Articles

Information of a more general nature on solution proposals, case studies, reference networks, the semantic web, etc.

Networking Reference Structures

A comprehensive description of an architecture for reference networks. The document discusses issues such as registration and access management, and shows the implications for various user groups in the cultural heritage sector.

The Universal Decimal Classification

In this article, Gertjan van Heijst relates the revived interest in classification and taxonomy to the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and the context in which it was developed a centry ago.

The shady individual (a difference of two amino acids)

The opening speech by Eelco Bruinsma on the occasion of the official kick-off of the RNA project is devoted to the individual object, which seems to hide itself behind a diversity of aspects whenever we attempt to refer to it.

The semantic web: the future of search engines

An interview with Prof. Dr. Frank van Harmelen on the semantic web.

Object and context profiles

In the Groningen casus we experiment with two special types of object descriptions, sets of properties that we have called profiles: object profiles and context profiles.