Dear Sir, The Web Opac is working fine giving all the details. The Web interface of SLIM++ software is also impressive. One other WebOpac worth looking is that of the Hyderabad based "Indian School of Busienss". Following is the link. Just do a little browsing of the library catalogue and you will apperciate the quantity of information that can be accessed online. http://www.isb.edu/lrc/index.html A digital library of documents relating to business management is also available. Regards, SALMAN HAIDER Consultant, Indian School of Business Library (LRC) Hyderabad On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 Jai Haravu wrote :
While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done.
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information To: mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com, ikishore@rediffmail.com, mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com
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Dear Member, The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. Try doing Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. Regards, Monali Panchbhai Librarian, J V Gokal & Com. Mumbai.
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Dear Colleagues,
We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents.
Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ?
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: N Murali < mailto:murali_dhara@yahoo.com murali_dhara@yahoo.com
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com 20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com
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We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale Institute Library has successfully developed the bibliographic database of its entire collection which may be accessed through the following site:
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Gokhale Library might be the first to put up bibliographic details of its entire collection on the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme (1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004).
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in
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UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook ). ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------
Dr. Shalini R. Urs Director Information and Communication Division & Professor and Chairperson Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore Mysore-570006 India Tele:91-821-2514699 Fax :91-821-2519209
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Message: 4 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun@mssrf.res.in
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Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant . HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made the jewels, the colors
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write . Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows theyre [embracing] its creative side.
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that <I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it.
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation.
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets? they would say to him.
Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built . This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself . Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.
I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it yourself.
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.
Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there.
-- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ --------------------------------------
Dear Sir, The Web Opac is working fine giving all the details. The Web interface of SLIM++ software is also impressive. One other WebOpac worth looking is that of the Hyderabad based "Indian School of Busienss". Following is the link. Just do a little browsing of the library catalogue and you will apperciate the quantity of information that can be accessed online. http://www.isb.edu/lrc/index.html A digital library of documents relating to business management is also available. Regards, SALMAN HAIDER Consultant, Indian School of Business Library (LRC) Hyderabad On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 Jai Haravu wrote :
While congratulating the Gokhale Inst. for putting their library catalogue on the web, I must also express my disappointment that it looks like only the Institute's authorized users can search the OPAC. I think the Institute has such a rich collection of material that it should allow other scholars to at least search its collection and know if a particular publication is available or not. The whole purpose of putting a library's catalogue on the web is defeated if this is not done.
cid:65519CDA-52A4-4314-A994-7F572CE46607 L J Haravu Trustee, Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.kiikm.org/] 69 Krishnapuri Colony West Marredpally Sedcunderabad 500 026 Tel: 91-40-27803947 -------Original Message-------
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:50 +0000 From: "Monali Panchbhai" < mailto:monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com monalipanchbhai@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information To: mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com, ikishore@rediffmail.com, mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com BAY12-F22wGmAf0Mjka0001a01d@hotmail.com
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Dear Member, The facility to restrict copy/paste/print is available through the Latest Acrobat-PDF 6.0 version. You have to save that document with secutiry option which gives you the facility of the restricting diff. types of rights. Try doing Document ---> Security ---> Restrict opening & editing ---> then set password and select the options for restriciting the rights. Regards, Monali Panchbhai Librarian, J V Gokal & Com. Mumbai.
From: "Kishore Ingale" < mailto:ikishore@rediffmail.com ikishore@rediffmail.com
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To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Information Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:34:30 -0000
Dear Colleagues,
We are experimenting with providing access to our digital documents to users through web based server (using Greenstone). Collection mostly include MS WORD and PDF documents.
Is it possible to implement security with which users will be able to view documents but not able to download / save these files at their end.. ?
Kishore Ingale & mailto:gt;ikishore@rediffmail.com gt;ikishore@rediffmail.com ForwardSourceID:NT000043C2 _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list & mailto:gt;LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in gt;LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Millions of profiles from across the globe. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2737??PS=47575 On BharatMatrimony.com
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: N Murali < mailto:murali_dhara@yahoo.com murali_dhara@yahoo.com
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Announcement To: mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: < mailto:20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com 20040930130114.72116.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2004 15:07:39 +0100 From: Prabhash Rath < mailto:prabhash@gipe.ernet.in prabhash@gipe.ernet.in
Subject: Announcement
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Dear professionals,
We are happy to inform you that the Gokhale Institute Library has successfully developed the bibliographic database of its entire collection which may be accessed through the following site:
http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html http://www.gipe.ernet.in/library/librarycatalogue.html
Gokhale Library might be the first to put up bibliographic details of its entire collection on the Web under the INFLIBNET automation programme (1st Oct. 1999 to 30th Sept. 2004).
A P Gadre Librarian
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:42:27 +0530 (IST) From: "Shalini R. Urs" < mailto:shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in shalini@vidyanidhi.org.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unesco-eBook Workshop- September 16-Hotel Atria, Bangalore-Report To: < mailto:lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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UNESCO Interactive Workshop on eBooks, Hotel Atria, Bangalore September 16, 2004 ( http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook ). ---------- Envisioning the potential of eBooks in promoting and supporting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based- student centred learning, UNESCO is engaged in a project on developing guidelines for eBooks. The mission of this project is to carry out a scoping and exploratory study of the eBooks and develop guidelines for the production, promotion and usage of eBooks. This consultancy project involved three phases- desk top research; questionnaire based user study and an Interactive Workshop The Interactive Workshop on eBooks, was organised on September 16, 2004 and held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore. The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr.S.Ramakrishanan, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune. Dr. Lucy A Tedd of University of Wales gave the keynote and Dr.Susanne Ornager, Advisor, Communication and Information for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, New Delhi chaired the session. The invitation only Workshop was an important milestone in the Project, with more than seventy participants representing the diverse stakeholders community. There were forty three information professionals; twenty four end users and technologists; and six from the publishing/aggregator industry in the Workshop, engaged in interacting, deliberating and debating on the gamut of issues- from definitions to design to delivery mechanisms. The format of the Workshop was designed to be interactive with each session having speakers and a moderator to lead the discussions with a set of issues/questions. The inaugural session was followed by three sessions- user and technology perspective; author and publisher perspective; and aggregator and library perspective. Prof. R.Kalyana Krishnan of IIT, Chennai, Prof.G.Misra of Indian Statistical Institute, Mr.Sanjiv Goswami of Springer, N.V.Sathyanarayana of Informatics India, Dr.Primalini Kukanesan of National Library of Malaysia and Dr. Deepali Talagala of Sri Lanka Library Association were the speakers at these sessions. The three sessions were moderated by Mr. Anand T. Byrappa of GE, Prof. I.K.Ravichandra Rao of Indian Statistical Institute and Dr.Venkadesan of Indian Institute of Science respectively. There were product presentations by John Wiley and Springer. The Workshop objective of gaining insights from different perspective was achieved and the interactions helped in drawing meaningful conclusions and providing the necessary inputs for the drafting of framework for the guidelines document. For more detailed report, presentations and details of the Project visit the website http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------ http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/ebook------------------
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Message: 4 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:33:48 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam < mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in arun@mssrf.res.in
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Friends:
Here is an interesting article I received in the mail. Some of you may find it interesting and useful. Best wishes.
Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/
The MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies conference featured a keynote by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Promising a one-hour talk in 30 minutes, Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation -- more like a 90-minute talk in 30 minutes -- about the Semantic Web, his latest initiative.
Berners-Lees early remarks focused on his development of the Web. Making the Web was really simple because there was already this morass of things being developed on the Internet, including protocols such as TCP/IP and other standards. All I had to do on top of that to create the Web was to create a single global space, which some people said was rather arrogant . HTTP was a new scheme for the Web and the idea was that it would minimally constraining. And HTML, the language he created to drive the Web, would be the cloth on which a tapestry would be made the jewels, the colors
Based on this fast-growing morass of websites and the interactions between them, whats come out of it? Dot-com companies that have come and gone, new ways of thinking and more recently, wikis and blogs. The original thing I wanted to do was make it a collaborative medium, a place where we can all meet and read and write . Collaborative things are exciting, and the fact people are doing wikis and blogs shows theyre [embracing] its creative side.
But from the very beginning of the Web, Berners-Lee had hoped that he would be able to incorporate descriptive information into the Webs fundamental design, but for various reasons it didnt make the cut. One thing I wanted to put in the original design was the typing of links, he said. For example, lets say you link your website to another site. At the moment, the hyperlink connecting them contains very little information: just an address to get to the other websites content. But Berners-Lees idea was to include metadata with each hyperlink to describe <I>the relationship</I> between the two sites. For example: do the people linking their two websites know each other personally, professionally, or not at all? If theyre colleagues, how are they working together, and in what fields? Where are they working?
When we put one link to another, a human being knows what that link may mean, but a machine doesnt, he said. But this idea of embedding large amounts of machine-readable metadata into HTML didnt make it into the original Web standard. Now, hes trying to change that, with an initiative called the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web looks at integrating data across the Web, Berners-Lee said. As the <a href=" http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ ">World Wide Web Consortium</a> explains, The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow's programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs have been designed totally independently. The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.
For the Semantic Web to function properly, websites would be designed in ways fundamentally different to traditional HTML. For example, in traditional HTML, if I wanted to assign a page a particular color, I would simply include a bit of code stating exactly what that color should be. Color=Red, basically. But with the Semantic Web, you wouldnt do this. Rather, youd tell the website to go to a URL that <I>defines</I> a universal standard of what that color looks like. So instead of coding a webpage to say Color=Red, youd say something like Color= http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 http://internationalcolorstandardsite.org/colors/red/v2 and your website would know to connect to this site to identify the color. This would hold true for all data you include in your website: color, people, zipcodes, images, etc. Data would all be connected to URLs containing descriptive information about that data. Information would not be static or absolute; instead its an abstract concept that gets sucked up from another website explaining exactly how to define it.
An early example of the Semantic Web in action is the Creative Commons initiative, which gives content publishers a simple way of clarifying how their content may be used by others. The Creative Commons team has created a collection of copyright licenses, each stating whether a persons content can be used for commercial or noncommercial purposes, can be redistributed or edited, with or without the owners permission, etc. The system is very flexible, so a person may personalize their license with different combinations of these elements. When a content publisher, like a blogger, places a Creative Commons license on their website, they do so by adding a piece of code to their sites HTML that refers to their personalized license. This code is made of a collection of URLs, each of which defines a particular element of the license, such as the contents redistribution policy. So when search engines and other automated tools pick up that bloggers website, theyll access these URLs and understand your copyright policy as you intended it.
Easy? Maybe not. But Berners-Lee is confident in his vision. The Web is a tangle, your life is a tangle get used to it.
Berners-Lee sees the Semantic Web having a range of uses. Online information will connect seamlessly because of the common concepts they share. Thats what its all about connecting things, he said. The Semantic Web will help artificial intelligence projects, online translators and other technologies that require access to large amounts of descriptive data to work properly. Berners-Lee also offered a real-world example. Sometimes, in an emergency, like when a virus breaks out, you need to correlate data between a number of databases, he said. The Semantic Web, he explained, will make this much easier.
Its also helping build powerful social networking tools -- friend-of-a-friend networks in which people write a little bit about themselves as metadata, and connections get formed based on this information. Who knows what sort of Google will be built on top of this stuff, Berners-Lee wondered. Computers will be able to browse the Web and find what were looking for based on what they know about our needs and the descriptive metadata they find on relevant websites. A human being browse the Web? That will be a little old fashioned, he joked.
Berners-Lee noted that the success of the Semantic Web will depend on royalty-free technical standards. Standards must be royalty free to foster innovation and encourage the growth of new markets. It is very important that we make sure we are not tripped up by proprietary standards, he said. With so many ridiculous patents out there, theres always the threat that an underwater patent will torpedo innovation.
Following his speech, Berners-Lee took questions from the audience, moderated by Ethernet inventor and 3Com co-founder Bob Metcalfe. Berners-Lee said the Web was originally a play project that his bosses at Switzerlands CERN laboratory let him explore in his spare time. The structure of CERN, with its many groups of researchers working independently, influenced the structure of the Web. Because it was a lab, it acted more like a web in itself, so coming up with a virtual web for CERN staff to share information with each other made a lot of sense.
Once he developed the idea, he started to promote it through Internet discussion groups, though not necessarily the groups frequented by fellow scientists. Hypertext wasnt considered real computing, so I sent it out to alternative news groups, he said. Some people like the University of Illinois Marc Andreesen embraced the idea and ran with it; he went on to found Netscape.
Others were less supportive because they didnt like the technical structure behind it. Why do I have to use your horrible angle brackets? they would say to him.
Do you remember the names of these people? Metcalfe asked rather mischievously. Berners-Lee laughed and waved off the question.
Despite being the inventor of the Web, Berners-Lee didnt patent the standard, allowing others to build upon it -- and profit on it. Some people have said, Isnt it a shame all these commercial things came about? he noted. But most people wanted a commercial browser. The private sector helped spread the Web beyond the confines of research and academia. The MarcAndreesens of the world contributed a lot to the adoption of the Webm making it commercially viable, he noted. Berners-Lee added that he still uses Netscape, despite its fall in popularity, on a Mac with the OS X operating system, and has started playing with Mozillas new open source Firefox browser as well.
Berners-Lee also described how his work on the Web has changed over the years from being a sole endeavor to a distributed effort with lots of contributors. He waxed nostalgically over the days when he could make all the decisions himself, acknowledging the challenges of achieving consensus in distributed group projects. If you take little groups, they form their own little cultures. And when you get these groups together, they dont share their ideas, and have different values towards how things should be built . This takes a lot more energy than figuring out how to do it yourself . Making consensus, communicating with other people is hard work.
I had the luxury to do this myself with nobody there to object, he continued. But now were doing things where there are lot of people interested in getting involved. If you want to do something, do it yourself.
As a final question, Metcalfe asked Berners-Lee about his thoughts on the Web as an educational tool. Id like to see lots of curricula like the <a href=" http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ">MIT Open Courseware initiative</a> being picked up by K-12, he said. The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia (which he earlier referred to as The Font of All Knowledge). You really need to keep education materials sown together. So Id love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things up to date, but Id [even] like to see teachers help contribute to it.
Students can work together [on the Web] when they can interact with simulations, with teachers, but particularly with each other, he concluded. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there.
-- -------------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ --------------------------------------