- From: Phil Archer <phil.archer@icra.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:14:09 -0000
- To: "W3C Pics Interest" <pics-interest@w3.org>, "W3C RDF Interest Group" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Dear all, Some of you will have seen signs of this coming a few weeks back - here's the official kick off. Recently two parallel projects were launched, one in Yokohama by IA Japan and another in Luxembourg by us at ICRA. We expect the two projects to be merged since the goals are more or less identical - namely to harness the strengths of RDF to create a truly cross-media platform through which multiple classification vocabularies can be applied to multiple media types through a wide variety of devices. The project is pretty wide ranging and having laid the foundation stones, we're now seeking further participation and support. We plan to work closely with W3C on relevant issues throughout and will use these mailing lists where appropriate. For instance, as highlighted recently, we're looking at the issue of linkage - resources to descriptions, descriptions to multiple resources. The approach set out for P3P, which uses Policy Reference Files, looks like a good place to start. We're also thinking along the lines that since the object in an RDF triple can be a string literal, that string could be a Regular Expression against which a suite of URIs could be matched (howls of protest all round, I know, but trust me, in this arena, we need it). You can see a full briefing paper on the Luxembourg end of the project at www.icra.org/cprdf/project_briefing.htm. Phil Archer Internet Content Rating Association
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