VRA, RDF, MyLibrary, and uPortal

I have finally have something to contribute to this list about VRA, RDF,
MyLibrary, and uPortal.

The other day MacKenzie sent along a VRA Core schema, and it included the
names of contributors:

  <!--
  
    VRA (Visual Resources Association) Core 3.0 XML Schema, version 0
  
    Developed by Esme Cowles (UC San Diego) with input from Matt
    Benzing (RPI), Sherman Clarke (NYU), Howard Batchelor (UCLA),
    Rick Beaubien (UC Berkeley), Karim Boughida (Getty Research
    Institute), Mary Elings (UC Berkeley), Fae Hamilton (RLG), Oleg
    Kreymer (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Emerson Morgan (ARTStor),
    Merrilee Proffitt (RLG), Trish Rose (UC San Diego), Eric
    Stedfeld (NYU), Guenter Waibel (RLG, formerly UC Berkeley),
    Robin Wendler (Harvard) and Brad Westbrook (UC San Diego).
  
  -->

Ironic, because just last week or so I met a number of these people at the
MCN Annual Conference in Las Vegas:

  http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/travel/mcn-2003/

During the conference there was a lot of discussion about VRA Core and
creating a schema, and some of us sat down in a casino and discussed the
next steps.

At the same time I am very interested in RDF, and we are working on
syndicating MyLibrary (a library-based portal application) content to
uPortal/SCT Luminis. To date this is working pretty well. We're working with
some folks from Leigh University to make this more of a reality:

  http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/

Additionally, we are exploring the use of Dspace as a means of collecting
and archiving digital assets of the University.

It is a small world, and it is nice when things come full circle.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604

Received on Monday, 24 November 2003 15:42:40 UTC