Standards
Book Publishing – What About the Standards?
The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T’s recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as “an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.”
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
Read MoreStandards in Biomedical Research
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is working with the US National Cancer Institute’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services (NCI-EVS) on a new electronic library designed to help define and standardize data elements for use in biomedical research and healthcare.
Read MoreStandards Are Top of the List
Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier?
Read MoreThe Path to Transparency Conference
The XBRL US National Conference will be held November 9-10, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA and will feature educational sessions and practical training that can be applied immediately by public company financial executives, investors and securities processing professionals.
Read MoreAdventures of a TaxoTourist
The trip was awesome—a dream exotic vacation to Bali. It was not about eat, pray, love, but a rather unbalanced midpoint to meet my Oz-dwelling daughter. I enjoyed dashes of ecotourism and agritourism, but even in full vacation mode I couldn’t fully suppress my perspective as a taxonomist.
Read MoreWorkshop on Cloud Computing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop II on November 4 and 5, 2010 to give government and industry stakeholders the opportunity to comment on next steps in developing cloud computing standards.
Read MoreBest Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality
XBRL US, the national consortium for XML business reporting standards, has created a 16-member Best Practice Committee as part of XBRL US’ focus on data quality. The committee is charged with identifying and reaching agreement on best practices in the creation of XBRL-formatted financial statements from public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreWhere Are They Now?
Tech companies come and go. There are always tech savvy entrepreneurs with big ideas looking to fill a need in the market and investors looking to get the huge returns that only come from investing in tech startups.
But tech is risky, markets are volatile, and oftentimes what seems like a good idea is not always as good once implemented in the real world. A good example of this is the dot com boom and subsequent bust in the early 21st century. You could get funding on a back of the envelop business plan. Billions of dollars were invested in tech startups with big ideas and big dreams. Many of these dreams were shattered when investors realized they were not getting the same returns they had hoped.
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