- From: Butler, Mark <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:58:14 +0100
- To: " (www-rdf-dspace@w3.org)" <www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>
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/
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