WWW2004 DevDay Proposal

Hi team,

I have put together a proposal to submit to the WWW2004 Dev Day track.
Please let me have feedback by Tuesday the 12th at the latest? Thanks.

SIMILE [1] is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. SIMILE seeks to
enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemas, metadata, and
services, by leveraging and extending DSpace [2] and enhancing its support
for arbitrary schemas and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF
and Semantic Web techniques. 

The SIMILE team has put together a prototype to demonstrate these ideas. It
takes data from collections from Artstor [3] and OpenCourseWare [4], along
with the Library of Congress Thesaurus of Graphic Materials [5], Library of
Congress Authority records [6] via a prototype service created by OCLC [7],
and the Wikipedia public domain encyclopedia [8], converts this data to RDF
using the SKOS [9], VCard [10], Dublin Core [11] and IEEE LOM [12] schemas
to represent the data. 
It then automatically identifies equivalences in the data using Levenshtein
distances [13] to produce an OWL file to map between the datasets. This OWL
file is then edited to resolve ambiguous equivalences, then the data is
loaded into a novel browser that combines both faceted browsing and RDF
relational browsing. 

We would like to demonstrate this prototype at the Dev Day session, outline
the technology that has been used in the prototype, and also discuss further
work that needs to be done before this approach can be scaled up to
production systems that deal with the data volumes we would expect in real
life library deployment.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/simile/www/
[2] http://www.dspace.org/
[3] http://www.artstor.org/
[4] http://ocw.mit.edu/
[5] http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/
[6] http://authorities.loc.gov/
[7] http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/archive/alcme.htm
[8] http://www.wikipedia.org/
[9] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core
[10] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-vcard-rdf-20010222/
[11] http://dublincore.org/
[12] http://kmr.nada.kth.se/el/ims/metadata.html
[13] http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm

Mark Butler
Research Scientist 
HP Labs Bristol
http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut

Received on Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:09:30 UTC