Documents

• Proposal submitted to JISC & Becta, Feb 2002 [PDF]
• Review of software for MEG Registry client, May 2002
• Functional requirements
  • Final version, 7 Jun 2002
  • Second Draft, 19 May 2002
  • First Draft, 6 May 2002
• Final report to JISC & Becta, April 2003 [PDF]

Registry

• Prototype, January 2003 N.B. May be reindexed at any time without warning.

Schema creation tool

• Brief overview of MEG Registry client, May 2002
• Design and use MEG Registry client, June 2002
• Download, January 2003

Workshop

• Schema creation workshop, Bath, 21 January 2003

Publications

• Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, Dave Beckett and Damian Steer. The MEG Registry and SCART: complementary tools for creation, discovery and re-use of metadata schemas. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities, 2002, Florence: Firenze University Press, 2002, pp. 125-132.
  PDF: http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/paper14.pdf
  

Presentations

• The MEG metadata schemas registry: a case study [PDF] [Powerpoint]
  Schemas & ontologies: building a semantic infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh. 16 May 2003
• The MEG metadata schemas registry [HTML] [Powerpoint]
  UKOLN Staff Seminar, UKOLN, Bath. 25 June 2003
• The MEG metadata schemas registry
  Presentation to Becta staff, Becta, Coventry. 16 July 2003

Project meetings

• Meeting held at ILRT, Thursday 11 April, 2002. [minutes]
• Meeting held at ILRT, Monday 27 May, 2002. [minutes]

Background

• DESIRE registry
• SCHEMAS registry
• DCMI registry prototypes
• SCHEMAS RDF encodings of schemas/application profiles

See also

• CORES Project

Staff involved

Dave Beckett Technical Researcher (Web Search Environments), ILRT Dave.Beckett@bristol.ac.uk Damian Steer Software Developer, ILRT pldms@mac.com

Rachel Heery Research and Development Team Leader, UKOLN r.m.heery@ukoln.ac.uk Pete Johnston Research Officer, UKOLN p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk