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I played around with Google Wave a bit. I didn’t get it first, but after a while I saw its charms, well, potential charms. We finally seem to have a non clumsy tool to collaborate and communicate, the latter perhaps more than the former.

It may help to streamline thoughts on how to proceed if we want our (digital) libraries to become part of the semantic web. I started a wave therefore, and posted the following message.

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Working from the assumption that the library should become part of the semantic web, what should we do? Is the following a reasonable set of things to do?

1) Identify what we have, and give it a URI (meaning that authors, documents (objects), keywords, and concepts should get a URI

2) deposit the URI’s in a registry, with a minimal set of triples (relate URI of documents to URI of authors, etc…): what is the minimal set?

1 and 2 are data level requirements, the following are service level

3) use OAI-ORE to define compound objects

4) define owl:sameAs relations between URI’s when needed (what is the workflow here?)

5) Which vocabularies/ontologies can/should be used for which services. Do we need a service catalogue first?

what else?

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Now, if you are interested in active participation, let me know