More on XML in the Journal Publishing Process

Posted on May 17, 2003 by David

This article provides a good overview of the role XML can serve in the publishing process for scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals:Why STM Publishers Should Use XML.

Regular Expressions (Hi!, How are you?, Nice day?)

Posted on April 2, 2003 by David

Came across the Regular Expressions Library web site. It provides a searchable database of over 200 regular expressions. (Searching regular expressions is wonderfully self-referential somehow.)

It also provides web service access to the database.

XML for Contact Info

Posted on March 24, 2003 by David

For future reference:

Cover Pages: Markup Languages for Names and Addresses
Address Data Interchange Specification (ADIS) 01-1

XML-RPC for .Net

Posted on February 22, 2003 by David

XML-RPC.Net is a library with which to implement XML-RPC clients and services in .Net. This should save a lot of time for anyone trying to integrate .Net apps with existing services (such as some of the weblog APIs out there). Found via syndirella.

XML on the Hill

Posted on November 14, 2002 by David

Drafting Legislation Using XML at the U.S. House of Representatives

At this point, the House has been using the XML authoring environment for House-only resolutions since January 2001 and began drafting bills in XML in September 2002. The House plans to draft over 95% of introduced bills in XML by January 2003.

Check out xml.house.gov to see what the U.S. legislature has been up to with XML. If you are in DC, there is a presentation next week about their efforts as well.

Zthes in RDF

Posted on October 10, 2002 by David

From a post on the IA-CMS list: Thesaurus::RDF — The RDF Thesaurus descriptor standard for the Zthes thesaurus format.

XFML Core is Final

Posted on October 8, 2002 by David

XFML Core 1.0 is final. Congrats!

DTD Example for Scholarly Journals

Posted on October 5, 2002 by David

article.dtd is an XML document type definition for use with scientific and scholarly articles.

I’ve been investigating xml for publishing scholarly journals off-and-on over the past year and this was a recent find. It seems like our organization is getting close to the point where we will be able to begin moving to xml as a long-term storage format for our academic journal content. This will open up worlds of opportunity for us in the re-use and publishing of that content.

RSS Job Feeds

Posted on October 4, 2002 by David

Travis Owens is taking a crack at developing an RSS job feed module.

Update:
Here is an RSS job feed for the Turning Stone Casino created by Travis (without the proposed module). This is the first operational rss job feed that I have seen.

Providing an RSS job feed makes a lot of sense for employers that typically have lots of job openings. People interested in working at the company can subscribe and watch for one that matches what their abilities. Good for current employees too.

Travis also developed this headlines news feed for IndianCountry.com.