ISOcat status
Outline ISOcat forum Thematic Domain Groups Standardization Bulk load data categories Public DCSs Other changes Container data categories Relation Registry CLARIN-NL Helpdesk 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
ISOcat forum – General support forum – A forum for Thematic Domain Group But a TDG (chair) has to request it, so we’ll know the forum will be monitored by the TDG members – A (private) forum for a group Send a request to – Send a forum mediated to the DC owner, a TDG/group member 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Thematic Domain Groups The ISO ballot for TDG members has ended Metadata, Morposyntax and Terminology are still the more active TDGs TDGs in the process of being established: – Translation – Sign languages – Audio 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Standardization The standardization workflow has been implemented – But needs some tweaks – Only TDG members can currently submit DCs for standardization The metadata TDG will start standardizing in October 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Bulk load data categories DCIF Relax NG schema now also contains Schematron rules to fully check data category specifications – Supported by XML editors like oXygen ISOcat can export DCIF – But for large DCSs/profiles this still takes quite long ISOcat can import DCIF – Contact to upload your DCS via 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Public DCSs GOLD ontology: – My Workspace > Public > RELISH > GOLD 2010 But not all concepts make good data categories Upcoming: – ISO 639: language (family) codes Consensus on the PIDs and mapping Needs better handling of large DCSs – TEI Header Needs container data category type 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Other changes DC Reference vocabulary – New dcr:valueDatcat attribute and element <feat name=“gender” dcr:datcat=“…/DC-1297”…/DC-1297 value=“masculine” dcr:valueDatcat=“…/DC- 1883”…/DC /> Many UI fixes – Contact or use the forum to report your own 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
Container data categories At the TC 37 plenary we got the green light to add the container data category type 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status lexicon language alphabet entry lemma writtenForm japanese ipa
Relation Registry Implementation has started September 2010 First focus on RESTful web services for CMDI – – source=dc:language source=dc:language RDF-based quad store – Contact to upload your own set of Which relations? – OWL inspired (ontology): sameAs, distinct, subClassOf/superClassOf – SKOS inspired (taxonomy): broader/narrower, related – Partitive relations (OWL patterns): partOf, directPartOf, indirectPartOf – … 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status
CLARIN-NL Helpdesk Paul van Caspel 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status