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The OASIS Search Web Services TC has just put out the following document for public review (Nov 7- Dec 7, 2007):

Search Web Services v1.0 Discussion Document

• Editable Source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/search-ws/v1.0/DiscussionDocument.doc
• PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/search-ws/v1.0/DiscussionDocument.pdf
• HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/search-ws/v1.0/DiscussionDocument.html
  

From the OASIS announcement:

"This document: "Search Web Services Version 1.0 - Discussion Document - 2 November 2007", was prepared by the OASIS Search Web Services TC as a strawman proposal, for public review, intended to generate discussion and interest. It has no official status; it is not a Committee Draft. The specification is based on the SRU (Search Retrieve via URL) specification which can be found at http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/. It is expected that this standard, when published, will deviate from SRU. How much it will deviate cannot be predicted at this time. The fact that the SRU spec is used as a starting point for development should not be cause for concern that this might be an effort to rubberstamp or fasttrack SRU. The committee hopes to preserve the useful features of SRU, eliminate those that are not considered useful, and add features that are not in SRU but are considered useful. "

Posted by Tony Hammond at 05:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, Howard already blogged on Nascent last week about the STIX fonts (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange) being launched and now freely available in beta. And today the STM Association also have blogged this milestone mark. So, just for the record, I'm noting here on CrossTech those links for easy retrieval. As Howard says:

"I recommend all publishers download the fonts from the STIX web site at www.stixfonts.org today."

(And for those who want to see more of Howard, he can be found in interview here on the SIIA Executive FaceTime Webcast Series. :)

Posted by Tony Hammond at 11:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This message posted out yesterday on the dc-general list (with following extract) may be of interest:

"Public Comment on encoding specifications for Dublin Core metadata in HTML and XHTML

2007-11-05, Public Comment is being held from 5 November through 3 December 2007 on the DCMI Proposed Recommendation, "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" <http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/11/05/dc-html/> by Pete Johnston and Andy Powell. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-architecture.html> , including "[DC-HTML Public Comment]" in the subject line. Depending on comments received, the specification may be finalized after the comment period as a DCMI Recommendation."

Posted by Tony Hammond at 04:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)