Friday with DRC-Dev

Last Friday (July 29) the development team missed a conference call as Peter Murray, our leader at OhioLINK, was sick with walking pneumonia. However we resumed today with use of Gizmo software for conferencing. See www.gizmo.com. Gizmo works fine for 2-3 people, but with an entire group on the line, it was difficult to hear and people got dropped. Perhaps we will return to using Elluminator.

New terms arose today, as seems always to be the case with me! Terms such as
FOXML
RDF - Resource Description Framework
XACML - has to do with access control
semantic web
kowali triples - RDF is structured as a triple or triples. Triples include three pieces of info about an object: the subject, its attributes, and its value.
CBS trees - Complete Binary Search tree

I discovered a great Scientific American article (May 2001) on the semantic web by Tim Berners-Lee et al. Scientific American: The Semantic Web
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities

This helps to explain some of the concepts we discussed today. The goal is to create an institutional repository that will be flexible in describing objects and creating relationships among them, even when they are dissimilar object types or in different "collections."