Resource Space Model (RSM) is a semantic model to manage and share heterogeneous resources on the Internet. This paper focuses
on the general architecture, physical implementation and application of RSM. The RSM system adopts Client/Server mode for
users to utilize resource spaces through the Internet. The resource spaces are designed based on domain knowledge and stored
as XML files in the server. The tool 3DBrowser provides a friendly interface with three-dimensional scene to display resource
spaces, locate and operate on resources. Based on the architecture and tools, a Dunhuang RSM system has been developed as
a collaboration platform to organize and share the resources of Dunhuang Culture Grid. The system provides an efficient resource
locating way based on the classification of resources and improves the efficiency of research.
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 project No.2003CB317000) and the National Science
Foundation of China (Grants 60273020 and 70271007).