- From: Farrukh Najmi <farrukh.najmi@sun.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:10:38 -0400
- To: "Butler, Mark" <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: "'desire-registry@ukoln.ac.uk'" <desire-registry@ukoln.ac.uk>, www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Butler, Mark wrote: >Hello > >I have come across this page >http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/ >as it is cited in Heery and Patels' paper "Application profiles: mixing and >matching metadata schemas" in Ariadne. I am interested in this area because >I am working on a project with similar aims called SIMILE, see >http://web.mit.edu/simile > >Are there any other resources available about this project? What is the >current status of the project? > > > This is not directly related to DESIRE project so I changed the subject to start a new thread... I would like to explore within the SIMILE project the use of ebxmlrr [1] which is a royalty free OASIS ebXML Registry standard [2]. A recent presentation on ebxmlrr from XML Europe 2003 is available [3]. The ebXML Registry is a general purpose content management system. Work is underway to add first class support for RDF and OWL content. ebxmlrr could potentially be used as a metadata and content management solution in a project such as SIMILE and enhanced based upon project requirements within open source. Some salient features of the current version of ebxmlrr and ebXML Registry Standard are: - Registry + Repository - Uniform Identification of any type of objects (urn:uuid:...) - Very few polymorphic verbs (similar to TupleSpaces like Linda, JavaSpaces, ...). - Polymorphic, extensible and reflective object model - Dynamic metadata support (Slots) - Association between any two objects - Classification of any type of objects - Associations and Classifications are objects - Taxonomy hosting, browsing and validation - Service registration and discovery - Registry packages to group any objects - Event Archiving - complete audit trail - Life cycle management of objects - Flexible query options (Adhoc SQL92, XML Filter Queries) - Cooperating registries (Federation, Replication, Remote Object references) - Import / Export of registry content - Event Notification - Content management services (pluggable Metadata and Content-specific Validation and Cataloging) - Abstract interface – multiple web-based concrete bindings - Concrete bindings for HTTP, SOAP, ebXML Messaging interfaces to registry - Links to external content - Service interfaces carry XML structures - Security (XML-DSig for authentication, XACML for authorization) - Native language (I18N) support Is there interest in the SIMILE community to epxlore this further? Is this the appropriate mailing list for this discussion? Thanks. Links: [1] ebxmlrr: Open Source ebXML Registry http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net [2] ebXML Registry Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/documents/2.5/specs (for actual specs) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/documents/2.5/ (for other spec related artifacts) [3] Presentations http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/ebxmlrr-xmlEurope2003.sxi (Open Office 1.1) http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/ebxmlrr-xmlEurope2003.ppt (Powerpoint) http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/ (other related presentations) -- Farrukh
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