- From: Fabien Gandon <Fabien.Gandon@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:25:53 +0200
- To: public-grddl-wg <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
(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. -- "there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." -- Winston Churchill. ____________ |__ _ |_ http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/Fabien.Gandon/ | (_||_) INRIA Sophia Antipolis - ph# (33)(0)4 92 38 77 88
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