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XML-Based Schema Languages Why, How, When? Dr Hoylen Sue DSTC Pty Ltd Resource Discovery Unit Open Forum on Metadata Registeries

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Overview zMetadata standards zThe big picture zDeploying metadata and schemas zMetadata tools zWhat we have done zThe issues we faced zW3C RDF efforts zThe future

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XML-BasedSchema LanguagesWhy, How, When?

Dr Hoylen SueDSTC Pty Ltd

Resource Discovery Unit

Open Forum on Metadata Registeries

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The questions

Why?The need for schemas

How?Their use

When?The emerging standards

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OverviewMetadata standards

The big pictureDeploying metadata and schemasMetadata tools

What we have doneThe issues we faced

W3C RDF effortsThe future

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Metadata Standards

Semantic modelsHow the data is modeled

SyntaxHow the data is written down

Element setsWhat data is captured

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Consensus

Semantic modelsYes

SyntaxYes

Element setsNo!

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OverviewMetadata standards

The big pictureDeploying metadata and schemasMetadata tools

What we have doneThe issues we faced

W3C RDF effortsThe future

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Deployment Goals

Software tools

InteroperabilitySemantic Interchange

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Solutions to the unknownCustom developed software

ExpensiveLimits deployment

Generic configurable softwareFlexibleReuse

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In the scheme of things

Generic standards + schemas =

full specification

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SchemasMachine readable descriptionCaptures metadata information

elementsqualifiersschemesontologies and thesauriconstraints

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OverviewMetadata standards

The big pictureDeploying metadata and schemasMetadata tools

What we have doneThe issues we faced

W3C RDF effortsThe future

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Metadata Tools

Generation and editingRepositories or databasesSearch and processing

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DSTC’s Metadata suiteEditors

Reg and ReggieRepositories

HotMetaSearch Interface

HotMeta and HotOIL

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Metadata EditorsSchema basedSupports multiple metadata standards

Dublin Core ANZLIC GILS AGLS EdNA IMS GEM vCard ADMIN

http://metadata.net

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Issues to be addressedInheritance and referencing

Derivative schemasLocal customizations of schemas

Site specific modificationsApplication specific items

GUI elements

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OverviewMetadata standards

The big pictureDeploying metadata and schemasMetadata tools

What we have doneThe issues we faced

W3C RDF effortsThe future

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Current W3C WorkResource Description Framework

(RDF)RDF Working groups

Model and SyntaxSchema

RDF schema working draftXML schema workOther proposals...

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Current statusXML

Syntax standard definedSemantic smorgasbord

RDFModel and syntax stabilizingSchema still being developed

Communitiese.g. Dublin Core

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Our future workAlignment with developing standardsAdvanced constraintsOntologiesInteroperability

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Conclusion

How?Why?When?

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http://metadata.net

http://www.dstc.edu.au/rdu