Description
Project Context:Mr Tom Worthington presented a week long workshop on the use of technology for museums of the Pacific islands region in July 2005. One of the recommendations made following the workshop was to investigate building an on-line repository of materials from across the Pacific. In second semester 2005, Kwok Chung, a computer science student at ANU undertook a six months project to investigate how this could be done using the Semantic Web. A prototype was produced, which showed that further work on this approach would be worthwhile. The Semantic Web and a digital repository could provide museums a more flexible way to catalog their materials and share digital representations of it.
Semantic Web:
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming.
“The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” — Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001 (link) Thanks to Tom Worthington
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