The US Library of Congress Thomas project is making user-friendly, structured URLs available as permanent aliases for its legislation.
I have been pushing a similar approach, but taking it further, in the PRESTO approach.

Thirteen members of the Norwegian standards body’s technical committee walked out recently… If we take these 13, and subtract people who either work for competitors of Microsoft or affiliated with the NUUG/FOSS industry/community, we get…1 person (the esteemed Steve Pepper) by my count…

Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project’s mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold…

The classical approach to the data aspect of system design distinguishes conceptual, logical, and physical models. Models of each type or level are governed by metamodels that specify the kinds of concepts and constraints that can be used by each model; in most cases metamodels are accompanied by languages for describing models.

Contrary to popular opinion, anger is not in fact all that good for a writer - you write, but what you write usually falls into the kind of political diatribes favored by more radical members of fringe parties.

I presented by podcast to WG1 (which is the working group on schema languages) my suggested update to ISO Schematron.

We hear a lot of talk about Web 2.0, but has the financial sector even got to Web 1.0, really? Lets take two key things: first, that data interchange should be rich, and second that everything important should be identified. But unless there is an accounting standards emphasis towards objective valuation, we can have all the good standards for financial data interchange we like, and it we won’t have reduced society’s risk nor improved evidence-based management.

Publicly-traded companies spend enormous energies, resources, and dollars to get their financial reports out the door, only to see them pop up on the portal in simplified formats that don’t tell the story accurately. So getting the ‘canonical’ rendering into the hands of the consuming stakeholders is an important aspect of financial report. In the Internet age, it’s all about getting the ‘eyeballs on the glass’ approach - aka what our computer screens show us is what we believe, and enabling the applications we use to consume this content accurately is the key to successful business decisions. The XBRL technical community has addressed this issue in three approaches - presentation linkbases, iXBRL, and rendering linkbases.

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