Use case on digital libraries (Re: Review of Use-Case Document)

(Including Harry's comments)

Use case #7 - Digital libraries and focused indexes: W3C wants to 
automate the publication of Technical Reports.

Many organizations produce and publish document on the web (e.g. white 
papers, standards, user guides, administrative forms, etc.) and thus 
many organizations grow digital libraries as part of their web site.
As an example, the most visible part of W3C work is its Technical 
Reports published by the working groups. These reports are published 
following a well-defined process. TR Automation is a project based on 
the use of Semantic Web technologies to allow W3C to streamline the 
publication paper trail of W3C Technical Reports, to maintain an 
RDF-formalized index of these specifications and to create a number of 
tools using these newly available data. This scenario can be generalized 
to any organization interested in maintaining a portal to a digital 
library with customized indexes, dedicated search forms, navigation 
widgets, etc.

The W3C TR automation project aims at generating a formalized and 
authoritative list of W3C Technical Reports in RDF, updated as soon as a 
new Technical Report is officially published. This RDF list is then used 
to generate a number of web pages and tools including:
    * customized indexes of the Technical Reports list (sorted by 
status, by date, by editor, by title, or by activity/group);
    * statistics and reporting tools on the records of publication of 
Technical Reports are provided and rely on SPARQL queries solved against 
the metadata extracted from the reports;
    * bibliographic tools.

These deliverables all rely on a shared XSLT stylesheet to extract 
metadata about Technical Reports in RDF (GRDDL). By crawling the 
published reports and applying this transformation to them, a complete 
and up-to-date RDF index is built from resources distributed over the 
organization and then used to generate integrated views.
The simple fact that the XHTML documents put online follow an official 
template allows a GRDDL stylesheet to be defined to extract 
corresponding RDF annotations that can then be used to generate portals 
and support workflows.


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