SWAD-Europe Workshop, DC-2002: Florence
SWAD-Europe: W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe
SWAD-Europe is a five partner EC-funded project created to support
W3C's Semantic Web Activity in Europe.
- Goals for this Workshop
- Logistics
- Introduction to SWAD-Europe
SWAD-Europe DC Workshop Goals
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
Workshop Logistics
- Wednesday: General Introduction (14:00-15:00)
- Dan Brickley (Project Overview)
- Charles McCathieNevile
- Dave Beckett
- Libby Miller
- Thursday: Technical Workshop
- 11:00-13:00 - RDF and DC Interop (tools and techniques)
- 14:00-15:00 - Joint Session with DC Architecture WG
- 15:00-16:30 - Use cases, scenarios, short presentations
SWAD-Europe Overview
SWAD-Europe...
- ...is a 5 partner collaborative EU project
- ...originated within W3C's SW Activity
- ...extends SWAD(-MIT) previous development model
- ...is about and in support of W3C's SW Activity, but managed independently.
- ...complements and feeds into 'standards track' work
Project Partners
- W3C
- ILRT / University of Bristol (project management)
- Hewlett Packard
- Stilo
- CCLRC / RAL
Project Goals
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Implement scenario-led examples showing the integration of
multiple Semantic Web technologies.
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Develop a Semantic Web technology integration strategy that
emphasises the utility of XML languages (SVG, MathML etc)
as complementary rather than competing
components of the Web.
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Ensure that European Community is kept aware of
international best practice for SW technology,
and that best practice within Europe is recognised internationally.
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Undertake targeted research and development in support of
these objectives.
Milestones and Results
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Delivered a series of research demonstrations showcasing
Semantic Web technology for consumer and industrial
applications
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Created a methodology demonstrating the integration of RDF
and Semantic Web tools with a range of XML and Web
standards
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Facilitated SW technology maturation, aiding the
deployment of Semantic Web-enhanced Web Services
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Deployed an education and outreach programme
In Simpler Terms...
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?
Work areas
- RDF/SW and XML Integration
- Web Services and Semantic Web
- Scalability, APIs and Query Languages
- Trust; Thesauri; Annotations
- Visualisation and Accessibility
- Demonstrators and worked examples
- Outreach... to developers, content producers, researchers and
practitioners...
SWAD-Europe and W3C
SWAD-Europe provides resources to...
- contribute test suite materials (eg. for scalability testing)
- sponsor and lead Interest Group task forces (eg. query, thesaurus, calendar)
- generate proposals that could feed into standards-track work (APIs?)
- create supporting materials (FAQs, worked examples, 'hot topics', online tools, primers)
SWAD-Europe and Dublin Core
Beginning at DC-2002, SWAD-Europe will...
- 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
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