Update on SIMILE: John Gilbert

Hi Team, 

Just a quick note to welcome John Gilbert (john.gilbert@hp.com) to the
SIMILE team. John is summer intern working with me at HP Labs in Bristol
from Trinity College Dublin. He worked with me on using multiple namespaces
in CC/PP last year, see
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-31.html. 

On SIMILE John will be working on the "Using multiple schemas / ontologies
to describe data" prototype. Here is an updated description of this
activity:

INVESTIGATE USE OF MULTIPLE SCHEMAS IN SIMILE

At the moment libraries use many different metadata schemas in different
formats. SIMILE is exploring the applicability of using RDF and other
Semantic Web tools as a standardised format for this metadata. Therefore
this work aims to

1. To investigate and compare tools that support users when creating,
selecting, navigating, modifying and re-using metadata schemas, controlled
vocabularies, thesauri, faceted descriptions or ontologies. For example
Protege [pro], IsaViz [isa] or OilEd [oil] are all tools aimed at ontology
creation whereas the MEG project investigated the use of a client for
creating application profiles. In addition there are many commercial tools
available for controlled vocabulary creation and thesauri creation. Using
these tools, create some schemas for some existing schemas and vocabularies.
(5 weeks)

2. To leverage one the open-source tools to create a prototype that
demonstates the task of schema creation, selection, navigation, modification
and reuse in the SIMILE context and the task of creating, selecting,
navigating and modifying instance data using the corpus of instance data
created in the previous stage. This prototype need not be fully functional,
its primary purpose to explore the type of UI required to support these
tasks. (4 weeks)

4. Based on this investigation, come up with a document that defines the
architectural requirements for this part of the SIMILE architecture. (4
weeks)

best regards

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

Received on Friday, 4 July 2003 10:04:34 UTC