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Elena Demidova

University of Osnabrück

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Abstract

Cashmere-int is aimed at an active participation in standards development in the context of the Semantic Web and their transmission into the academic field. The goals of the

transmission are the promotion of standards and their implementation in new services as well as motivation of other scientists to actively participate in the international

standardization in the field of web technologies.

Promotion of standards is made by means of newsletter publishing, creation of tutorials, and competence centre (Wiki). Participation in question and answer service AskDCMI is planed.

Infrastructure of Cashmere-int includes web server and Wiki collaboration platform, which allow developing of an extendable knowledge base in the area of standardization.

Another effort to promote acceptance of metadata standards is encoding of Dublin Core metadata in example applications like homepage generator MMM.Persons, Thesis Online Broker TheO and Mathematics Metadata Markup MMM. MMM and MMM.Persons tools were extended to allow RDF encoding of Dublin Core metadata.

Cashmere is trying also to transmit requirements of the users for standards and implementation to the international standardization level. This includes our efforts to reactivate the tool group in DCMI.

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Content

• Infrastructure of the competence centre

• Encoding of DC metadata in example applications

• Question and answer service AskDCMI

• DCMI Tools Working Group

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Users

Competence centre: Infrastructure Competence centre: Infrastructure

• Wiki: an expert collaboration platform

• Newsletter

– English and German versions of each article published.

http://www.iwi-iuk.org/cashmere/htdocs/html/newsletter/newsletter.en.shtml http://www.iwi-iuk.org/cashmere/htdocs/html/newsletter/newsletter.shtml

• Forum interface (planed)

– possibility to ask questions.

• FAQ (planed)

Newsletter FAQ

Wiki

Forum Forum

Cashmere-int Team

External

experts

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Competence centre: Wiki Competence centre: Wiki

• Advantages of Wiki:

– Platform independent work in a web browser.

– Creating and editing of the content by the group members.

– Easy way of the publication of the results.

• Lots of Wiki implementations are freely available on the web.

• We choosen TWiki

• URL: http://www.twiki.org/

Wiki: an expert collaboration platform

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Competence centre: Newsletter Competence centre: Newsletter

English and German versions of each article are published.

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Content

• Infrastructure of the competence centre

• Encoding of DC metadata in example applications

• Question and answer service AskDCMI

• DCMI Tools Working Group

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Encoding of DC Metadata Encoding of DC Metadata

• Example applications

– MMM.Persons: Homepage Generator – TheO: Thesis Online Broker

– MMM: Mathematics Metadata Markup

• Tool-page

– http://www.iwi-iuk.org/cashmere/htdocs/html/tools/tools.en.shtml

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MMM.Persons

MMM.Persons : : Homepage Generator Homepage Generator

MMM.Persons 2.2 –

Math-Net Meta Maker for Persons

• It makes qualified search for information about persons possible.

• It is based upon the international standards in WWW such as Dublin Core Metadata, vCard, RDF, XML.

• The base task this tool performs is to create a

standardized and a valid XHTML, MathML, SVG &

RDF documents.

• MMM.Persons was extended in Cashmere-int to allow encoding of DC Metadata in RDF.

http://www.inf-eng.org/cgi-bin/infeng/MMM/MMMPersons/MMMPers2.2.cgi

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MMM.Persons

MMM.Persons : : Homepage Generator Homepage Generator

HTML

HTML File RDF File

contains DC Metadata

User

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TheO TheO : Thesis Online Broker : Thesis Online Broker

• TheO is the acronym for Theses Online. TheO is a search machine for theses submitted in various

German universities. The system is based on Harvest-NG. The system is originally meant for collecting theses from German universities and summarizing it and storing it in a common format.

• TheO provides a WWW – query able interface. The system is an IWI installation developed and

maintained by the working group of

Scientific/Mathematical information at the department of Mathematics/Computer science of the University of Osnabrück. The gathering process is done

periodically for every 30 days.

• URL: http://www.iwi-iuk.org/dienste/TheO/

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MMM:

MMM: Mathematics Metadata Mathematics Metadata Markup Markup

Mathematics Metadata Markup 3.2

• The interface of MMM tool version 3.2 creates index files for mathematical preprints and published

articles. The created file contains RDF Metadata which are useful for search engines to retrieve and provide documentation for the paper.

• URL: http://www.inf-eng.org/cgi-bin/infeng/MMM/MMMPress/MMM3.2.cgi

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Content

• Infrastructure of the competence centre

• Encoding of DC metadata in example applications

• Question and answer service AskDCMI

• DCMI Tools Working Group

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AskDCMI AskDCMI

• Question and answer service AskDCMI

• Introduced by DCMI in 2003

• URL:

http://askdcmi.askvrd.org/

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Content

• Infrastructure of the competence centre

• Encoding of DC metadata in example applications

• Question and answer service AskDCMI

• DCMI Tools Working Group

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Tool Group in DCMI Tool Group in DCMI

Reactivation of the DCMI Tools Working Group

• The group was initiated for 2 years by Roland

Schwänzl, Harry Wagner and Heike Neuroth. We

want to bring it to live again. There will be a DC-Tools Brainstorming within this workshop.

• URL: http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/

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Thank you!