1. www.isocat.org ISOcat status Menzo.Windhouwer@mpi.nl

2. www.isocat.org Outline ISOcat forum Thematic Domain Groups Standardization Bulk load data categories Public DCSs Other changes Container data categories Relation Registry CLARIN-NL Helpdesk 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

3. www.isocat.org ISOcat forum http://www.isocat.org/forum/ – General support forum – A forum for Thematic Domain Group But a TDG (chair) has to request it, so we’ll know the forum will be monitored by the TDG members – A (private) forum for a group Send a request to isocat@mpi.nlisocat@mpi.nl – Send a forum mediated email to the DC owner, a TDG/group member 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

4. www.isocat.org Thematic Domain Groups The ISO ballot for TDG members has ended Metadata, Morposyntax and Terminology are still the more active TDGs TDGs in the process of being established: – Translation – Sign languages – Audio 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

5. www.isocat.org Standardization The standardization workflow has been implemented – But needs some tweaks – Only TDG members can currently submit DCs for standardization The metadata TDG will start standardizing in October 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

6. www.isocat.org Bulk load data categories http://www.isocat.org/12620/ DCIF Relax NG schema now also contains Schematron rules to fully check data category specifications – Supported by XML editors like oXygen ISOcat can export DCIF – But for large DCSs/profiles this still takes quite long ISOcat can import DCIF – Contact isocat@mpi.nl to upload your DCS via DCIFisocat@mpi.nl 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

7. www.isocat.org Public DCSs GOLD ontology: – My Workspace > Public > RELISH > GOLD 2010 But not all concepts make good data categories Upcoming: – ISO 639: language (family) codes Consensus on the PIDs and mapping Needs better handling of large DCSs – TEI Header Needs container data category type 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

8. www.isocat.org Other changes DC Reference vocabulary – New dcr:valueDatcat attribute and element <feat name=“gender” dcr:datcat=“…/DC-1297”…/DC-1297 value=“masculine” dcr:valueDatcat=“…/DC- 1883”…/DC- 1883 /> Many UI fixes – Contact isocat@mpi.nl or use the forum to report your own issuesisocat@mpi.nl 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

9. www.isocat.org Container data categories At the TC 37 plenary we got the green light to add the container data category type 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status lexicon language alphabet entry lemma writtenForm japanese ipa

10. www.isocat.org Relation Registry Implementation has started September 2010 First focus on RESTful web services for CMDI – http://localhost:8080/rr/rest/set/cmdi http://localhost:8080/rr/rest/set/cmdi – http://localhost:8080/rr/rest/set/cmdi/relations?relation=sameAs&re source=dc:language http://localhost:8080/rr/rest/set/cmdi/relations?relation=sameAs&re source=dc:language RDF-based quad store – Contact isocat@mpi.nl to upload your own set of relationsisocat@mpi.nl Which relations? – OWL inspired (ontology): sameAs, distinct, subClassOf/superClassOf – SKOS inspired (taxonomy): broader/narrower, related – Partitive relations (OWL patterns): partOf, directPartOf, indirectPartOf – … 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status

11. www.isocat.org CLARIN-NL Helpdesk Paul van Caspel http://lux102/trac helpdesk.clarin@uu.nl 9/21/2010CLARIN-NL - Call 1 - ISOcat status