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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Informative and entertaining article highlights the history and application of content management systems and is worth the time to read.