Thursday, 6 March

10.30-11.00

Registration and Coffee

11.00-11.10

Welcome to SZTAKI
Laszlo Kovacs, Head of Dept of Distributed Systems, MTA SZTAKI

11.10-11.30

CORES Project Update
Makx Dekkers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Luxembourg
[HTML] [PPT]

11.30-12.15

Schema Registries and Context
Rachel Heery, UKOLN
[HTML] [PPT]

12.15-12.45

Overview of CORES architecture and introductory demonstration
Pete Johnston, UKOLN
[HTML] [PPT]

12.45-13.45

Lunch

13.45-14.00

Practical session: Introduction to browsing the CORES Registry
Background [HTML]
Exercise 1 [HTML]

14:00-15.00

Introduction to RDF and RDF Schema
Tom Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
[HTML] [PPT]

15:00-15.15

Coffee

15:15-16.00

The Registry Data Model and its expression in RDF
Pete Johnston, UKOLN
[HTML] [PPT]

16.00-16.30

Discussion/Questions

Friday, 7 March

09.30-10.00

Creating Schemas for the Registry: A Walk-Through
Pete Johnston, UKOLN
Exercise 2 [HTML]

10.00-10.45

Practical session: Element Sets
Rachel Heery, UKOLN
Exercise 3 [HTML]

10.45-11.00

Coffee

11.00-11.45

Practical session: Application Profiles
Tom Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Exercise 4 [HTML]

11.45-12.45

Some Other Tools for Authoring and Browsing RDF
Pete Johnston, UKOLN & Andras Micsik, MTA SZTAKI
[HTML] [PPT]

12.45-13.45

Lunch

13.45-14.15

Review of other registries
Rachel Heery, UKOLN
[HTML] [PPT]

14.15-14.30

Use of a schema registry to support metadata instance creation
Ryan Laundry, GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials)/University of Washington
GEM R&D server

14:30-15.30

Structured Discussion and Feedback
Facilitated by Makx Dekkers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg