LOM RDF WG

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IEEE P1484.12.4 LTSC LOM RDF Binding WG Jon
Mason LTSC Meeting Seattle, USA June 19, 2002
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Agenda

• Introduction first f2f meeting
• Membership
• Current status
• Issues identified
• Workplan
• Next LTSC LOM meetings
• September 16-21, 2002
• Lawrence, Kansas USA

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Introduction

• This is first f2f meeting
• Agreed action from Adelaide (March 2002)
  meeting - provide a workplan at Seattle
  meeting - PAR accepted
• Ad hoc meeting at W3C - intention to progress
  drafting ASAP
• Email reflector established ltsc-lom-rdf_at_majordo
  mo.ieee.org

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Membership

• Jon Mason Erik Duval
• Mikael Nilsson Wayne Hodgins
• Matthias Palmér Robby Robson
• Wolfgang Nejdl Alex Voichenko
• Stefan Decker Thomas Enzi
• Eric Miller Bernd Simon
• Albert Ip 
• Norm Friesen
• Ryan Laundry

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P1484.12.4 RDF binding PAR (Approved by LOM WG)

• SCOPE
• This standard specifies a W3C RDF (Resource
  Description Format) binding of the IEEE 1484.12.1
  data model.
• An implementation that conforms to 1484.12.4 must
  conform to 1484.12.1.
• PURPOSE
• The purpose of this standard is to provide the
  RDF binding to enable the exchange of LOM
  instances between conforming systems that
  implement the 1484.12.1 data model.

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Status

• Drawing from existing work
• IMShttp//www.imsglobal.org/rdf
• Mikael Nilssons draftshttp//kmr.nada.kth.se/e
  l/ims/md-lomrdf.html - Dublin Core vCard
• RDF Schema Registry (FORTH Institute)http//139
  .91.183.309090/RDF/Examples.html

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Issues

• In terms of binding
• - semantics of RDFS (Nilsson still early)
• - RDF for DC, DCQ, LOM (following Ottawa)
• Other (macro) comments
• - whats the utility?
• - hasnt the W3C learned from decades of Prolog
• - RDF will not scale

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Workplan

• Work already commenced - identification of
  existing relevant work- identification of
  problems requiring resolution- drafting
  underway- aiming for review of draft by Kansas

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Action Items