Jim Miller in person
1998 Annual OZeWAI conferences commence (OZeWAI http://www.OZeWAI.org/)
1998 - Nevile builds ‘shoe museum’ - demo of Semantic Web at WWW7 conference Brisbane, Australia (???)
1998 - Nevile Organising Committee WWW7 conference Brisbane, Australia (???)
1999 nevile and education application profile??? Kattamingga meeting?
2000 - Nevile at University of Melbourne
2001 - Nevile at meeting of ATAG -(email comment http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2001JulSep/0118.html and for evidence of attending meetings see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2001JulSep/0118.html)
20?? - Accessibility Developer's pages published by La trobe Uni (Nevile) (???)
2001 - Nevile establishes DCMI Accessibility Working Group (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2001 - Meeting of W3C WAI Interest Group and IMS Accessibility Working Group, Melbourne, November 2001 ( DCMI Accessibility Community)
2001- Nevile working with IMS?? earlier??? (for this date see http://www.w3.org/2002/02/mid/B80FE306.7AB2%25liddy@SunriseResearch.com.au;list=w3c-wai-au)
2002 - Nevile working with INCITS V2 on URC representing DCMI needs???
2002 - Meeting of W3C Authoring Tools WG and IMS Accessibility WG associated with W3C Technical Plenary, Nice, February 2002.DCMI Accessibility Community
2002 - One day WWW 2002 Accessibility Workshop (1/2 day on metadata), Waikiki, May 2002.DCMI Accessibility Community
2002 - EARL meeting in Bristol, June 24-26, 2002. Meeting Report. DCMI Accessibility Community
2002 - DC 2002 meeting in Florence, October 13-17. Meeting Report DCMI Accessibility Community
2002 - Release of Guidelines for Accessible Learning in Education by IMS (Retrieved May 19 2008 from http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/).DCMI Accessibility Community
2002 - DC 2002 - October 2002 in Florence - session on accessibility and metadata
2003 - DC2003 - 2 working group sessions - one on compliance metadata and the other one 'functional' metadata see http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/accessibility.html accessed 6/1/2005
2003 - DC/INCITS Accessibility Roadmap Meeting - January 2003 in Washington There is a report of this meeting at http://www.dc-anz.org/access-roadmap (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2003 - DC 2003 - October 2003 in Seattle Two special sessions were held at the DC 2003 Conference: see http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/accessibility.html (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2003 - Release of ACCLIP AccessForAll Metadata Profile and Best Practice Guide for Implementers (Retrieved May 19 2008 from http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/).DCMI Accessibility Community
2004 - Release of ACCMD Accessibility Metadata Overview, Best Practice Guide, XSD, XML Binding and Information Model (Retrieved May 19 2008 from http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/).DCMI Accessibility Community
2004 - IMS/DC Working Group meeting - November in Milton Keynes, UK (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2004 - DC 2004 - October 2004 in Shanghai, China (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2004 - Semantic Web Advanced Development in Europe/MMI-DC 2004 Copenhagen (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2004 - MMI-DC 2004 Brussels (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - Release of draft ISO Committee draft in May 2005: http://jtc1sc36.org/doc/36N1024.pdf, http://jtc1sc36.org/doc/36N1025.pdf, http://jtc1sc36.org/doc/36N1026.pdf (all retrieved May 19 2008).DCMI Accessibility Community
2005 - ISO JTC1 SC36 meetings in North Carolina USA in September 2005 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - DC-Accessibility Working Group sessions at DC 2005 in September 2005(DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - IMS/DC Working Group meeting in Toronto Canada in July 2005 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - IMS/DC Working Group meeting in Sheffield UK in April 2005 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - ISO JTC1 SC36 meetings in Tokyo Japan in Febuary 2005 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - AltiLab and IMS meetings held in Melbourne Australia in February 2005. (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2004 - OZeWAI 2004 - December 2004 in Melbourne, Australia (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - DC Working Group meeting in Melbourne Australia in December 7 - 9 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2005 - IMS/DC Working Group meeting in New Jersey ??? in November 2005 (DCMI Accessibility Community)

2006 - Many Task Groups meetings took place online in 2006 including weekly teleconferences (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2006 - DC-Accessibility Working Group session at DC 2006 in October 2006 (DCMI Accessibility Community)
2007 - DC-Accessibility Community meeting in Singapore ....at DC2007