MokaByte-SWP Background

Aims & Objectives

Given the motivations of the demonstration, the key aims of the project are:

• To create a compelling and effective demonstration of semantic web technologies and approaches.
• To create an system that provides prototype tools for creating and maintaining a directory of MokaByte articles and detailed information about them.
• The system should offer solutions to many of the limitations and problems of traditional and existing approaches - that have been identified as part of our survey activity.

Based on these aims, the objectives for the actual prototype is that that it should demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Sustainability and robustness in terms of economics, resource, personnel and technology
• Ease of maintenance for both directory publishers and organisations that are included in the directory
• Ease of implementation (relatively) at low cost, in terms of financial costs, technical systems and skills required and time.
• Flexibility and support for the creation of customizable user interfaces. It will allow developers to change what information is made available, how information is displayed and how it is organised, the look and feel of the portal and the ways of searching and navigating the information.
• Be based on open (non-proprietary) technologies
• Extensibility. It will be easy to change existing and add new types of information to system
• Support for the re-use of information that already exists (rather than require duplication)
• Support for integration of diverse complementary types and sources of information.