On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Dan Brickley wrote:
> The msg below describes some work beginning within the IMS world on
> binding their educational metadata spec to RDF.
Dan,
just out of interest, do you know if the intention of the IMS folk is to
replace their current XML binding with an RDF/XML one? Or is this an
additional binding? (Or haven't they made a decision yet!?).
Andy.
> RDF/DC implementors,
> please take a look at this. Anybody interested in working on this, do
> let me know, and also do consider sending a summary of implementor
> feedback to these lists. Interoperability with
> educational metadata has long been on the Dublin Core agenda. Now that
> the DC in RDF work is progressing again [1], I believe this new work
> within the IMS community is very timely. RDF was created to allow fine
> grained mixing of metadata constructs from different communities of
> expertise. Or so we've always said. It's time we put some of those grand
> claims to the test...
>
> Dan
>
> [1] http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/dcqual/qual21.3.1/
>
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> pps. I'll forward a follow up message too, though I'm wary of
> spawning a huge crossposted thread.
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> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:57:41 -0500
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> Subject: RDF binding, Java::IMS MD-Interoperability
>
> Posted by: Mikael Nilsson
>
> I have the pleasure to announce the creation of an IMS-RDF binding
> effort.
>
> I have gathered some people willing to work on an RDF binding for IMS
> metadata, and early attempts at an RDF Schema for this already exist.
>
> The people thus far involved are
>
> Mikael Nilsson <[log in to unmask]> (me)
> Wolfgang Nejdl <[log in to unmask]>
> Boris Wolf <[log in to unmask]>
> Hadhami Dhraief <[log in to unmask]>
> Jan Brase <[log in to unmask]>
>
> but anyone at all interested are encouraged to join. We need all help we
> can get, as an RDF binding can be done in a number of different ways, and
> we are a bit short on time. Please comment on our work.
>
> The project has a primitive homepage under
>
> http://www.nada.kth.se/~mini/ims/
>
> where the draft binding and schema will be posted in time.
>
> I would like to know from the WG leaders what documents we need to produce.
> Will we need a separate RDF binding document, similar to the XML binding?
> And what is a realistic timeframe if we want this binding to go into the
> 1.2 spec? I would be inclined to believe that it is not that critical if
> the public draft in May is not 100% polished, as noone depends that
> critically on this binding (like SCORM for the XML binding). Thus we do not
> need a 100% finished version until august. Am I right?
>
> [... snip ...]
>
> Mikael Nilsson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Centre for user-oriented IT-design,
> Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
>
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