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Research Activities
The major research areas of the RDP continued to produce new and
innovative solutions. The work on metadata included:
- development of a metadata creation tool (Reggie) that provides
flexible element definitions and supported the latest emerging standards.
- key technology participants in the MetaWeb project and delivered
metadata tools for the Australian community to deploy.
- deploying a metadata-based pilot system for the Queensland Government.
- founding members of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) working
group within the World-Wide Web Consortium. RDF will be solving many of
the interoperability problems facing industry today.
The work and highlights of the search tools activities included:
- commercialisation of the HotOIL distributed search engine.
- enhancements to the workgroup search engine (WhatsHot).
- uptake of the periodic search engine (ORION) by a commercial client.
- key technology participants in the ZedWeb project and delivered
distributed library search tools for the National Library of Australia
and the University of Queensland Library.
- sold Z39.50 tool to the European Space Agency.
The RDP was also very successful in external events. They were active
organisers of the 7th International World-Wide-Web Conference in April in
Brisbane. The RDP hosted its successful 'Day in the Life of Metadata'
full-day seminar across Australia with an even larger number of attendees
this year.
A number of RDP staff also participated in sabbaticals to other
organisations in Japan and the USA.
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