Standards – Page 22

Adventures of a TaxoTourist

By Melody Smith | October 25, 2010

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 22, 2010

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 19, 2010

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.

Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task

By Melody Smith | September 28, 2010

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.

Multinational Community Progresses with Standards

By Melody Smith | September 27, 2010

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.

Linked Data, DOI, RDF, and Dublin Core

By Melody Smith | September 20, 2010 |

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.

Consortium Seeking Multilingual Web Standards

By Melody Smith | September 13, 2010

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.

Content Management System Goes Mobile

By Melody Smith | September 10, 2010

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.