The SKUA project is a project, funded by
JISC under the
e-Infrastructure programme, to prototype a distributed network of
semantically aware shared annotation services (in the form of RDF
stores). This semantic layer
will support a cluster of
applications which will either directly support users in finding and
recovering useful resources, or indirectly support them by supporting
user-facing applications. Although the system we build will be
specialised to astronomy, and proved by its interaction with, and
anticipated embedding within, the Virtual Observatory, the bulk of the semantic knowledge is
localised in the RDF store, with the design goal that it could be
replaced if desired by the analogous semantic knowledge of a different
domain.
The project people are Norman Gray, Tony Linde, and Kona Andrews.