SWAD-Europe Technical Workshop, DC-2002: Florence

SWAD-Europe: W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe

Thursday 17th October:

• 11:00-13:00 - RDF and DC Interop (tools, techniques, issues)
• 14:00-15:00 - Joint Session with DC Architecture WG
• 15:00-16:30 - Refining use cases, scenarios, short presentations



SWAD-Europe DC Workshop Goals

Recap: why are we here?

• W3C's Metadata, RDF and SW work share history with DC
• to help Dublin Core practitioners use SW technology...
• ...and help RDF tool developers support the needs of DCMI
• to find partners, scenarios, use cases to ensure SWAD-E is useful
• to build links between DCMI's technical work and the W3C SW effort

Collecting (and answering) FAQs...

SWAD-Europe is about providing answers to questions about RDF, metadata, Semantic Web:

• How do I combine RDF and XML Schema technology?
• What is the state of the art in RDF databases, query languages...?
• What practical techniques are there for combining Dublin Core, educational, multimedia, and rights metadata within a single application?
• Who else is struggling with these issues?

Technical Workshop goals

We aim to...

• collect practical requirements and questions from DC community
• support RDF/DC toolkit maturity through worked scenarios and test cases
• identify RDF toolkit priorities for DC applications

Tools, Techniques, Issues...

• Introductions
• Possible technical topics for discussion, use cases, FAQs:
  • RDF sub-property and DC use cases
  • Community refinement: dc Types, encoding schemes...
  • Internationalization: distributed schema translations
  • RDF tools and DC use cases: full text, datatype search?
  • Aggregation issues: data merging issues (URIs, unambiguous properties)
  • ...

  Discussion...