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eXtended Metadata Registry (XMDR)

Two Slides for Ontology Summit Presentation 

Bruce BargmeyerLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryandUniversity of California, BerkeleyTel: +1 510-495-2905bebargmeyer@lbl.gov

eXtended Metadata Registry (XMDR)

What XMDR Brings to the Table: Use cases - semantics challenges - and Requirements Potential design specifications

Proposed specifications for ISO/IEC 11179 Edition 3 – A UML Model, definitions, and OWL ontology

Modular software architecture and open source software modules Open Source XMDR software Test content – concept systems including thesauri, taxonomies,

ontologies A group of participants (XMDR project) that has considerable

experience in this area. See: XMDR.org

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Modular XMDR Archtitecture

Registry Store

Search & Content Serving (Jena, Lucene)

XMDR metamodel (OWL & xml schema)

standard XMDR filesstandard XMDR files

standard XMDR filesstandard XMDR files

LogicIndex

Content Loading & Transformation

(Lexgrid & custom)

Human User Interface(HTML fromJSP and javascript; Exhibit)

Metadata Sources concept systems,

data elements

USERSWeb Browsers…..Client

Software

Application Program Interface (REST)

Authentication ServiceValidation

(XML Schema)

MappingEngine

Logic Indexer(Jana & Pellet)

Text Indexer(Lucene)

Metamodel specs(UML & Editing)

(Poseidon, Protege)

XMDR data model & exchange format

XML, RDF, OWL

TextIndex

Postgres Database

Third Party Software