DataWebs

Data webs

This page contains links and notes relating to our ideas for data webs as a means to collectr and cross-reference scientific research data on the Web.

Contents:

1. Further notes
   1. Repositories from partners
2. Related work
3. References
4. Other links
   1. Resources
   2. Technologies
   3. General articles and commentary
   4. Meetings
   5. Links not yet sorted

See also: DataWebsPlanning, DefiningImageAccessPlanning

1. Further notes

• Data Webs and Web 2.0

1.1. Repositories from partners

Taken from OpenDoar UK listings ...

• Cambridge dspace

• Southampton Eprints

• Imperial Eprints

• Oxford Eprints

Consolidated email addresses of interested partners:

• DataWebEmailList - this page is accessible only to known and recognized users of this wiki.

2. Related work

• Semantic portals

  • http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/index.html - The Semantic Web Environmental Directory (SWED)

  • http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/ - SWAD-E project

  • http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-portal.html - SWAD-E semantic portals page

  • http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/swed_technical_resources.htm - SWED resources, includes link to Semantic Portal toolkit

  • http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/projects/project?search=IUGO - Iugo project summary

  • http://iugo.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ - Iugo project home page

  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=vre_iugo - Iugo JISC page

• http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/shsseri/ - Sidney archaeology project (Ian Johnson, et al)

  • T1000 database wizard might be the right tool for local laboratory data collection

  • http://ispheres.org/iSpheresCore/about.html - iSpheres, a precursor project

• http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/, ... - Haystack, Piggy bank, data lenses

  • [ http://www.w3.org/2005/04/fresnel-info/ - Fresnel development of data lenses

• http://cordra.net/introduction/ - CORDRA: Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture

• http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/bxh114v1.pdf - aDORe: A Modular, Standards-Based Digital Object Repository

• http://jiscstore.jot.com/WikiHome - Source-to-Output Repositories

• Prospero and Jorum (Peter Burnhill; JISC repostories w/shop. I have a note that this may be a good source of user requirements.) Also: "UK repostory junction", INROADS"?

• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/ - "eBank" gets repeated mentions - link to chemical crystallography?

  • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/pilot/ - Chemical crystalography; links to lab data. (Also http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/? - web site down at time of attempted access)

  • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/schemas/feasibility.html - eBank UK Feasibility Report on dataset Description and Schema to access the results of experiments in crystallography

  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_ebankuk - JISC page for eBank project

  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/simoncoleswww2006.ppt - Chemical Crystallography database - Simon Coles' presentation at WWW2006 JISC workshop

• ARC (metadata harvesting)

• Cheshire (Indexing and searching)

• http://www.openarchives.org/ - OAI - Open Archive Initiative

  • http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html - protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH)

• http://www.connotea.org/ - Connotea.

  • http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/10/connotea_is_a_database_1.html - not only a bookmark list - can also be used as a database.

• http://dbin.org/ - DBin. A bit of a variation on data lenses - "brainlets" embody specific rules for interaction with semantic data.

• Rhizome - a bit like semantic wiki?

• Semantic media wiki

• Mindswap tools, especially "PhotoStuff". (Also Swoop, Pellet.)

• IBM work on life science data integration; Lee Feigenbaum, Elias Torres, et al. (Using Javascript, JSON, microtemplates, ...)

• Opennetware (?), thefigtrees web site(?)

• CSW are working on an ontology for cars (cf. Inigo Surguy talk at WWW2006)

• http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf - PREMIS data dictionary for preservation metadata

• http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/ - Subject Portals Project

• http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ - SKOS

• http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/files/dataspacesDec05.pdf - Data spaces (also below)

  • http://www.inf.ethz.ch/news/focus/res_focus/feb_2006 - Personal data spaces

• http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex - OpenLink data spaces

• http://www.intute.ac.uk/ - RDN/Intute

  • http://www.rdn.ac.uk/

  • http://www.intute.ac.uk/development/

  • http://biome.ac.uk/

• http://www-dienst.rl.ac.uk/library/2002/tr/dltr-2002001.pdf - The CLRC Scientific Metadata Model

• http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/images.html - SWAD-E image descriptions

3. References

• From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for Information Management: Michael Franklin, University of California, Berkeley; Alon Halevy, Google Inc. and U. Washington; David Maier, Portland State University. (To Appear in ACM SIGMOD Record December 2005.) http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/files/dataspacesDec05.pdf

• Principles of Dataspace Systems: Alon Halevy, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, halevy@google.com; Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, franklin@cs.berkeley.edu; David Maier, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, maier@cs.pdx.edu. (PODS'06, June 26–28, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA.) http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/files/pods06.pdf

• The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries: Edward M. Corrado, Systems Librarian, The College of New Jersey. http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article2.html

• Searching Dynamic Communities with Personal Indexes: Alexander Löser, Christoph Tempich, Bastian Quilitz, Steffen Staab, Wolf Tilo Balke and Wolfgang Nejdl. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005, Galway. http://cis.cs.tu-berlin.de/~aloeser/publications/iswc2005.pdf

4. Other links

• http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/projects/webarchive/resources.html - web archiving resources

4.1. Resources

• http://www.opendoar.org/ - openDoar

• JISC links:

  • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories - Digital repositories programme

4.2. Technologies

• http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/tools.htm - HPLabs Jena and related tools (inc Semantic Portal software link)

• http://darq.sourceforge.net/ - Bastian Quilitz' federated SPARQL queries

• http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/D2RQ/ - D2RQ, D2R server and friends; SPARQL queries to relational data

• http://jena.sourceforge.net/SquirrelRDF/ - SquirrelRDF

• SPARQL, GRDDL, SKOW, RDFa (collection from Eric Miller talk)

• http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2004/PythonLib-IH/xmp.py?rev=1.5 - Ivan Herman's XMP metadata extractor

• http://norman.walsh.name/2006/09/13/photodata - Norman Walsh on JPEG metadata annotations

• Repositories:

  • http://www.eprints.org/

  • http://www.fedora.info/

  • http://www.dspace.org/

• OAI

  • http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html - OAI-PMH

  • http://www.infrae.com/products/oaipack, http://www.oclc.org/research/software/oai/2page.htm, http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/2003-July/000938.html - python software links

• Repository search:

  • Z39.50

    • http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/resources/software.html - Z39.50 resources.

    • http://www.indexdata.com/yazproxy/ - Z39.50 prozy, supports web access

  • SRW/SRU

4.3. General articles and commentary

• http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/05/data_webs_1.html - Timo Hannay's Nature blog on nascent data webs

• http://dannyayers.com/2004/07/missingwebs.htm - Danny Ayers' "missing webs" article

• http://www.rgrossman.com/data-webs.htm - Robert Grossman's earlier use of the term "data webs", which appears to be a similar but more broadly scoped set of ideas.

• Alon Halevy et al Dataspaces...

• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/resource-discovery-review/ - The JISC Resource Discovery Landscape, Andy Powell

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fair_synthesisintro.html - FAIR synthesis

4.4. Meetings

• http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-webs - RIN data webs meeting page

  • http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001375.html - BLOG entry summarizing the day

• http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track - W3C track at WWW2006; lots of interesting slide sets here.

• http://www.w3.org/2006/03/ubiweb-workshop-summary - Ubiquitous web workshop report

• http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/ - SWAD-E final workshop

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/www2006_repositories.html - JISC WWW2006 repositories workshop

4.5. Links not yet sorted

• http://www.openacademia.org - ??

• http://ontoware.org/projects/swrc/ - ??

• http://jpf.sourceforge.net/ - ??

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-- GrahamKlyne 2006-07-05 13:13:21