the resource description framework and its application to thegateway.org
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The Resource Description Framework
And its application to thegateway.org
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Where we’ll go…
Brief tour of thegateway.orgCurrent state of the project GEMcat 4.0GEM2RDF
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www.thegateway.org
A really big experiment in self-cataloging.
A consortial effort to provide a directory to quality educational materials on the web.
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Behind the scenes:
Content providers and consortium members catalog and embed metadata
Register URIs with GEM
Harvester crawls the metadata, builds database.
GEM1 data is html meta tags.
Descriptors based on Dublin Core + GEM qualifiers:
www.geminfo.org/Workbench/Metadata
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Next steps:
Implement z39.50Blue Angel
Implement new data formatRDF
Release new cataloging moduleGEMcat 4?
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What is RDF?
A model for representing metadataA syntax for encoding and transporting this
metadata.
value of the propertyStuff in the world
property of stuff
Subject Predicate Object
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So what does it look like?
<rdf:Description
rdf:about = "http://someplace.edu">
<interest_level>
Really Interesting
</interest_level>
</rdf:Description>
Subject
Predicate
Object
And that is the entire model.
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Dublin Core in RDF<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://some_URI”>
<dc:title>Expressing Dublin Core with RDF</dc:title>
<dc:creator> Eric Miller </dc:creator> <dc:subject> Dublin Core; RDF; XML </dc:subject>
<dc:publisher> Dublin Core Metadata Initiative </dc:publisher>
<dc:contributor>Dublin Core Data Model Working Group </dc:contributor>
<dc:date> 1999-07-01 </dc:date>
<dc:format> text/html </dc:format> <dc:language> en </dc:language> </rdf:Description>
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Structured entities
Well, there are complications…
<rdf:Description rdf:about = "http://some_uri">
<dc:creator>
<rdf:Description>
<gem:person value="Jon Jab" />
<gem:email value="[email protected]" />
</rdf:Description>
</dc:creator>
</rdf:Description>
Jon Jabjonjab@
u.wash.edu
http://some_uri
dc:creator
gem:persongem:email
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Same approach for Statements about Statements
<dc:relation>
<gem:isChildOf>
<rdf:value>
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
</rdf:value>
<rdfs:label>
Lesson Plan Archive
</rdfs:label>
</gem:isChildOf>
</dc:relation>
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Controlled language & encoding schemes
<rdf:Description rdf:about="s3">
<gem:ERIC rdf:about="http://128.208.100.148/ thesauri/eric?Secondary_Education">
<rdf:value>Secondary Education</rdf:value>
</gem:ERIC>
</rdf:Description>
<gem:recordcreated>
<gem:iso8601_1988>
<rdf:value>1999-09-02T13:35:29-5:00</rdf:value>
</gem:iso8601_1988>
</gem:recordcreated>
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Eventually, things get silly…
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Links
rdf parser from w3.org RDF Model and Syntax Specification RDF Schema Specification 1.0 RDF homepage Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF The Gateway to Educational Materials GEMinfo (about the Gateway)
This presentation: www.whatsgrowing.com/jon/docs/asis_rdf.ppt