High-level Thesaurus (HILT) project http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ The HILT projects are a series of research projects based at the Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. HILT phase III is currently in progress and is the follow-up to the HILT Machine to Machine (M2M) Feasibility Study. Funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee and involving collaboration with EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, HILT Phase III is due to be completed in early 2007. 2006-07-22 en HILT team changes 2007-07-03 Macgregor, George George Macgregor is due to be leaving the HILT project team to join the Information Strategy Group at Liverpool John Moores University in late July 2007. Any HILT related queries involving George should now be directed to Emma McCulloch or Dennis Nicholson.

]]> HILT begin experimenting with the CAB Thesaurus http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/acknowledge.html 2007-06-15 Macgregor, George In order to facilitate further testing within HILT phase IV, the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) have provided HILT with the CAB Thesaurus, thus enabling possible testing within the JISC Information Environment (particularly intute). Thanks are extended to CABI!

]]> W3C SKOS Use Cases and Requirements published - includes HILT use case http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-ucr/#UC-Aims 2007-05-22 Macgregor, George The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published their SKOS use cases and future requirements. Includes a series of use cases from a variety of different communities of practice, in addition to HILT.

]]> Call for papers! Special issue of Library Review http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/LibraryReview/ 2007-04-30 Macgregor, George Submissions are sought for a special issue of Library Review on the topic of 'Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, applications and research'. Visit the link for further details!!!

]]> HILT phase IV website available http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt4/ 2007-04-30 Macgregor, George The HILT phase IV website is now available, although in a slightly embryonic state....

]]> JISC fund HILT Phase IV! 2007-04-03 Macgregor, George More details will be revealed in due course...

]]> HILT Final Report now available! http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt3web/finalreport.html 2007-03-02 Macgregor, George The HILT Final Report (submitted to funders JISC in early February 2007, is now available for public download.

]]> More HILT related dissemination http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/dissemination.html 2007-03-01 Macgregor, George 'A SKOS Core approach to implementing an M2M terminology mapping server' was presented at the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, 21-23 February 2007, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore, India. An e-print is available at the link above.

]]> HILT related dissemination http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/dissemination.html 2007-02-06 Macgregor, George Pre-prints of some recent HILT related dissemination is now available. Papers recently submitted and currently under peer review will appear on this page in due course.

]]> HILT SRW client 'scheme specific browse' demonstrator (using SKOS Core) http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt3web/pilots.html 2007-01-23 Macgregor, George An SRW client demonstrating the ability to parse SKOS Core wrapped data sent from HILT to enable the creation of hierachical browsing features is now available.

]]> Deletion of lis-hilt-org email list http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index2.html 2007-01-08 Macgregor, George Due to lack of traffic, the lis-hilt-org email list has been deleted by JISCMAIL. This list was used for communication and dissemination during HILT phases I and II and was considered no longer necessary. An archive of the list is available at the HILT I and II websites. Follow the link.

]]> More HILT dissemination http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/dissemination.html 2006-12-06 Macgregor, George A paper (A SKOS Core approach to implementing an M2M terminology mapping server) will be presented at the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, 21-23 February 2007, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, India. Publications details will be made available in due course.

]]> HILT SRW client demonstrator available http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt3web/pilots.html 2006-12-06 Macgregor, George A pilot demonstrator has been created to demonstrate the use of SRW and SKOS Core to create a HILT II terminology server emulation. This is now publicly accessible.

]]> HILT III Steering Group minutes now available! http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt3web/documents.html 2006-11-20 Macgregor, George The minutes of the HILT Steering Group meeting, held on 12th October 2006, are now available for download.

]]> HILT III pilots and demonstrator: SOAP client demonstrator and GoGeo! SRW client demonstrator http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/hilt3web/pilots.html 2006-10-23 Macgregor, George HILT phase III is now approaching the final area of research and development before the project end and final report.

Various pilot implementations and demonstrators have been created, including a SOAP client demonstrator and a GoGeo! SRW client demonstrator. Feel free to visit these and experiment. Please note, however, that these are under constant development and may therefore be taken down for tweaking at any time (i.e. don't expect them to work all the time!)

For those experimenting with the SOAP client demonstrator, some good examples include 'shore protection' or 'weeds' for the Get_all_records function, 'drainage' or 'air pollution' for the Get_DDC_records function, 363.34 or 378.198 for the Get_nonDDC_records function. The Get_filtered_set function is more conducive to your own random examples (some will work better than others though), but some good indicative output can be derived from 'Woodlands' (using IPSV) or 'Students' (using HASSET) or 'Academic teaching personnel' (using UNESCO). Remember that you can experiment with the filters and invoke the function over a number of terminologies by holding down the 'shift' key while you select from the drop down menu.

]]> Recent HILT dissemination http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/dissemination.html 2006-10-23 Macgregor, George The HILT team have been engaging in significant dissemination activity over recent months. Dennis Nicholson, Director of the Centre for Digital Library Research, attended the recent NKOS Workshop to present "HILT Phase III: Design requirements of an SRW-compliant Terminologies Mapping Pilot". More recently, Dennis and Emma McCulloch will be attending the International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 December 2006, New Delhi, to present "Investigating the feasibility of a distributed, mapping-based, approach to solving subject interoperability problems in a multi-scheme, cross-service, retrieval environment".

Futher details available at the news link above.

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