Making sense of schemas
What are schemas?
Motivation for SCHEMAS
Where we stand
An XML schema example
PPT Slide
Each schema a language unto itself
Too many ways to do it!
W3C Semantic Web
Semantic Web hypothesis
The RDF model
The RDF model
The RDF model
URIs as anchors for merging data
First source
Second source
Third source
Three descriptions merged
Three descriptions merged
Partial understanding
Pidgin metadata
Making schemas comparable
Registries
Like dictionaries
…but also unlike dictionaries
Life on the bleeding edge
Keep it simple
Thomas.Baker@gmd.de