DefiningImageAccess/Presentation
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Defining Image Access Presentation Notes
See also: DefiningImageAccess/Report
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What is Defining Image Access about?
- images as part of the scientific record
- "universals" and "particulars"
- the role of institutional repositories
- Example: gene expression images
- Discuss the need for domain-specific metadata
Project partners
- Image Bioinformatics Research Group (IBRG), Zoology, Oxford
- Repository partners:
- DSpace @ Cambridge
- Southampton University, ECS and Library Services
- Oxford University Library Services (OULS)
- Imperial College Library
- Consultant partners
- UKOLN, Bath
- Oxford University Computing Services
- Oxford e-Research Centre
- Imperial College Internet Centre
- CCLRC e-Science Centre, Rutherford Laboratory
Project activities
- Project partner meetings
- Kick off meeting, 5 January 2007
- Software tools and technologies meeting: 9 February 2007
- Intute Search and JISC Interactions meeting: 9 March 2007
- Final meeting: 22 June 2007
- Repository partner meetings
- Dspace @ Cambridge: 22 January 2007
- Southampton University: 16 April 2007
- Oxford University Library Services: 3 May 2007
- Imperial College: 15 June 2007
- Dissemination meetings
- OeRC symposium "The Digital Image": 16 March 2007
- Seminar at ECS, Southampton University: 16 April 2007
- Related projects survey
- Metadata standards survey
- Software tools survey
- Software tools evaluation
- ePrints - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Eprints
- Joseki - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Joseki
- Sesame - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Sesame
- Virtuoso - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Virtuoso
- AllegroGraph - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/AllegroGraph
- OAI-PMH RDFizer - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/OAI-PMH_RDFizer
- SWED semantic portal - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Semantic_Portal
- Semantic Media Wiki - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Semantic MediaWiki
- Connotea - DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Connotea
- Google Earth - DefiningImageAccess/Project/Google Earth
- delicious - DefiningImageAccess/Service/Delicious
- Outline software design proposal
What we learned
- Not many image collections (yet)
- Very little domain metadata
- OAI-PMH is virtually a universal interface for repository metadata
BUT ...
- OAI-PMH is not a practical choice for exposing domain metadata from institutional repositories (with current software systems); it may be practical for workgroup repositories.
- a strategy for domain specific metadata based on composite or multipart objects, with one or more components containing metadata, may be easier to deploy uniformly.
- Tools exist for converting OAI-PMH results to RDF, but no SPARQL query-rewriting endpoints for OAI-PMH have been discovered.
- OAI-PMH does not provide mechanisms for searching on metadata values, so some level of preharvesting and pre-indexing is likely to be required, or use of a private repository search API.
- The performance of D2R server is yet to be evaluated, in contrast to some commercial products, such as Virtuoso and AllegroGraph
Recommendations
Design proposal
This is a Powerpoint file that has been used to assemble a design proposal (part 2), a rationale upon which that proposal is based (part 1), and an outline of how implementation of that proposal might be approached.
Related presentations
- David's slides for kick-off meeting: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/drupal/files/Shotton%20-%20JISC%20Project%20Kick-Off%20Meeting%205%20Jan%202007.ppt
- Presentation given at Southampton: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/drupal/files/Shotton%20Southampton%20seminar%2016-04-2007.ppt
