RE: DRAFT: SIMILE CY2003 What/Why

AFS: Andy's inline comments thus.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bass, Mick [mailto:mick.bass@hp.com] 
Sent: 15 August 2003 13:01
To: SIMILE public list
Subject: DRAFT: SIMILE CY2003 What/Why


Draft, for comment and discussion at today's call.
    
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SIMILE Key Milestone:

        CY2003 Year-End Demo


Why:

- Demonstrate interfaces and effective collaboration among all six teams
contributing to SIMILE
  (SIMILE Core, Haystack, Jena2, Genesis, MIT Libraries, SWAD)

- Demonstrate a vivid picture of the SIMILE technical agenda, now and
through end CY'04. 

AFS: Would benefit from articulation of the agenda here; what's now, what's
covered to CY'04, what's beyond 

- Demonstrate progress and momentum to SIMILE funders.

- Demonstrate potential path forward and calibrate expectations among DSpace
installed base & adopter community.


Audience (Who):

- HP/MIT Alliance Steering Committee
- HPL Internal Sponsors
- W3C, CSAIL, and MIT Libraries Sponsors
- DSpace Installed Base / Adopter Community 

AFS: Would be good to separate out which "why" applies to which group. 

What:

This Demo will focus on:

A) implementing and presenting demo #1a from the SIMILE Plenary.  Intent is
to demonstrate Semantic Web- based technology that maps between two islands
of records to aid discovery.

B) demonstrating connectivity between external client (Haystack), SIMILE
Metadata Store, and content in DSpace.  Plan is to focus upon navigating
data from the recently-revised DSpace History System Metadata Store.

It is not necessarily required for this demo that haystack be the client
that implements UI functionality for (A).  However if analysis of the demo
scope and schedule indicate that this is possible, doing so would be
desirable. 

AFS: It is, for all practical purposes, necessary to have some sort of UI
for (A), for that UI to be able to show images (the content) and the
metadata.  That UI could be conventional. Just some command line magic isn't
a strong communication tool. 

It is not necessarily required for this demo to present demo #1b from the
SIMILE Plenary.  However if analysis of the demo scope and schedule indicate
that this is possible, doing so would be desirable.

Demo #1a requires further definition and tuning with respect to the scope,
specific corpus, and specific mappings to be implemented.  Such tuning of
the scope of the demo will be conducted bearing in mind the goals and
audience indicated above. 

AFS: I'm not clear here.  Which parts of the scope are tunable?


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