COMP 6701 eScience Project Semantic Web for Museums ___ Initial Student : Yan Wang Client/Technical Supervisor : Tom Worthington Academic Supervisor : Alistair Rendell Period : 2006 Semester 2 Date: 2 August 2006

Outline Introduction Current problems My project vs. previous project Technologies Initial Plan

Introduction The Semantic Web was thought up by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) * Make the web a more collaborative medium. Create a web of data that machines can process (*

Introduction 2 Web Most information on the Web is designed for human-human communication. Semantic web The information not only for human consumption, but also machines would process them.

Metadata Meta-data: description of data; Example : DATA META DATA John Smith Name 32 Moonlight St. Address 50,000 Salary

Metadata 2 Example : John Smith 32 Moonlight St. 50,000

Current problems On the project requirement of Developing a prototype multi-institutional search engine for Australian Indigenous collections, states: Existing search engines such as Google Scholar do not provide the solutions we require …… Full text searches …… are not suitable for two reasons: they do not access most of the database content; and text searches for images, sound or film are ineffective as they do not handle the metadata.

My project vs. previous project

Technologies Metadata XML RDF - Resource Description Framework Ontology OAI - Open Archive Initiative ( sprotocol.html)

Initial Plan Week 3 Background Research Week 4 Study previous project Week 5-6 Modelling the Museum database Week 7-8 Implementation Week 9-10 Testing & debugging Week Documentation Week Finishing

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