Monday, March 31, 2008
JHOVE session at DLF
The schedule for the DLF Spring Forum includes a "JHOVE meeting for project participants." I assume that means a closed meeting, and I won't be at the forum, but it's good to hear that there's progress.
It's my understanding that there won't be a session on GDFR, though.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
A batch of documents from W3C
New from W3C in the past few days:
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources (working draft).
- Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Requirements Version 2.0 (first public working draft). This is relevant to XSL-FO, not XSLT.
- XML Signature Syntax and Processing (second edition, proposed edited recommendation).
- XML Query (XQuery) 1.1 Use Cases (working draft).
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 (3rd working draft).
- Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 (second last call public working draft, superseding the "first last call").
- Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 (working draft).
- XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 (working draft).
- XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Use Cases (working draft).
Monday, March 24, 2008
JHOVE on SourceForge
JHOVE is now in a CVS repository on SourceForge. There are still pieces (such as being able to download JHOVE directly from SourceForge) which remain to be done, but at least the source code is now in a publicly accessible repository. I haven't verified it as error-free yet.
Here are some useful URLs:
Labels: JHOVE
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Boycott WWW2008
In the light of China's recent outrages in Tibet -- not to mention its ongoing Web censorship -- I urge all who care about human liberty to boycott WWW2008 in Beijing.
The theme of the conference is "One World, One Web." China's Great Firewall is the antithesis of this claim.
I've left a comment to this effect at the conference workshop blog. Any bets on how long it stays up? It vanished some time this afternoon, within twelve hours of my posting it. I'm a little surprised it stayed up for the first hour. It's sad, though inevitable given the venue, that W3C is collaborating with Chinese censorship.
Labels: W3C
Thursday, March 06, 2008
OOXML and scripting
Rob Weir argues that scripting is inadequately defined in Office Open XML. Because of the vagueness of the specification, he argues, "not only is it impossible to have cross-platform interoperability of this feature, it is not even possible to implement a reasonable security policy to detect, scan or block macros. Even the location of the macro is outside the scope of the standard."
It's likely that Brian Jones will have a rejoinder. I'll link to it when it's available.
