[rak-list] DCMI/RDA Task Group beginnt mit der Arbeit

[Bernhard Eversberg]

siehe insbes.:   http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
           und    http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/RDAVocab
Was seinerzeit die Arbeitsgruppe "Codes" versucht hat, findet sich
hier als aehnlicher Ansatz: man definiert Standard-Vokabularien für
alle die Fälle, wo man eine Liste von festgelegten Bezeichnungen
braucht. Keine Codes also, aber wenn es sich um feste Wortlisten
handelt, kann man natürlich Konkordanzen machen.


Hier die Originalmitteilung von D.I. Hillmann:

Announcement: Work Begins on the RDA Vocabularies

The DCMI/RDA Task Group was formed in April of 2007, when members of the 
Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA, Dublin Core and the 
W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group met in London. At that 
meeting, two tasks relating to RDA vocabularies were identified:
1.   definition of an RDA Element Vocabulary
2.        disclosure on the public web of RDA Value Vocabularies using 
RDF/RDFS/SKOS technologies

The RDA Vocabularies Project proposes to surface these underlying 
bibliographic elements in the form of Semantic Web vocabularies, thereby 
making them reusable in Semantic Web applications and citable with 
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).  This will be based on RDF 
(Resource Description Framework), a generic grammar for expressing data 
for use not just by humans, but also in automated processes of data 
integration and "intelligent" reasoning.

The work will be lead by the DCMI/RDA Task Group chairs: Gordon Dunsire 
of the University of Strathclyde and Diane Hillmann of Cornell 
University (with support from Tom Baker of the Dublin Core Metadata 
Initiative). Other participants working closely with the project are:
*       Karen Coyle (independent consultant well known in the library world)
*    Alistair Miles (editor for the Simple Knowledge Organization System 
(SKOS) and member of the W3C SWDWG)
*         Mikael Nilsson (researcher in the Knowledge Management 
Research Group, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and co-chair of 
the DCMI Architecture Forum)

Partial funding for the effort has been secured, and sources of 
additional funding are still being sought.  Potential funders should 
contact Diane Hillmann at dih1 at cornell.edu for further information.

Public information on the progress of the project is available on the 
DCMI/RDA Task Group wiki, see: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ . 
  Continuing discussion on the work of the Task Group will take place on 
the public mailing list maintained by the task group and available for 
open subscription at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-rda.html . 
Feedback, comment and experimentation with the products that the group 
will be presenting is both welcome and essential to the success of the work.