1. 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

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

3. 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 (* http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/)

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

11. My project vs. previous project

12. Technologies Metadata XML RDF - Resource Description Framework Ontology OAI - Open Archive Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchive sprotocol.html)

13. 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 11-12 Documentation Week 13-14 Finishing

14. Questions? Contact details u4066142@anu.edu.au