VocabWiki Roadmap

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[edit] Roadmap for creating a collaborative vocabulary

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The core members of Forging the Future have sketched the following roadmap for sharing metadata such as vocabulary terms and definitions among applications and users in and outside of the Forging network:

1. Rhizome and U-Me will collaborate on researching, implementing, and hosting a MediaWiki site for vetting vocabulary terms and definitions. Patrick May and John Bell will look into this (call it "VocabWiki" for now).

2. Rhizome and FF will merge their respective vocabularies into VocabWiki. This will involve some inevitable reconciliation of syntax and scope; Lauren and Michael will spearhead this.

3. A limited number of reviewers (drawn primarily from Forging the Future participants) will comment on and, in some fashion to be determined, approve terms in VocabWiki.

4. Rhizome will confirm its policy for expanding its official vocabulary to accommodate the most popular folksonomy terms suggested by its artists. We will set up the VocabWiki so that these new terms can be migrated automatically into the wiki as Rhizome approves of them.

5. VocabWiki XML will be exposed via a protocol like ODBC to Web services like the VMQ and FileMaker clients like the FFDB and DAMD (and any third party apps that want to use it). John Bell and I will work on the VMQ integration, and Rick will look into integration into FileMaker applications.

What do we get for all this trouble?

  • A registrar adding an artwork to a collection can click a button in FileMaker or the VMQ and see a popup of the most recent, say, genres that might apply to that artwork. She can then click on urls to see VocabWiki entries on "collider" or "Web 2.0," or she can click another link to add these terms automatically to the database with a trackback link to the VocabWiki entry for future users to follow.
  • MANS can link to VocabWiki as a source for certain of its metadata specs.
  • Berkeley, FF, and U-Me can move forward with their new releases with this metadata-sharing architecture in mind.
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