Re: Gap analysis

Yes, Marcia, I think that your list of "temporary questions" is mostly  
what I am thinking of as a gap analysis. I would like to suggest that  
each cluster include a gap analysis derived from the use cases, and  
that in the end we should bring these together as part of our final  
report.

kc

Quoting "ZENG, MARCIA" <mzeng@kent.edu>:

> Karen,
> We have a 'Temporary Questions and Notes (from use cases)' section  
> temporarily sitting there in the VocAlign cluster wiki page. [1]  I  
> think there are similar types of gaps with what you have listed.  Do  
> you think those can be useful points?  We have not  
> summarized/organized them yet.
> Marcia
>
> [1] 8. Temporary Questions and Notes (from use cases)
> in: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Cluster_VocAlign
>
>
>
> On 1/6/11 1:57 PM, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>
> This is a (hasty?) gap analysis from the Archives Cluster:
>
> Missing Vocabularies
> - sometimes specific (physical state of original in a preservation
> context), sometimes general (need vocabularies for preservation data),
> but no vocabulary for the function or data elements
>
> Data incompatibilities or lacks
> - current data is free text, but contains quantitative information
> that needs to be pulled out
> - data needs to be qualified as "estimated" or "derived" so users know
> it is not precise (this is possibly a vocabulary issue)
> - current practice does not include rich relationships, just
> "related," so there is no source of relationships
>
> Community guidance
> - no examples in our community domain that we can follow
> - lack of information on how to create a data model
> - no community guidance on which technologies and vocabularies to use
>
> Technology questions
> - is linked data scalable to the size we need?
> - is linked data appropriate for highly hierarchical data models?
>
> Technology availability
> - no systems available on market for linked data creation and use
> - open source solutions available are in an unfinished state
>
>
> kc
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