Conclusion and future plans
- A consistent framework for intelligent and
controlled access to XML data collections has been
implemented
- RDF allowed the annotation of the (unchanged)
schema
- Administrator can point to any appropriate knowledge
source (accessing thesauri via web services)
- Administrator must just provide:
- XML Schema
- semantic description of XML elements and attributes
This is just the Semantic Web Open World assumption
- The interface is generalized:
- any document collection (no effort required)
- any search engine (implementaion of the wrapper required)
- Some features not yet implemented (but they are just
"conventional development")
- Future developments can consider:
- moving towards a fully client oriented architecture:
- XForms
- local processing of thesauri (RDF description)
- accessing heterogeneous document collections
- inserting and updating documents
