DESIRE Project

Hello

I have come across this page
http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/
as it is cited in Heery and Patels' paper "Application profiles: mixing and
matching metadata schemas" in Ariadne. I am interested in this area because
I am working on a project with similar aims called SIMILE, see 
http://web.mit.edu/simile

Are there any other resources available about this project?  What is the
current status of the project?

Also the web page
http://www.schemas-forum.org/
cited on the DESIRE page does not work - is this work still continuing and
if so do you have a URL? 

thanks in advance

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
mark-h_butler@hp.com
Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/