Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Techweb > News > W3C Drafts On Semantic Web Specs Spark Debate > W3C Work On Semantic Web Sparks Debate > April 8, 2003 "...In taking the role of inventor, the W3C could eventually alienate companies looking for technology to solve today's integration problems. Emerging Web services standards, for example, are being deployed and are tying systems using modern technology based on extensible markup language (XML). "We've been talking about the Semantic Web since 2000, and other than making refinements on standards, I don't think we've gotten any closer to implementations," Schmelzer said. "Since 2000, Web services have emerged as a concept to something people are widely implementing." ... 10:27:17 PM    comment [] Cover Pages: AIIM Publishes Draft XML Standard for Interchange of Document Images and Related Metadata. "The Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) has announced the ballot results for a draft specification Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the Interchange of Document Images and Related Metadata. The draft standard "specifies methods for using XML for the interchange of metadata about image files, and the image files themselves. The standard is designed for use when an image is transferred between users, either within an organization or between organizations; the standardization of metadata permits the interchange to operate independently of the usage and storage on either side. XML is used to wrap the document content together with metadata that describes the package and the semantics of the contained image. If accepted by the AIIM working group, it will be proposed as the seed for an International Standard project within ISO TC171. This initial standard does not address XML for text files or any vertical industry XML definitions; it is be limited to document image files and will not address digital still images." Sections 10 and 11 of the draft present the XML DTD and Schema." 10:03:04 PM    comment [] ESW Wiki "While W3C has a formal recommendation track for creating standard specifications which fully answer questions within their scope, many frequently asked questions fall outside the scope of the specifications themselves. This Semantic Web Collaboratory is for connecting the folks that make the specs with the folks that build on them. " 3:07:28 PM    comment [] HenPlus "HenPlus is a SQL shell written in Java that works for any database that offers JDBC support. So basically any database. Why do we need this ? Any database comes with some shell, but all of them have missing features (and several shells are simply unusable). And if you work with several databases at once (if you are a developer, then you do this all the time), switching between these tools is tedious. " 3:03:20 PM    comment []

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