Web Data Models and ramm.x

Michael Bergman has written an excellent report on Web Data Models in the realm of UMBEL, a lightweight, universal subject reference structure for the Web. He also mentions ramm.x:

[...] ramm.x is a good candidate source for UMBEL characterizations because of its breadth in format and metadata coverage. The specification is also well prepared.

Thanks Michael! We'll certainly continue to work hard on it - not only to provide well written specs, but also implement stuff ;)

Upcoming: Presenting ramm.x at the Cultural Heritage workshop at ISWC07, a poster at SAMT07, and a reference implementation for a ramm.x agent. Stay tuned ...

ramm.x paper accepted at ISWC workshop

We are happy to announce that our paper "Deploying Multimedia Metadata in Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web" has been accepted for presentation at the First International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, collocated with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC07). See you in Busan, South Korea in Nov 2007!

Tutorial on ramm.x (slides and video)

Want to learn what ramm.x is and do not like to read through the tutorial slides? We have captured an introduction session and put it on youtube. In four parts, we explain all the details why, where, and how to use ramm.x - check it out!

Status and Upcoming Stuff

So these days heavily work is carried out on the ramm.x use cases. Check out the latest version of the use case document!

We captured a ramm.x introduction video along with some tutorial slides - the clip will soon be available on the ramm.x home page and via youtube.

Creative Commons on ramm.x

Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons recently reviewed ramm.x and concluded that

[...] ramm.x may be an effort to map and standardize use of existing and upcoming media description standards in RDFa [...]

Mike is absolutely right ;) and very welcome to join the discussion group to bring in his expertise regarding licensing issues .

New use cases proposal

Tobias has posted two interesting proposals regarding the use cases: to add a DRM use case and to review the "Image Annotation on the Semantic Web" - Deliverable (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-image-annotation/).

ramm.x news in the blogosphere ...

So from today on, dear friend, you'll be able to read ramm.x news in you favourite feed reader. We decided to set up this blog to keep you posted with day-to-day news about the progress we have with the ramm.x spec, and the use cases, respectively.

Further, from today on, we have a public code repository available - check out the open issues, there ...

Cheers,

Michael & Werner