Monthly Archives: December 2005

MARC Transliteration

Posted on 22 December 2005 by

I got some great suggestions from my earlier posting which really shows the value of writing about stuff earlier rather than later. one comment in particular from Harry Chen got me started on a particular track: Here is what I … Continue reading →

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Transliteration or Interpretation

Posted on 21 December 2005 by

When creating RDF schemas based on existing data formats you soon hit the inevitable decision point of whether to simply produce an RDF description of the syntactic format or to interpret it and produce a semantic model of the format. … Continue reading →

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Change Policies for Namespaces

Posted on 17 December 2005 by

A good practice from the current namespace state draft from the W3C tag: Specifications that define namespaces SHOULD explicitly state their policy with respect to changes in the names defined in that namespace. I need to implement this in the … Continue reading →

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SOAP Destined to A Life of Obscurity

Posted on 16 December 2005 by

This piece from Dare Obasanjo hot on the heels of the UDDI public registry closure adds weight to my suspicion that SOAP is finally being sidelined into a niche activity. When I worked on the XML team, I used to … Continue reading →

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