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The central objective of the CORES project is to encourage the sharing of metadata semantics. CORES will address the need to reach consensus on a data model for declaring semantics of metadata terms in a machine-readable way. Consensus on the ground-rules for declaring standard definitions of terms, as well as local usage and adaptations, will enable the diversity of existing standards to "play together" in an integrated, machine-understandable Semantic Web environment. In order to achieve this level of interoperability, CORES will support applications re-using and adapting terms maintained by key organizations and standardisation initiatives News from CORES
Standards Interoperability Forum CORES will bring together key figures from major standardisation activities in a Standards Interoperability Forum to discuss the practicalities of cross-standard interoperability. The goal will be to discuss the feasibility of building semantic bridges between metadata standards within the framework of the Semantic Web Registry of core vocabularies and profiles CORES will bring the major standardisation groups together with international initiatives that are exploring the use of metadata schema registries. In order to encourage uptake for methods of declaring "profiles" of application-specific usage, CORES will build on the work of SCHEMAS, which defined a model for declaring such usage in Resource Description Framework (RDF). [1] CORES will promote use of this model by a critical mass of projects and services by holding a hands-on "profile-writing" workshop with implementers. Partners
Progress [1] Thomas Baker, Makx Dekkers, Rachel Heery, Manjula Patel, Gauri Salokhe, "What Terms Does Your Metadata Use? Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives", Journal of Digital Information (October 2001), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Baker/ Maintained and hosted by: UKOLN |