FW: SIMILE work

FYI

-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley P. Allen [mailto:ballen@siderean.com]
Sent: 05 November 2003 14:47
To: Butler, Mark
Cc: Bradley Allen
Subject: RE: SIMILE work


Mark- I've been following the work you and the SIMILE team have been doing
on the public list with interest. The is a great deal of commonality with
the experience we've been having here at Siderean on the wrangling of
metadata into RDF and the use of our Seamark platform to support faceted
search over the integrated data.

Since you have been using Seamark as an example of faceted search/browse,
you and your team might find some recent examples of what we've been doing
of interest as well:

- The 2003 Dublin Core Conference online proceedings, with links to the
source RDF(S): http://www.siderean.com/dc2003/search.jsp.

- About half of the learning objects in the Gateway to Educational Materials
repository: http://squidward.siderean.com:9090/test/gem.jsp.

- A much larger chunk of Medline documents than in the official site demo,
with all of MeSH added in: http://www.siderean.com/demos/medline.jsp.

- WordNet 1.7: http://www.siderean.com/demos/wordnet.jsp.

- Library of Congress TGM-I and TGM-II:
http://www.siderean.com/demos/tgm.jsp.

- CIDOC CRM cleaned up a bit and viewable by properties
http://www.siderean.com:9090/test/cidocprops.jsp and
http://www.siderean.com:9090/test/cidocclasses.jsp

- For good measure, the SIMILE research drivers issues database:
http://www.siderean.com:9090/test/simileissues.jsp

It occurs to me that, technically speaking, it should be a simple matter to
bring your corpora up in Seamark, as further grist for your demo mill. I
would guess that generating at least initial versions of the viewer
applications you describe below would take on the order of a day or less. I
realize that organizational and data licensing issues will probably make
that impractical, but I thought I'd make the offer, for what it's worth. It
would be an interesting experiment.

In any case, I look forward to the time when we might be able to meet up and
discuss matters of mutual interest. - cheers, BPA

Bradley P. Allen
Siderean Software LLC
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Los Angeles, CA 90250
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