Siderean Software, Inc., a Los Angeles-based semantic search company,
has joined the British Library in stepping forward to assist in funding
the DCMI/RDA project. [1] “The efforts of the library community in
developing next-generation standards for cataloging metadata has the
potential to inform the work of the Semantic Web community in ways that
go far beyond its application to libraries,” said Bradley Allen, Founder
and CTO of Siderean. “Siderean is pleased to be able to help out by
providing funding assistance for the DCMI/RDA project.”
The DCMI/RDA effort began in April of 2007, when members of the Joint
Steering Committee for the Development of RDA, Dublin Core and the W3C
Semantic Web Deployment Working Group met in London. At that, two tasks
relating to RDA vocabularies were identified:
1. definition of an RDA Element Vocabulary
2. disclosure on the public web of RDA Value Vocabularies using
RDF/RDFS/SKOS technologies
The RDA Vocabularies Project proposes to surface these underlying
bibliographic elements in the form of Semantic Web vocabularies, thereby
making them reusable in Semantic Web applications and citable with
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). This will be on the basis of RDF
(Resource Description Framework), a generic "grammar" for expressing
data for use not just by humans, but also in automated processes of data
integration and "intelligent" reasoning.
The work will be lead by the DCMI/RDA Task Group, chaired by Gordon
Dunsire of the University of Strathclyde and Diane Hillmann of Syracuse
University. [2]
[1] For more information on Siderean, see: http://www.siderean.com/
[2] For more information on the DCMI/RDA Task Group, see:
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
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