Simile%20and%20the%20Semantic%20Web

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Simile and the Semantic Web

• Stephen Garland
• David Karger
• Oxygen Alliance Annual Meeting
• June 17, 2004

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Looking for Information
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Whats Wrong? (Partial List)
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The Simile Project

• Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and
  Information in unLike Environments
• Goals
• Inter-operability among digital assets
• Support for arbitrary schemata and metadata
• Challenges
• Uniform, but adaptable, interface for browsing
  and searching
• Quantity/quality of metadata (ambiguity,
  inconsistency)
• Scaling (size of datasets, multiple schemata)
• Approach
• Leverage and extend DSpace
• RDF and semantic web techniques