If you tried to request your password and nothing happened, it’s because mail was broken on the server. Actually I had closed the port in the firewall a very long time ago and since a password request is the only thing that normally uses mail on the Registry, I hadn’t noticed.
Today I needed to register as a new user with this here blog (same server) and I didn’t get a password emailed to me! Oh, the sorrow.
It’s fixed now. Oh, the joy.
A few belated entries about registry activities at the DC2006 conference in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico…
“So now we’ll just see how long it takes Jon to get his oar in”
The evidence is irrefutable — it took me almost exactly two months…
I stumbled across an email this morning from the Semantic Web Best Practices list that made me more aware of one of the main things that’s making me hesitate before diving into the Registry project… I’m certain that I don’t know enough about what I’m doing. So I spent a little bit of time browsing the SWBP list…
Building any kind of functioning service requires an initial assemblage of assumptions. Who’s the user? What do they expect in the way of service and interaction? Where do we start to engage them in the enterprise? I’ve always been a strong believer in diverse work teams, with a variety of backgrounds and experience brought to the table. Of course the messy part of diversity comes when there’s a need to come to some consensus about priorities and approaches.
Infravio has released X-Registry Platform 5 and I wish we could get our hands on this and take it for a test run. Looks like it might be a great model for both the Registry and the MMS. According to the article, the cost is $125K to $175K, which seems a bit expensive, but does indicate the overall organizational value of this kind of service and I assume the expected ROI.
What does cooking have to do with registries? Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this first guest appearance, Tom Baker describes the “cookbook” drafted by Alistair Miles that enables Apache HTTP servers to provide different responses for serving RDFS/OWL vocabularies, depending on the nature of the requestor.
It was gratifying to see at the NSDL Registry stakeholders meeting yesterday afternoon, that our initial feeling that this was the RIGHT time for a metadata registry was confirmed.
Today I came to the conclusion that the services provided by the Registry are far more important than the Registry itself and that we need to spend some quality time thinking about and discussing what services the Registry will offer and how people might integrate those services into their own applications.
One of the things that one suddenly has time for after a hectic conference is to sit down and read some of the papers one didn’t have a chance to see being presented. One such paper (brought to my attention by Eric Childress at OCLC—thanks Eric!) was Joe Tennis’ paper entitled “SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies” [http://purl.org/dcpapers/2005/Paper33].