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Industry Standards |
By Marjorie M.K. Hlava
Chair, ASIDIC Standards Committee
As a voting member of NISO, ASIDIC represents the interests of its members throughout the year by monitoring standards. Broader participation by the members in general is needed in this increasingly complex area. This year our program will cover these general areas and other specifics when they are of interest to the membership.
The old standards consensus system is no longer the way things seem to be moving. How can we deal with those items affecting those of us who create, aggregate and disseminate information?
Standards of interest to NFAIS which are up for review in 2005 are:
The full text of these standards can be downloaded from the NISO website.
To be voted this year:
Robert Kahn is opening up his Digital Object Architecture to commercial users under an open source license: http://www.warren-news.com/internetservices.htm
Current NISO News is available at ...good tidbits in the newsletter
http://www.niso.org/news/newsline/NISONewsline-Feb2005.html
ISSN Revision: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/wg5.htm
SWAD—the Semantic Web initiative lead by European Union's Information Society Technologies program.
http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/73570
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP),
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/article/CA490061
TC 46/SC 4: Information and documentation - Technical interoperability
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TC 46/SC 8: Quality - Statistics and performance evaluation
TC 46/SC 9: Identification and description
TC 46/SC 11: Archives/records management
TC 46: Information and documentation
ISO/IEC Guide 74 for designing symbols that get the right message across to consumers worldwide:
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2005/Ref946.html
ISO prepares to launch development of standard on social responsibility:
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2005/Ref947.html
ISO/IEC Information Centre goes online: www.standardsinfo.net
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/archives/2004/Ref938.html
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
2005-02-16: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the URI Activity. The new URI Interest Group, chaired by Dan Connolly (W3C) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems), is chartered through 28 February 2007. The group reviews ongoing work related to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and helps to deploy quality implementations by maintaining testing materials. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public.
2005-02-16: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Replacing two separate CSS3 modules, the draft proposes CSS Level 3 functionality including borders consisting of images and backgrounds with multiple images. Visit the CSS home page.
The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released three updated Working Drafts. Web Services Addressing - Core enables message transmission through networks that include processing nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a transport-neutral manner. WSDL Binding defines how the core specification's properties are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). SOAP Binding defines their association to SOAP messages. Read about Web services.
2005-02-15: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals as a W3C Recommendation. The document allows Web applications to transmit and process the characters of the world's languages. Building on the Universal Character Set defined by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, it gives authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference for text manipulation. Read the press release and visit the Internationalization home page.
2005-02-14: Position papers are due 18 March for the W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability to be held 27-28 April in Washington, DC, USA. This workshop will bring together rule system vendors, rule users with a need for interoperability, and others to work toward developing a standard rule language, a key next step in promoting data exchange on the Web. Read about W3C workshops and visit the Semantic Web home page.
2005-02-14: The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. Designed for ease of use by developers and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation information to be specified for speech recognition and speech synthesis engines in voice browsing applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS document may be referenced from other markup languages such as SRGS and SSML. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
2005-02-11: The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released ten Working Drafts for the XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Please see the status section of each document for authorship and change history information. XML Query is an XML-aware programming language that can be optimized to run database-style searches, queries and joins over collections of documents, databases and XML or object repositories. Applications implementing XPath can address the nodes in an XML tree. XSLT 2 allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other documents. Visit the XML home page.
2005-02-10: Position papers are due 22 April for the W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services to be held 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria. Participants will discuss possible future W3C work on a comprehensive and expressive framework for describing all aspects of Web services. The workshop's goal is to envision more powerful tools and fuller automation using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL. Read about W3C workshops and visit the Web services home page.
2005-02-08: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of xml:id Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are invited through 10 March. Visit the XML home page.
2005-02-08: Bert Bos, Stéphane Boyera, Marie-Claire Forgue, Max Froumentin and Philipp Hoschka present at Hall 1, stand A24 at the 3GSM World Congress held 14 to 17 February in Cannes, France. "Our goal is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as it is from a desktop device," said Philipp Hoschka. Over 28,000 visitors will have a chance to see W3C efforts for the mobile Web in markup, style, graphics, multimodal interaction, device independence, voice browsing and multimedia messaging. Read about W3C at 3GSM and read the press release.
2005-02-01: The SYMM Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 25 February. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page.
2005-01-27: The XML Core Working Group has released Extending XLink 1.0 as a Working Group Note. The document describes changes that could be incorporated into an XLink Version 1.1 specification to address usability, dependence on annotations provided by external grammars, and interoperability. The Working Group plans no updates to this Note. Visit the XML home page.
2005-01-26: W3C is pleased to announce its support for two publications that are important for Web addressing and increase the international reach of the Web. The documents are coordinated efforts of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and W3C. Read the press release.
2005-01-25: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected David Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The Director also appointed Vincent Quint (INRIA) to the TAG; he will serve as co-Chair along with Tim Berners-Lee. Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), and Roy Fielding (Day Software). Created in 2001, the TAG documents principles of Web architecture and works with other groups to resolve architectural issues. Read the Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One and visit the TAG home page.
2005-01-25: The World Wide Web Consortium today released three W3C Recommendations to improve Web services performance by standardizing the transmission of large binary data. "Web services have just become faster and more usable," said Yves Lafon (W3C). Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page.
2005-01-18: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Voice Browser Activity. The Voice Browser Working Group, co-chaired by Jim Larson (Intel) and Scott McGlashan (HP), is chartered through 31 January 2007. Voice browsing includes Web interaction with key pads, spoken commands, listening to prerecorded speech, synthetic speech and music. The Activity is defining a suite of markup languages for dialog, speech synthesis, speech recognition, call control and other aspects of interactive voice response applications. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
2005-01-18: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction Activity. The Multimodal Interaction Working Group is chaired by Deborah Dahl and is chartered through 31 January 2007. The Activity extends user interaction with the Web to multiple modes such as GUI, speech, vision, pen, haptic interfaces, and gestures. Their work enables rich capabilities for mobile phones and other devices with limited resources, and for future generations of multimodal devices. Participation is open to W3C Members. Visit the multimodal interaction home page.
2005-01-18: The Device Independence Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Glossary of Terms used in the group's publications. The glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content for all Web access devices.
2005-01-18: The Device Independence Working Group has published Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence as a Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. This document explains the role of delivery context in achieving a device independent Web. The group plans no further changes. Visit the device independence home page.
2005-01-18: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
2005-01-13: Addressing comments received during the first Last Call, the Voice Browser Working Group has published a second Last Call Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome through 31 January. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
2005-01-11: W3C's Offices hold their annual meeting on 10-11 January in Sophia Antipolis, France. "Office representatives from five continents have gathered at W3C's host in France to discuss local issues, recruiting and Membership issues, Office events and outreach as they plan for 2005 and beyond," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page.
2005-01-07: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Internationalization Activity. The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group, chaired by Yves Savourel (Enlaso), is chartered with new work to develop elements and attributes to support document internationalization and localization. Formerly task forces, the Internationalization Core Working Group is chaired by Addison Phillips (webMethods) and the Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Working Group is chaired by Richard Ishida (W3C). All three Working Groups and the Internationalization Interest Group, chaired by Martin Dürst (W3C), are chartered through October 2006. Visit the Internationalization home page.
2005-01-07: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. This second edition is not a new version; its purpose is to correct errors in the SMIL 2.0 first edition as a convenience to readers. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page.
2005-01-04: The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P.