A metadata registry for the Semantic Web

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Heery, Rachel ^a   Wagner, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Office of Research   (United States)

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EID: 0012453499     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/may2002-wagner     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. The DARPA Agent Markup Language is accessible at .
2. The Ontology Interface Layer is accessible at .
3. Source code for the registry applications is available at .
4. The registry working group archives are available at .
5. The prototypes are accessible at .
6. Java is developed using Sun's Java Community Process. This process is dedicated to open standards and has many similarities to open-source, but is not technically considered open-source.
7. One of the known requirements for the metadata registry is that it be multilingual, both from a user interface (UI) and a data perspective. All three of the prototypes were written with this requirement in mind, and several different approaches were used. The Dublin Core element set is currently translated into fourteen different languages, of which six were selected to serve as proof of concept. The selected languages include those comprised of both single and double byte character sets (i.e., Spanish and Japanese). Due to the cost of the translations, and the temporary nature of the prototypes, only portions of the data and user interface (enough to serve as proof of concept) were translated in each application.
8. The Stanford API is accessible at .
9. The IMS Global Consortium, Inc. () is an organization committed to the development and promotion of metadata standards related to various aspects of distributed learning.
10. PostgreSQL is accessible at .
11. The ResourceBundle class documentation () is a good source of information regarding resource bundles and their use.
12. This was done as a temporary measure. A more practical approach for a production version of this prototype would be to store the URL of the registered schemas and load them via the network at system startup.
13. A limited degree of searching is still possible due to the internal search function provided with most Web browsers.
14. Jena is accessible at .
15. The ARP Parser is accessible at .
16. BerkeleyDB is accessible at .
17. W3C Semantic Web Activity Group. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
18. Resource Description Framework (RDF). Accessed February 11, 2002. .
19. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification 1.0. W3C Candidate Recommendation 27 March 2000. Work in progress. .
20. RDFCore Working Group. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
21. W3C Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
22. DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language. Accessed January 14, 2002. .
23. ISO/IEC 11179-1:1999 Specification and standardization of data elements. Part 1: Framework for the specification and standardization of data elements (available in English only). International Standards Organisation.
24. National Health Information Knowledgebase. Hosted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
25. Environmental Data Registry. Accessed February 8, 2002. .
26. The XML Registry hosted by OASIS. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
27. MetaForm: Database containing Dublin Core manifestations and other metadata formats. Hosted at the State and University Library in Goettingen. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
28. SWAG Dictionary. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
29. LEXML: Open Source Development of an RDF Dictionary. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
30. SCHEMAS Forum for Metadata Implementors Registry. Accessed February 11, 2002. .
31. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. DCMI Registry Working Group. Accessed January 14, 2002. .
32. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative DCMI Registry Functional Requirements. Rachel Heery. Accessed January 10, 2002. .
33. OCLC Office of Research. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Extensible Open RDF Toolkit. Accessed January 14, 2002. .
34. World Wide Web Consortium. RDF Schema for the RDF Data Model. Accessed January 15, 2002. .
35. Sun Microsystems. Internationalization. Accessed January 15, 2002. .