Contributing to the definition of a method for the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles

Mariana Curado Malta* Supervisors: Ana Alice Baptista (DSI/UMinho) & Cristina Parente (FLUP) * [email protected] Contributing to the definition of a method for the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles Introduction ●Context of the Semantic Web ●A metadata Application Profile (AP): technique used to adapt to the specific needs of a certain community [Lynch, 1997]. ●A Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP): an AP following the rules of the Singapore Framework – c.f. Baker et al. (2008) ●DCAP: a very important instrument to implement semantic interoperability Problem ●There is no method to develop a DCAP [Curado Malta and Baptista, 2012] ●Only guidelines available to develop a DCAP: ●Singapore Framework – Baker et al. (2008) ●DCMI Guidelines for DCAP - Baker and Coyle (2009) None is a method ●Project aims: to contribute to the definition of a Method for the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles - Me4DCAP Research Methodology ●Design science research (DSR) ●DSR aims at the development of innovative artifacts [Simon, 1996]: ●constructs, models, methods, or instantiations of these 3 artifacts [Hevner, 2007] ●Project's artifact: a method (Me4DCAP) ●DSR approach by Hevner (2007) ●Me4DCAP is in the “exaptation quadrant” - c.f. Gregor and Hevner (2013) Contributions ●A new Method: Method for the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles (Me4DCAP) ●A new DCAP (DCAPSSE) for the world community of social and solidarity economy web based information systems Work done until July 2013 ●State of the art of the Web Based Information Systems of the Social and Solidarity Economy – c.f. Curado Malta and Baptista (2013a) ●State of the art of the Metadata Application Profiles of the last decade - paper submitted to the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies; under revisions. ●State of the art on methodologies for the development of a metadata application profile - c.f. Curado Malta and Baptista (2012) and Curado Malta and Baptista (2013b) ●Publication of Me4DCAP – c.f. Curado Malta and Baptista (2013c) and Curado Malta and Baptista (2013d) ●Development of DCAP-SSE (still under construction) ●Validation of Me4DCAP: ●Non-formal validation of V0.1 ●Preparation of the Focus Groups for validation of V0.2. Work to be done Bibliography See abstract WHAT END DCAP-SSE development December 2013 2 Focus Groups October 2013 Writing the thesis April 2014