Taxodiary – standards

Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

By Melody Smith|November 22nd, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

Recently, several very well known organizations announced that they had formed Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an open collaboration forum based in the Asia Pacific region.

Book Publishing – What About the Standards?

By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on 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?

Celebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core

By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Standards, Taxonomy|1 Comment

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."

Repositioning Information Science

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, reference, Standards|1 Comment

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.

Standards in Biomedical Research

By Melody Smith|November 4th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards 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.

Standards Are Top of the List

By Melody Smith|October 28th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards 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?

The Path to Transparency Conference

By Melody Smith|October 25th, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The 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.

Adventures of a TaxoTourist

By Melody Smith|October 25th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Adventures 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.

Workshop on Cloud Computing

By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on Workshop 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.

Best Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality

By Melody Smith|October 19th, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Best 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.