Build the Semantic Web

Since my last entry, I’ve written two! more application profiles. I can’t believe I am doing this actively. This is awesome.

The other entries are doing it from a delivery point of view, but I do this more from the content interoperability point of view. It’s amazing to see the content that’s being created by the business folks in my organization (a really big distributed organization) being federated. Most of the folks don’t get taxonomies, IA and all the stuff that goes on to make this happen, but they DO get finding their stuff. And that’s ultimately what matters to me.

And I’m helping to make it happen for them. Wowza.

So I just wrote my very own metadata schema. Yes, that’s right. I found a schema that wasn’t quite what I needed, took a little bit from it, and a little bit from another, and then some new information from my head and presto. New metadata schema.

ANd you know what? I have actually put it into production. Yes, that’s right! I have actually described documents and searched effectively using this schema! AND! It gets better… I have mapped it to Dublin Core and other schemas. God, so amazing to actually have done this.

... Now to namespace it. But wow! My very own Real Life schema!

... I’m such a friggin’ nerd. (See my other ToDo action item)

Writing an application profile is tasking. I did that 2 weeks ago. Refining it and getting all the little niggly bits is ever more tasking. Holy crap, my brain is dead.

On the plus side I got a bittersweet chocolate bar out of it.

I sound like such a friggin’ nerd. I want to build the semantic web. Why don’t I say I want to do something cool, like hey I know, “be cool.” Then maybe I’d be cool. But no, goddamnit, instead I make as a goal I want to build the semantic web.

Like a) I’m going to ever do that; b) be, sound, or look cool with that as a goal. Holy man, I am such a nerd.

Hm. I guess does this mean I achieve the other goal, the one at wanting to be more nerdy?

... have proper cataloguing and metadata of all resources to go with it!

... Ok, a lowly metadata systems librarian can dream. But one day, just one day this will happen, damnit!!