RDF Panel Session

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RDF Panel Session

• UKOLN
• University of Bath
• Bath, BA2 7AY
• http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/

UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research
and Innovation Centre, the Joint Information
Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding
Councils, as well as by project funding from the
JISCs Electronic Libraries Programme and the
European Union. UKOLN also receives support from
the University of Bath where it is based.
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Panelists

• Lorcan Dempsey, UKOLN Director
• Renato Iannella, DSTC Pty Ltd
• Brian Kelly, UKOLN
• Dan Brickley, ILRT, University of Bristol
• Andy Powell, UKOLN
• Rachel Heery, UKOLN

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Aims of the Seminar

• To recap the aims of the seminar were
• to raise awareness of RDF
• to establish route for contributing to
  development of the RDF specifications
• to raise awareness of schema mechanism in RDF and
  discuss how this might be used in our communities
• to establish forum for those interested in
  experimenting with RDF

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Issues
Technical Issues
Schemas
RDF Specifications
Resourcing
Tools
Deployment
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Questions For Discussion

• General
• Is it timely to start using RDF yet? After all,
  the specifications are still not final, browser
  support is not yet available, ?
• How are schemas to be deployed? Are they left to
  the major players (Microsoft, Netscape, etc.) to
  develop, developed by individual projects and
  services or by groups?

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Questions For Discussion

• Tools
• What tools are needed?
• What models for creating / maintaining metadata
  should we be using?
• Deployment
• Can anyone suggest a useful pilot project to
  demonstrate the benefits of RDF, establish
  resource implications, etc?