Advanced Development - DSpace
    
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        Semantic Web
        Advanced Development collaboration with the DSpace project 
        
          - Dspace is a joint project of MIT Libraries and HP to
          develop a flexible digital archive designed capture and
          distribute the intellectual output of MIT
 
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        Explore practical deployment issues for Semantic Web and
        metadata applications in a digital library context. 
        
          - Existing RDF data stores and examine effective
          techniques for storing complex metadata in a variety of
          systems.
- expected to field-test proposals (such as the DAML
          RDF/XML datatyping proposal) that are under consideration
          by other W3C groups.
- demonstrate web aggregation services based on
          information syndication technologies such as RSS and
          OAI
 
- Public discussion 
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