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CORES -A Forum on shared metadata vocabularies

Introduction

The CORES project is funded within the Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme, under Key Action 3 managed by the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission.

The IST Project Factsheet on CORES is available in the RTD Projects Database of CORDIS at:
<URL:http://www.cordis.lu/ist/projects.htm> [no longer available 2006-0802]

More detailed information about the CORES project can be found on the project's website [no longer available 2006-08-02]

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

Project partners with UKOLN:

• Project Coordinator:PricewaterhouseCoopers, Luxembourg (PwC)

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) (FhG)
• Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)

Work on CORES at UKOLN:

UKOLN is contributing to all workpackages in the CORES project. A brief description of the work being led by UKOLN follows, and links to selected public documents and deliverables will be added as they become available.

WP2: Declaring core vocabularies and profiles

UKOLN will lead this work package. 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.

UKOLN staff working on the CORES project:

Pete Johnston

Interoperability Officer
E-mail: p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk

Manjula Patel

Technical Research and Development
E-mail: m.patel@ukoln.ac.uk

Rachel Heery

Assistant Director (Team Leader, Research & Development)
E-mail: r.m.heery@ukoln.ac.uk