Pete,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please keep us in the loop as
much as is possible. Any opportunities to collaborate would be most
welcome.
Best Wishes,
Harry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Johnston [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Development of MEG registry
>
>
> This may be of interest to some DCMI registry folks:
>
> UKOLN and ILRT are working to enhance the metadata schemas registry
> which is provided to support the Metadata for Education Group
> (MEG). To
> date, that has made use of the prototype registry created by
> the DESIRE
> project:
>
> http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/
>
> The proposed registry has some similarities to the DCMI registry as it
> suggests an approach based on indexing RDF schemas which may be
> distributed as XML documents on the Web. It differs from the DCMI
> registry in that there is an significant emphasis on "application
> profiles".
> The software development work is being undertaken by Dave Beckett and
> Damian Steer at ILRT.
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/regproj/
>
> The work is at an early stage and there's not much information on that
> page at the moment, but a first draft of a "Functional Requirements",
> which was influenced by earlier work by the DESIRE and
> SCHEMAS projects,
> is available at:
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/regproj/funcreq.html
>
> Cheers
> Pete
> -------
> Pete Johnston
> Interoperability Research Officer
> UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
> tel: +44 (0)1225 383619 fax: +44 (0)1225 386838
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/p.johnston/
>
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