UDEF

Objective of Meeting

There were three UDEF meetings during the conference: two UDEF Tutorials (on Monday February 1 and Tuesday February 2), and a UDEF/XML/RDF Workshop (on Wednesday February 3).

The aim of the tutorials was to provide training on the Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) and how to use it.

The aim of the workshop was to explore the use of UDEF for indexing data expressed in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and its relation to the Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard.

Summary

The UDEF Tutorials were given by UDEF Project chair Ron Schuldt. They provided an in-depth explanation of the value, definition, and use of the UDEF.

The workshop explored the use of UDEF to tag XML expressions, its relation to RDF, and its use in conjunction with RDF to support semantic queries on data.

Outputs

This summary and the detailed minutes (available to members only) form the main outputs of the meetings.

Next Steps

Further UDEF tutorials will be held at Open Group conferences, as the opportunity arises.

The ideas discussed in the workshop will be explored and developed further by the UDEF project team.

Links

See above.