Re: [ba-ohs-talk] OpenURL NISO development
Peter Jones wrote:
>
> (Found this whilst surfing from the Resources for Image-based
> Humanities Computing at http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/ )
>
> This might be of interest for online DKRs.
> OpenURL
> http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html
>
> "The proposed OpenURL standard is a syntax to create web-transportable
> packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such
> packages are at the core of context-sensitive or open link technology. By
> standardizing this syntax, the OpenURL will enable many other innovative
> user-specific services. (01)
This seems to have a great deal of overlap with the current OASIS Published
Subject Identifier Technical Committee (though PubSub doesn't include a
metadata container functionality). (02)
Murray (03)
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Murray Altheim, Staff Engineer <mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com>
Java and XML Software
Sun Microsystems, 1601 Willow Rd., MS UMPK17-102, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (04)
Ernst Martin comments in 1949, "A certain degree of noise in
writing is required for confidence. Without such noise, the
writer would not know whether the type was actually printing
or not, so he would lose control." (05)