Standards
Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DoL) partnered with DATAMARK to scan an estimated 2.5 million pages of paper records into digital image files for long term storage and retrieval.
Read MoreMultinational Community Progresses with Standards
IFLA (international Federation of Library Associations) was not historically thought of as a place for standards but in the last few years they have been actively working in both support of and development of standards and guidelines. Their latest offering is the Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts, which is a guide to provide the multinational community a standard set of definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages.
Read MoreLinked Data, DOI, RDF, and Dublin Core
On a quest to reach the holy grail of the Semantic Web.
What started as a straightforward and elegant model by Eric Miller as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) has become incredibly complicated. When I first came upon this model, in the early days of the Dublin Core standard discussions, it was a framework. That is, it was a self describing way to transmit an XML file. The RDF formed a wrapper around the XML by including the XML Schema (DTD) so that whoever received the file would know what the elements, attributes, allowed ranges, etc. were, and be able to use the data included without further hunting for file descriptions, translations of the fields (elements), how they related, etc. RDF has grown up and become embroiled in discussions of triples, Subject-Object-Predicate discussions, and its use as the basis for linked data and even the basis for the final real implementation of the Semantic Web.
Read MoreConsortium Seeking Multilingual Web Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web and Jeffery Jaffe is overseeing their largest project in progress ( HTML5 standards group), all the while trying to ensure that the Consortium sharpens its focus on multilingual web standards for countries like India.
Read MoreContent Management System Goes Mobile
Pharos releases a content delivery module for its Mediator content management platform that manages content preparation, metadata production and approvals workflow for mobile and on-demand applications.
Read MoreStandards Are Advancing Quickly On the International Front
Much of what is happening with standards seems to be evolving along parallel but separate paths.
Read MoreConference on Linked Data Coming Soon
This ISKO UK one-day conference examines how this linking can be done using Semantic Web technologies like URIs, RDF and SKOS, and how real-world examples of Linked Data in action are here, now, and are growing.
Read MoreNISO Members – Don’t Forget To Vote
Voting for the ballot on standard ISO/FDIS 24614-1, Language resource management -Word segmentation of written texts — Part 1: Basic concepts and general principles is coming to a close.
Read MoreStandards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?
Standards were not popular with would-be railroad tycoons in the 1880s. A standard set of railroad tracks eliminated some profitable loading and unloading work. Incompatible tracks kept the other guys’ rolling stock on another guy’s tracks. Eventually standards emerged because a couple of tycoons figured out how to make even more money by standardizing. Many industries go through this wide open approach only to find that over time certain methods or designs become part of the furniture of living.
Read MoreTwo Web Sites Relaunched to Meet Quality Measures
Two new government web sites relaunched to meet quality measures and guidelines.
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