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Issue 12: December 1998

RSA: 8 December

The RSA Event was a great success with Jon Bosak giving an excellent talk on XML, highlighting the effect that the XLink and XPointer Recommendations will have. Below he shows a Californian company with its copy in XML and using XSL to style it in different newspaper styles.

Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak
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Chris Lilley (see below) later gave an overview of where scalable vector graphics activities have reached. The Web Profile for CGM is just about to be finalised and the first draft of SVG, the new XML DTD for scalable vector graphics, will be discussed at a meeting in San Jose just after the New Year.

Chris Lilley

Chris Lilley
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Tony Stuart of RivCom gave an entertaining talk on how RivCom are using XML to specify industrial data on a range of projects. Lynn Labieniec (below) from RivCom was one of the demonstrators along with staff from RAL, INRIA and VHL.

Lynn Labieniec

Lynn Labieniec
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We hope to have the slides for all the talks up on the Web after Christmas. Some are there already:

ttp://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/publications/1205/

W3C Membership Exceeds 300

Membership went through the 300 barrier in December with the number of members now standing at 304 and with a regional break down of:

Full Affiliate
Americas 43 141
Europe 27 57
Asia-Oceania 16 20

Recent new members are:

Metadata Matters: 10th March 1999

School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Metadata plays a crucial role in the identification, retrieval, and management of all digital assets. Yet this vital feature of the emerging electronic information landscape - the virtual space that we will all soon inhabit - has for a long time remained largely unknown, disregarded, and misunderstood. However, now there is a growing consensus amongst information professionals of all backgrounds, that metadata matters.

Generations of librarians have used metadata to catalogue collections of non-electronic materials. It is thanks to the existence of such catalogues that any of us can find a book, compact disk, or video in our local public library in a matter of minutes rather than days, and with a minimum of foreknowledge or expertise. But it is less clear if or how one should catalogue a multimedia CD-ROM or database, let alone an interactive electronic journal, or even an entire website!

The growing ubiquity of the internet is encouraging the creation and distribution of a range of new digital resources - electronic texts, images, audio, and video files - each of which presents new problems when considering the assertion of intellectual property rights, implementing charging models, access restrictions, and the like. Here again, metadata matters.

The BCS Electronic & Multimedia Publishing Specialist Group is planning to host a one-day meeting on all aspects of this fundamental topic - bringing together expert speakers from a range of disciplines and industries, to present their experiences of creating and exploiting electronic metadata. This unique event will interest anyone concerned with the development and use of digital assets, and provide a vital forum for the interchange of ideas and expertise.

contact:

David Penfold (Administrator, BCS EMPSG)
Edgerton Publishing Services
30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield HD3 3AD, UK
Tel 01484 519462; Fax 01484 451396; Mobile 0850 058544
E-mail: Penfold@eps-edge.demon.co.uk
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