Thursday, February 13, 2003

Distributing authority helps cross-company projects succeed "...extended teaming is of invaluable benefit to the development process because it enables an enhanced design process, a stronger platform for maintenance and upgrade, and knowledge transfer between teams. But these benefits won’t come about if you don’t have clear lines of authority established to bring the project together in the first place..." 10:51:04 PM    comment [] XML-Journal - XML, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web Ayesha Malik, XML Journal 11:05:49 AM    comment [] Dublin Core Whew. You've just finished tagging your thousands of items in Dublin Core. Now you can relax, right? Wrong. There is a great deal afoot with Dublin Core. I confess, I'm not clear on all of it (and information on the web is basically impossible to obtain). The the long and the short of it is that Dublin Core is being "fast-tracked" to become a new ISO standard, "15836 The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set." That wouldn't be so back (except, of course, for the fact that you could now have to pay money to view the standard). But between Dublin Core 1.1 and the eventual ISO 15836 there are numerous changes. This link is to an email sent from Leif Andresen, chair of the DCMI Standards Interest Group. The ISO page on the initiative is here but the actual text is nowhere to be seen. The most recent version I can find (and which may be what is approved by ISO) is ANSI/NISO Z39.85, a 2001 version from the NISO website. That version will set you back $US 39. Now - was somebody saying something about open standards? Public domain? Oh yeah... By Leif Andresen, Catalogablog, February 3, 2003 10:19:47 AM    comment [] core set of weblog metadata "I am proposing a core set of weblog metadata, based primarily on Dublin Core elements. Since other weblog metadata efforts are stalled or fractured, I'm trying to pull everything together with (hopefully) well written specs, functioning software, and web pages. Here are the links: WMD: Core Weblog Metadata, the proposed core metadata elements, for describing the weblog itself, entries within the weblog and weblog authors ("creator", in Dublin Core terminology). QSM: Quick Structure Markup, a proposed standard for grouping and structuring metadata elements. The document also outlines the reasons why this type of group/structure mechanism is essential for describing metadata of any complexity. qsmparser.py: A python program designed next to sit next Mark Pilgrim's widely used rssparser. Not only does it understand QSM, it also understands (to varying degrees) WMDI, Blizg and GeoURL.org/ICBM metadata also. Template Rewriter: An online tool that recognizes many CMS templates and adds the appropriate markup for QSM/WMD. " 10:14:30 AM    comment []

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