Group 4 – Common tools and standards

Tasks & Use Cases

• JISC needs to delineate and decide with community what it means & scope– Making what exists more available

• Possibly in a reduced form• Mapping and Development of Common access

– Making it easier to build new ontologies• Ownership with community

– Community based terminology building

– Evolution and adaptation

The Meta Model

• Can we/Need we produce standard representations and APIs– What level is Development? Research?

• What is known about interconversion of standards

• Can we create a common meta model

A central source for Terminologies for creation

Metadata

• One of the key drivers – implied but seldom mentioned

• Convergence of Literature and Data

H2H, H2M

• The requirements are different

• May conflict

Bridging communities/Sectors

• E-Science/Science/CS/Semantic Web

• Information Environment/Digital Libraries/KOS

• Gap analysis – JISC’s role