Resource Maps (edit - store - visualise)

[JDoove]

Dear All,

I thought it would be nice to (or actually Herbert motivated me
to ;-) ) post something about recent developments on Enhanced
Publications at SURFfoundation (www.surffoundation.nl/
enhancedpublications) that make use of OAI-ORE.
We are now in the stage that we have easy to use tools to create,
store and visualise Resource Maps (which underly Enhanced
Publications).

We have been working on Enhanced Publications for quite some time now,
starting with the DRIVER II activities (see:http://www.driver-
repository.eu/Enhanced-Publications.html), followed by Calls for
Tender in two consecutive years and recently with some further
developments concerning tools/software to create, store and visualise
Enhanced Publications (or the Resource maps that describe objects and
the relationships between the objects).

First the ESCAPE project, which was a project in the second of the two
Calls for tender carried out jointly by KNAW (The Royal Academy of
Arts and Sciences), Twente University and Groningen University,
developed a tool that allowed researchers to create enhanced
publications using an editor. Additionally they develop a Resource Map
repository to store the created resource maps. They used Fedora and a
sesame triple store for the RDF triples.

In a follow up by Twente University the tool is being refined (some
functionalities were added that were requested by users of the tool)
and a Visualisation module (developed parallel in another project
issued by SURFfoundation), called InContext has been added. This
package (resource map editor, resource maps, InContext Visualiser)
allows for researchers to link their own objects to one another using
build in (but certainly not complete) ontologies.

A datamodel (http://wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/vp/1.1+Information
+Model+for+Enhanced+Publications+whitepaper) is being developed to
make sure the Enhanced Publications are created and transported in an
uniform way. This is vital because we strive to aggragate the Enhanced
Publications in the national research portal that is already in use
for aggregating Open Access Publications (project currently underway):
http://www.narcis.nl/

The tools are of course available open source:
http://code.google.com/p/surf-escape/ (Resource map editor + Resource
maps repository)
and
http://code.google.com/p/surf-incontext/ (InContext Visualiser)

Two examples on how earlier project have made use of these tools can
be seen here:
http://escape.utwente.nl/graph/80#id=80

http://escape.utwente.nl/graph/48#id=48


Hope you like it :-),

If you would want to know more, feel free to contact me
(do...@surf.nl),

Best wishes,
John Doove
Project coordinator Enhanced Publications, SURFfoundation

p.s. I will be at OAI& if anyone would like to discuss this further,