Steve,
I remembered you mentioned a paper in a previous post re. RESULTs.
Can't find it, tried JISC website too. The project website
(www.results.ac.uk) is no longer accessible. Can you forward any
reference? I would check out again the postings on "folksonomies" on
this list for more details.
Boon
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Boon Low
System Developer, EGEE Training
UK National e-Science Centre
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/boon
On 30 Jun 2005, at 12:18, Steve Richardson wrote:
> Sorry Boon,
> see RESULTs ... again!
> This is exactly what we did!
> All the best
> Steve
>
>
> Boon Low wrote:
>
>
>> This is an interesting development and along the line of HTML
>> (presentation) to XML (structural) evolution.
>>
>> We have recently started to pilot a repository/testbed (based on
>> Fedora) for the training requirements of an European grid
>> computing project. Definitely have needs for an alternative
>> approach towards metadata provision (there isn't a dedicated
>> cataloguing team c.f. traditional libraries), especially to
>> enable collaborative input (and localisation) of metadata and
>> digital objects among distributed project partners.
>>
>> Instead staring into empty metadata pages, may be a good strategy
>> would be to provide a transparent infrastructure for people to
>> enhance and contribute metadata at ease, in wikipedia fashion.
>> Service-orientation means what people put into the repository
>> they could reuse/links to for other contexts too via the
>> protocols Lorcan has mentioned (OpenURL and SRU). So, putting
>> "edit" links to turn metadata pages into editable forms
>> (containers for metadata, instead of tags!) would probably get a
>> thumbs up here.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Boon
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Boon Low
>> System Developer, EGEE Training
>> UK National e-Science Centre
>> http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/boon
>>
>> On 29 Jun 2005, at 13:41, Dempsey,Lorcan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes. We are looking at renaming it Wiki-D (Wiki-Data) both
>>> because of name clashes and to make it more descriptive.
>>>
>>> We hope it is of general interest. Jeff is working through some
>>> last-minute issues and with vacation (aka holiday) we are
>>> looking at some time in next couple of months for general release.
>>>
>>> One use will be to capture user input in our OpenWorldCat
>>> initiative http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000676.html
>>>
>>> It uses OpenURL 1.0, OAI, and SRU to tie things together. Three
>>> approaches which seem to be emerging as a core of many newer
>>> developments in the digital library space. http://
>>> orweblog.oclc.org/ archives/000654.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lorcan
>>>
>>>
>>> Lorcan Dempsey [http://orweblog.oclc.org]
>>> OCLC Research [http://www.oclc.org/research/]
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: The CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group [mailto:CETIS-
>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Powell
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:20 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Living Taxonomy
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Scott Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> A wiki is an interesting approach to collaboratively developing
>>>> taxonomies, but you're right, its not an easy way to acquire a
>>>> binding
>>>> of the taxonomy for use.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff Young and Thom Hickey at OCLC have been working on
>>> something called a MetaWiki (though I think the branding is
>>> about to change) which offers structured interfaces to
>>> structured Wiki content...
>>>
>>> http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/metawiki/default.htm
>>>
>>> I understand that the source code for this stuff will be
>>> rreleased in the fairly near future...
>>>
>>> Andy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 28 Jun 2005, at 15:42, Pierre Gorissen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I would be interested in hearing if you metadata experts think
>>>>> this
>>>>> is a good approach.
>>>>> I was just posting about this on my blog
>>>>> (http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/item/2005/6/28/levende-
>>>>> taxonomie-n)
>>>>> when Scott mailed this. The post is in Dutch, so most of you
>>>>> won't be
>>>>> able to understand it but summarised the remarks I make are:
>>>>> * why have living taxonomies if we have folksonomy/tags? Will the
>>>>> people that want taxonomies also want to use a possibly often
>>>>> changing taxonomy?
>>>>> * wikis are not good to store structured information, the current
>>>>> format means I have to cut and paste each individual taxonomy-
>>>>> value.
>>>>> Use of RSS (possibly with the new proposed Simple List Extensions
>>>>> Specification) or VDEX as a format to provide the taxonomies would
>>>>> have made this (much) easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pierre Gorissen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: Scott Wilson
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:14 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Living Taxonomy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FYI:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://livingtaxonomy.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The Living Taxonomy Project is a collaborative effort aimed at
>>>>>> creating a global set of open source, standards-based
>>>>>> taxonomies for
>>>>>> education. The purpose of these taxonomies will be to provide
>>>>>> a free
>>>>>> cataloging structure for the collection and sharing of
>>>>>> education materials around the world."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - SOp deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Andy
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